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Thoughts about xenotransplantation using porcine organs

David Talbot The use of xenotransplantation goes back a long way. Blood transfusions from animals were tried in the 1600’s, which was probably better than the alternatives (beer, milk etc.) and survival probably depended on whether or not the transfusion was a small...

AGMS/DEÄV Twitter Account

Hello Everyone As some of you already know, I have offered to take on the AGMS/DEAV Twitter account. The account was set up by Tim Killeen in 2012. I am by no means a social media expert, but I do have some experience of Twitter through my role as president of a...

Covid-19 – from a medical translator’s perspective

No event in recent history has had such a profound impact on medicine as the current global pandemic – nor has any disease coined so many new words or expressions (neologisms) in every language. A comparison between the way that German and English terms have evolved,...