COVID-19 Lecture: High Seroprevalence, Drastic Decline of Incidence and Low Infection Fatality Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Children and Adults in the Ski Resort Ischgl, Austria
NIH COVID-19 Scientific Interest Group In early March 2020, a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak at a ski resort in Ischgl, Austria, initiated the spread of SARS-CoV-2 throughout Austria and Northern Europe. Thousands of infections can be traced back to Ischgl. In a recent study by Medical University of Innsbruck investigators, 42.4 percent of those living in Ischgl were shown to be carrying the new coronavirus antibodies, indicating they had been infected in the COVID-19 pandemic. Between April 21 and 27, a cross-sectional epidemiologic study targeting the full population of Ischgl (n= app. 1,867), of which 79 percent could be included ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video

Value-based healthcare: How will we get there?
Hans Aubauer, general director of the Social Security Service of Austria, explains how his country is incentivizing the clinical and the patient community to improve care quality. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 18, 2018 Category: Information Technology Tags: Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Quality and Safety Source Type: video

Aneuploidy and Cancer - A Complicated Relationship
NCI's Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Eminent Lecture Dr. Amon received her B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship with Ruth Lehmann at the Whitehead Institute and was subsequently named a Whitehead Fellow for three years. In 1999, she joined the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and the Department of Biology where she holds the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Chair for Cancer Research. Dr. Amon ’ s honors include the 2003 Alan T. Waterman Award, the 2007 Paul Marks Prize, the 2008 National Academy of Sciences Molecular Biology Award, and the 2013 Erns...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video