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Alpine Medicine Newsletters

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Exclusive to members – the ÖGAHM magazine with current and informative articles on alpine and high altitude medicine

Current Issue

Alpine Medicine Newsletter

No. 75 / August 2026

The Alpine Medical Newsletter is published twice a year, in February and August, exclusively for ÖGAHM members. It is the joint publication of ÖGAHM and BExMed.

All issues of the newsletters are available for ÖGAHM members to read and download in the members’ area.

Newsletter
Contributions

Whether congress reports, accounts of exciting mountaineering expeditions, or case reports from alpine or high altitude medicine – whatever interests you will also interest the majority of newsletter readers.

Please send your contributions directly to simon.woyke@i-med.ac.at.

Newsletter Contributions Welcome!

Our goal remains to keep the Alpine Medicine Newsletters concise and competent. This requires a regular selection of contributions to reach the editorial team. Therefore, we invite all members as well as non-members to submit articles.

The following contributions may be published:
  • Medical and sports science articles from all areas of alpine and high altitude medicine
  • Related topics with medical relevance such as meteorology, geology, botany
  • Interesting and practice-relevant case reports
  • Course and travel reports with relevant reference to alpine and high altitude medicine practice
If you are planning to write or submit an article for the Alpine Medicine Newsletter:

Please contact our editorial team, Simon Woyke, by email: simon.woyke@i-med.ac.at

We request adherence to the author guidelines, which you will receive upon contact and can also find here.

Submitted articles will be reviewed by the editorial team. The editorial team reserves the right, after reviewing submitted articles, not to publish contributions or to publish them after revision.

We look forward to your contributions,
the editorial team Kathrin Ebinger, Raimund Lechner, Simon Woyke and Beatrix Schobersberger