Diseases
07/01/2008
Russias specialist wound surgeon
A meeting with Dr Valerij Mitish was difficult to arrange every day hes at a different Moscow hospital. …
07/01/2008
WMA gains funding to support TB training course
Pharma company Eli Lilly has increased an existing partnership with the World Medical Association (WMA) by granting c. 646,505 euros to expand online training courses for …
06/30/2008
Be prepared for the pandemic flu
The next pandemia will come - rather sooner than later. The respiratory protection of frontline staff is a major part of healthcare facilities' preparation. To assist hospitals, …
06/26/2008
How measles virus spread in its host
Every kindergarten undergoes it several times a year: the German measles. Nobody knew exactly how measles enter the body. But it has been thought they come through the surface of …
06/24/2008
Emergency rise for child diabetes
Since 2002 the number of children in England needing hospital care for complications of diabetes has risen about approximately 25 percent. The Patient group Diabetes UK blames …
06/17/2008
A survey in the NHS shows lack in infection control standards
The NHS is still suffering from wide variations in infection control standards, according to a survey of health staff in the UK. The study carried out by the watchdog body the …
06/03/2008
Indias world experts on TB
Every three minutes, two people living in India die of tuberculosis. This equates to approximately 370,000 deaths each year, and a staggering economic toll: an estimated US$300 …
05/15/2008
Nurses receive award for their work in tuberculosis
By putting the World TB Day slogan I am stopping TB into action, 11 nurses have earned the 2008 ICN/Lilly Award, for their outstanding work in fighting tuberculosis (TB) and …
04/30/2008
Global perspectives on diabetes
Despite Hurricane Amma storming over Prague, hundreds of medical specialists paid little attention when they attended the 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologists …
04/30/2008
Numerous measles cases in Salzburg
Austria - An unusually high number of measles cases is currently causing concern amongst the public as well as health officials. Presumed to have originated in a private school in …
04/30/2008
Inhaled TB vaccine
USA - A new tuberculosis vaccine successfully tested at the University of North Carolina (UNC) is easier to administer and store and just as effective as one commonly used …
04/30/2008
The Berlin TB Symposium
The WHO-Euro region ranges from Portugal to the East Asian parts of Russia, including Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. Because of the increasing numbers of tuberculosis and …
04/30/2008
Alarming TB cases in Austria
A third of the worlds population is infected with the bacterium Myobacterium tuberculosis which infects around nine million people annually. …
04/30/2008
Diabetics and drug-eluting stents
Boston Scientific Corporation has announced results from a pooled analysis of patients from its TAXUS IV and TAXUS V randomised clinical trials to compare the safety and efficacy …
02/22/2008
Successful weight control via Text Messaging
A highly innovative scheme to use mobile technology to obtain a patients weight has proved success in Hammersmith & Fulham PCT. The recent scheme found that by using iPLATO …
02/22/2008
Type 2 diabetes driving epidemic
Type 2 diabetes poses one of the greatest public health threats of the 21st century. The majority of the western world is in the grips of a diabetes epidemic driven by type 2 …
12/18/2007
Clean hands to reduce nosocomial infections
The project Clean Hands is Germanys contribution to the WHO initiative Clean care is safe care. Clean Hands aims at improving hand hygiene in German hospitals in …
11/30/2007
CLINICIP
Presented during a symposium at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, in Berlin, the European CLINICIP research project aims to develop a method to improve glycaemic control during intensive …
11/16/2007
German company introduces a novel way to store blood sugar results
Heidelberger-Medical-Marketing GmbH (HMM) presented the first CE-Certified and EU-Registered blood glucose meter for self-monitoring with Bluetooth technology, the smartLABgenie …
11/16/2007
A new scientific association promotes use in mainstream medicine
Enzymes are biocatalysts that control the different metabolic processes of living organisms. These range from digestion to the copying of genetic information. …
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