Keywords: Therapy
03/06/2010
The two faces of HIV/AIDS in the brain
The Opening Lecture at ECR always draws immense attention. On March 4th, it was the “First Lady of Radiology” as Congress President M. Szczerbo-Trojanowska called her, …
01/26/2010
Treatment beyond anti-infectives
Professor Norbert Suttorp and his team at the Clinic for Infectology and Pneumonology, Charité University Hospital Berlin, have been working on the understanding of the basic …
01/26/2010
Screening and colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is a suitable target for screening when it has a relatively high incidence – the second highest cancer incidence among women and third among men in Europe – …
01/25/2010
Italy’s first proton therapy centre
Agenzia Provinciale Per la Protonterapia (ATreP) has signed a contract with Ion Beam Applications S.A. (IBA), based in Luvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, for the installation of a proton …
01/12/2010
Hot News on Lymphoma
The so-called lymphoma, which are cancers of the immune system, originate in white blood cells. Pathological B cells, for instance, are responsible for the "diffuse large B cell …
11/21/2009
Rehabilitation
NuStep Recumbent Cross Trainers were developed by exercise physiologists to help people stay in motion regardless of their physical conditions. …
11/21/2009
Wound healing
The new Traumastem biodress is the world’s first oxidised cellulose preparation to treat acute and chronic wounds, its Czech manufacturer Bioster a.s. reports. …
11/21/2009
Aneurysm - Coil, surgery or clip?
A young singer leans against the mixing desk in a recording studio in a laid-back manner. She listens to songs just recorded for her new album, moving her lips to the sound. …
11/21/2009
Simultaneous hot/cold and electrotherapy
ELFcare, which simultaneously uses hot/cold and electrotherapy to treat acute and chronic pain, is a new innovation from the Israeli firm Mediseb, which was set up in 2000 to …
11/18/2009
E-learning for SERVO-i with NAVA
NAVA is a new mechanical ventilation method in which the ventilator is controlled directly by the patient's neural breath control, and is incorporated in Maquet´s Servo-i system. …
11/18/2009
Integrated diagnostics and therapy in oncology
Cancer imaging is one of the most promising medical fields. Hybrid technologies, such as PET/CT or future MRI/PET, are the tools radiologists and oncologists use to gain ever …
11/16/2009
The biology of cancers
Cancer research is progressing rapidly. For a large part, biology contributes to its most significant advances, which aim to renew the whole model of cancer care. …
11/02/2009
Taking part in clinical trials is good for health
Patients with chronic heart failure who agree to take part in clinical trials have a better prognosis than those who do not, according to a study reported in the November European …
10/29/2009
A Scaffold to regenerate lost bones and tissue
Mother Nature has provided the lizard with a unique ability to regrow body tissue that is damaged or torn - if its tail is pulled off, it grows right back. She has not been quite …
10/27/2009
New horizons in Nuclear Medicine therapy
Radionuclide therapy has been rapidly developing for the last 20 years, due to the availability of new carrier molecules and radionuclides. For some years the clinical efficacy …
10/15/2009
Nobel scientist urges wider vaccination against HPV infection
A global vaccination programme against human papilloma virus (HPV), to include boys as well as girls, could lead to eradication of the virus and virtual disappearance of cervical …
10/15/2009
Gynaecological cancer treatment enters new era of patient-tailored care
Advances in cancer prevention and treatment reported at this week´s premier European congress for specialists in gynaecological cancers show that care is being more effectively …
10/07/2009
Conoxia medizinischer Sauerstoff von PanGas
Auf der diesjährigen gemeinsamen Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Intensivmedizin (SGI), der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (SGN), …
09/23/2009
ECCO 15 and 34th ESMO Multidisciplinary Congress unites European Oncology
The first joint congress ECCO 15 ESMO 34 of the European CanCer Organisation (ECCO) and the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is taking place this week in Berlin. …
09/16/2009
Colorectal cancer today and tomorrow
Colorectal cancer (CRC) jointly describes cancers of the colon and rectum. Worldwide, CRCs are among the most common cancers. In Europe and the USA the occurrence of CRCs are …
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