Slowly but surely the long dark winter months come to end – fortunately, since this season is reason enough for many people to sink into melancholy. But winter depression and tiredness could actually have a medical reason, namely vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is in short supply in winter because people need UVB rays from the sun on […]
Jessica Rühs is medical technical assistant (MTA) at EUROIMMUN and likes that the company helps her to combine her professional career and her family. Please introduce yourself shortly and let us know how you came to EUROIMMUN. My name is Jessica and I did a vocational training in Schwerin to be a medical technical laboratory
There are diseases whose pathogenesis has been known for decades. The actual cause, however, remains a secret despite intensive research. For decades, it has been known that deposits of immune complexes are formed along the basal membrane of the glomerulus in membranous nephropathy (previously known as membranous glomerulonephritits), causing tissue inflammation and impairment of kidney filtration. But the antigen which is targeted by
Every once in a while, physicians face a patient with rather unspecific symptoms of exhaustion, sore muscles and joints, bad headache and sometimes even neurological deficits and paralysis. Only if the patient remembers or if the physician explicitly asks, may the cause be rapidly found: a tick bite – an indication that the person may be infected with Borrelia and is suffering from
