https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Austria’s Health Minister, Sabine Oberhauser (SPÖ), has been diagnosed with abdominal cancer. In a press release she announced that she will start chemotherapy on Friday and that her doctors have said she has a good chance of making a full recovery. https://www.thelocal.at/20150206/austrias-health-minister-diagnosed-with-cancer Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:24:00 +0100 austrias-health-minister-diagnosed-with-cancer Vasyl Novytskyi, a 77-year-old chemist from Ukraine, appeared in court in Vienna on Tuesday for allegedly selling an unauthorized and untested 'cure' for cancer. https://www.thelocal.at/20150128/ukrainian-chemist-lands-in-court-for-cancer-cure Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:50:00 +0100 ukrainian-chemist-lands-in-court-for-cancer-cure A new study carried out by Florian Kocher of the Innsbruck Medical University together with the Tyrol Cancer Registry shows that smoking is one of the most important reasons for lung cancer, it was revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.at/20150114/lung-cancer-link-to-smoking-confirmed Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:12:00 +0100 lung-cancer-link-to-smoking-confirmed An Austrian man was arrested by the Cobra armed police in Linz on Tuesday morning for making threats against the life of his doctor, after the latter misdiagnosed an allergic condition as pancreatic cancer. https://www.thelocal.at/20140910/death-threat-triggered-by-misdiagnosis Wed, 10 Sep 2014 11:54:00 +0200 death-threat-triggered-by-misdiagnosis