An interdisciplinary working group headed by Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerold Holzer and Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Christine Mannhalter, who both work at MedUni Vienna, has been able to prove that the connection between vitamin K and bone density can be negatively influenced by mutations in a recently discovered gene. This finding could change future therapy decisions for affected risk groups.

Until the 1990s HIV infection was still seen as a death sentence, but today more than 90 percent of patients are treated successfully. It is, however, difficult to treat "late presenters", those people who are unaware of their disease for a long time. We interviewed Aids specialist Prof. Armin Rieger on this and other questions associated with the theme of HIV/Aids in Austria.

After a two-year break, today Federal Minister Beatrix Karl, Rector Wolfgang Schütz and the Head of Department Univ. Prof. Dr. Daniele U. Risser officially opened the newly renovated Forensic Medicine Department. Three hundred to four hundred autopsies will be carried out here each year on behalf of the Vienna Public Prosecution Department.

More than 25% of applying study candidates did not turn up for today's EMS test in Vienna. On account of the record figure of more than 6,000 registrations, MedUni Vienna had to hire two locations in advance.