How do education, occupation, and income affect the care of people with cancer? And what financial consequences can a cancer diagnosis have? These are the questions addressed by the “Cancer and Poverty” grant program of German Cancer Aid.…

In this retrospective episode, host Rasmus Cloes and Christoph Wellbrock discuss the opportunities and risks of digital offerings for children and adolescents. They talk about well-child checkups and health data, platforms that capture our…

Live Podcast at Karlchen: How Patients Are Helping Shape the Future of Medicine

How can research and development in the healthcare sector be better aligned with people’s needs? This question was the focus of the live podcast “Digital…

Beverage Tax: Why the Sugar Tax Isn't Strict Enough

Anyone buying a soda in the United Kingdom today often doesn't even notice that the “sugar tax” is having an effect. Many beverages haven't become significantly more expensive—they simply…

Heidelberg/Bremen – The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS plan to collaborate more closely. To this end, both institutions have signed a memorandum of…

G-BA Lowers the Age Limit for Mammography Screening to 45: Experts See Benefits for Younger Women

In the future, women aged 45 to 49 will also be able to participate in mammography screening. The Joint Federal Committee (G-BA) has lowered…

Smartwatches count our steps, apps promise to help us lead healthier lives, and electronic health records are designed to consolidate important health data. Digital applications and AI are also being used in the field of nursing. But when…

Lifestyle Isn't Everything: Why Men Get Cancer More Often Than Women

Even when factors such as diet and smoking are taken out of the equation, a significant difference remains. Here's why.

The Australian-German SISTAQUIT collaboration has received the 2026 SIRC Mission Award. The partners adapted a program to protect pregnant women and newborns from tobacco smoke for the German context and tested it in Bremen. The initiative…

Host Rasmus Cloes speaks with Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich from the Pharmaconutrition Research Group at the Institute for Nutritional Medicine at the UKSH in Lübeck about nutrition myths online and the efforts to combat them. He explains why…