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4th Annual Meeting 2016

On March 11th 2016, the 4th DO-HEALTH Annual Meeting was held at the University of Zurich Partners and collaborators met at the Waid Forum in Zurich to discuss the progress and next steps of DO-HEALTH data collection and analyses. The coordinator of DO-HEALTH, Prof. Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, informed that in March …

Christmas Card Design 2015

This year the DO-HEALTH coordinating team asked the DO-HEALTH Seniors in Zurich to help with the 2015 DO-HEALTH Christmas Card design. We have received many beautiful designs, which we want to present on our website. Many thanks to the artists! This is the design that was chosen for the DO-HEALTH Christmas …

3rd Annual Meeting 2015

On February 5th the researchers of the DO-HEALTH study met to celebrate the 2157 DO-HEALTH seniors enrolled into the DO-HEALTH trial! A big thank you to all DO-HEALTH seniors who are so excited about been part of DO-HEALTH and contribute so much to our knowledge about good health at higher …

November 2014: we celebrate 100% recruitment!!

News: On November 28th, the last DO-HEALTH senior entered DO-HEALTH — now 2157 DO-HEALTH seniors participate in DO-HEALTH All 2157 participation slots are taken at the Zurich, Basel, Geneva, Innsbruck, Toulouse,  Berlin and Coimbra site since November 28th 2014.   We congratulate the DO-HEALTH teams           …

2014 – DO-HEALTH Public Event Zurich

Der DO-HEALTH Öffentlichkeitsanlass am 28. März 2014 an der Universität Zürich “Gleichgewicht halten und Stürze vermeiden” wurde von über 450 interessierten Senioren und Seniorinnen besucht! Für eine Videozusammenfassung der wichtigsten Empfehlungen der Experten — bitte hier klicken. Für eine Zusammenfassung “Gleichgewicht halten und Stürze vermeiden” des Öffentlichkeitsanlasses 2014 — bitte …

2nd Annual Meeting 2014

On January 30th 2014, DO-HEALTH Partners and Collaborators met at the  University of Zurich (Congress Forum Waid City Hospital – Zurich) Click here for the news report by the IOF (International osteoporosis Foundation)  Click here to review the program of the meeting with all partners and key note speakers Group …

DO-HEALTH partners build clinical network — Geriatric Traumatology

On January 13/14 – 2014, the DO-HEALTH team from the University Hospital of Zurich travelled to the DO-HEALTH team at the University Hospital of Innsbruck. The goal of the site visit was to experience the interdisciplinary pioneer work of Prof. Michael Blauth  (DO-HEALTH partner) and his team including Traumatologists, Geriatricians, Anesthesiologists …

IOF press release on DO-HEALTH

On September 10th IOF published this press release on DO-HEALTH Read here or go to the IOF website: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/do-health-multi-centre-clinical-trial-healthy-ageing-achieves-first-milestone DO-HEALTH a multi-center clinical trial on healthy ageing achieves first milestone Europe’s largest healthy ageing study – DO-HEALTH – which aims to provide evidence for the safety of three simple preventive …