Dark chocolate consumption protects from cardiovascular diseases but underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Research from the Universities of Bern and Zürich and the University Hospital Bern (Inselspital) suggests that a single intake of half a bar of dark chocolate with high cocoa content…

During a viral infection, immune cells control the blood stem cells in the bone marrow and therefore also the body's own defences. These recent findings by Bernese researchers could allow for new forms of therapy, such as for bone marrow diseases.

When tumour cells no longer degrade themselves, cancer may develop. Using black skin cancer as an example, Bern Researchers have now shown that a protein plays an important role in the process of degradation of tumour cells. By reactivating this degradation therapeutically, you can virtually force tumours to…

Last generation drug-eluting stents are the safest and most effective therapy for percutaneous coronary revascularization in female heart patients. This was demonstrated today in a large-scale analysis by the Department of Cardiology at Inselspital.

Hope for hand amputees: researchers at Inselspital and the University of Bern have successfully tested a new method for local immunosuppression.

Parkinson’s disease can be treated with deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the very advanced stage when patients develop medically refractory fluctuations and dyskinesia. A new publication suggests that the treatment is better than medical treatment already at an earlier stage.

To date, hepatitis C (HCV) was believed to be almost exclusively transmitted through direct contact with infected blood. Scientists in Bern now demonstrated that the most likely cause of the epidemic increase in infections in specific groups of people is sexual transmission.

These are the main results of an international study involving more than 50,000 adults on 4 continents, published in the renowned medical journal The Archives of Internal Medicine in April 2012, together with an editorial and an online interview of Prof. Dr. med. Nicolas Rodondi from Inselspital, Bern.

Parents of infants born prematurely are under a great deal of stress. Bern University Hospital is to offer a special programme sourced from the USA that prepares them for the challenges ahead.