13-year old from Delmenhorst wins a bicycle

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Auf dem 4. Symposium für Substanzkonsum und -missbrauch unter Studierenden in Europa, das am 26. und 27. Juni am Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie - BIPS in Bremen…

Health Risk Nutritional Poverty - the Unrecognized Reality in our Affluent Society

Professor Hajo Zeeb, head of department “Prevention and Evaluation” at BIPS, will support the international online journal PLOS ONE as a scientific editor. The largest global scientific open-access journal was founded in 2006 and today…

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety has appointed Professor Hajo Zeeb, head of department "Prevention and Evaluation" at BIPS, as an expert to the United Nations Scientific…

Lecture by Professor Kate Hunt on Scottish Health Study

Professional musicians are four times more likely to suffer from hearing disorders and have a 57 percent higher risk of tinnitus than the general public. This was shown in the study "Incidence and relative risk of hearing disorders in…

The Federal Ministry of Health has re-appointed Prof. Edeltraut Garbe as a member of the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO). The appointment is for 3 years and will begin on February 15, 2014.

STIKO develops recommendations for…

Television viewing and other screen activities seem to have substantial effects on not only young children’s consumption of sugary drinks but also on increased BMI and obesity. This is the conclusion of a new study on 11,000 children in…