The University of Debrecen achieved first place in Life Sciences and second in Medicine among national institutions on the 2019 lists of the Round University Ranking (RUR) published on Monday. In the global rankings UD has made it to the top 350 in both areas.
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Arieh Warshel, a worlwide-renowned biochemist, has been the first to win the University of Debrecen Science Impact Award (uDEsia) of UD. The Nobel Prize laureate researcher received the award from rector Zoltán Szilvássy on 29 March.
A group of students from the US have arrived at the Faculty of Health of UD to study Hungarian social and healthcare services. The 15 students learned about the academic, talent development and international research programmes of the faculty on Monday.
Dual education in the Social Worker bachelor programme, Nursing programme at correspondence training – novelties at the Faculty of Health of the University of Debrecen. European-level education and excellent career opportunities await the prospective students of the campus in Nyíregyháza.
The Faculty of Health of the University of Debrecen offers a master’s programme that is unique in Europe. The healthcare social worker programme was launched in 2017, and is already very popular.
The latest methods in the diagnosis and therapy of multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease were discussed by Hungarian and foreign neurologists in Debrecen last week. At the conference the worl-class stroke care at the Neurology Clinic of the University of Debrecen was discussed, too.
Until now, only cardio training has been recommended to older people. However, according to new research of the University of Debrecen, weight training, if done correctly, can also bring huge benefits over 60 years of age. Sport plays important part in the prevention of various age-related diseases.
The number of those dying from heart attack has shrunk by two thirds in the last 20 years – we learned at the press conference of the 23rd Cardiological Days in Debrecen on Thursday. About 6-700 patients with acute heart attack are treated at the catheter laboratory of the University of Debrecen.
The Department of Hematology of the Clinical Center has been added sterile wards and it has also received state-of-the-art medical equipment recently. The new BMT unit may significantly improve the life expectancy of hematological patients and make the national waiting lists shorter in the future.
State-of-the-art quality medical hand instruments, offered by Medicor Kéziműszer Zrt. for free, provide substantial help in the practical programs of first-year students of the University of Debrecen in medicine and dentistry. This year, the students received as many as 764 practicing sets.