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Gastric bypass undoes diabetes symptoms
French findings support the notion that gastric bypass can rapidly reverse diabetes symptoms– a side-effect that lap-band surgery does not show. The benefit results from a Read more …
Hip and knee replacements – which technique is the right one?
Joint replacemtents are daily hospital routine. A first national study in England gives information about the outcome of the often performed hip resurfacing and unicondylar knee Read more …
Telemedicine for operating theatres
In all major projects with lots of participants, success comes from timely planning between every department and company involved Read more …
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Following 12 years of development, German surgeons and technicians have successfully implanted the world’s first vision prosthesis in six blind patients. Read more …
Childcare helps women surgeons
Ways to meet the needs of women surgeons who are mothers yet, like their male colleagues, also work night shifts and carry out lengthy procedures, was again discussed at the 125th Read more …
Surgeons urged to ‘think twice’ before giving blood transfusions
The USA’s National Institutes of Health aims to review blood transfusion safety Read more …
Vienna: New IT system reduces surgery waiting times
Approximately 150,000 surgical interventions are performed every year in the hospitals of Vienna. Efficient coordination of OR schedules in the individual clinics as well as the Read more …
Hemicorporectomy
Czech Republic – The second successful hemicorporectomy (translumbar amputation) was carried out several months ago by surgeon Frantisek Antos and team at the Bulovka Faculty Read more …
Treatment of Bladder Cancer: Radiotherapy versus Surgery
According to a study recently published by Cancer Research UK scientists the survival rates of bladder cancer patients treated with radiotherapy are the same as those of patients Read more …
MRI techniques to replace liver biopsy
As reported in the January issue of Hepatology, MRI imagery is emerging as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic fibrosis. It could eventually help Read more …
Hemicorporectomy
The second successful hemicorporectomy has been done several months ago by Frantisek Antos and his surgical team from Faculty hospital Bulovka.
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Innovative solution for hearing loss
Otologics’ Carina could improve the quality of life for patients suffering from hearing loss. The fully implantable hearing device uses a transducer to move the middle ear bones - Read more …
Adipose specialists
The German Adiposity Centre, Red Cross Clinic, treats adiposity patients interdisciplinary. Read more …
Radiofrequency ablation in breast cancer
By Beate M Stoeckelhuber MD, Associate Professor and Radiology (Interim) Director at the Department of Radiology, Luebeck University, Germany, with Smaragda Kapsimalakou MD, also Read more …
Cops hunt ‘cash for ops’ surgeons
France – The country’s health ministry is facing growing calls for a full public inquiry after allegations that surgeons have been demanding huge cash payments from patients keen Read more …
Osteoporosis screening at the dentist?
Researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester developed a technique to identify osteoporosis from ordinary dental x-rays. The software-based method has Read more …
Leica MDRS3 for microsurgery videos and stills
The compact, medically tested Leica Medical Digital Recording System MDRS3 from Leica Microsystems allows video and uncompressed still images recording from multiple cameras Read more …
Carotid stenting suffers a setback
The debate between carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) - the surgical approach - for treating a narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck to prevent Read more …
Biotechnology for regenerative surgery
Tissue engineering caused a stir at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Germany Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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Devlin respond to growing demand in Europe for infection control products, offering their “CleanKey” infection control keyboard in a variety of European languages. …
Knowing that good hygiene practice is critical to the prevention of cross contamination, New Style Healthcare services are introducing a range of unique hospital furniture to the …
To fight hospital infections and increasingly resistant bacteria Normeditec has developed Toul Mobile Laminar Airflow …
bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics (IVD), offers the most comprehensive diagnostic solution on the market to help hospitals and healthcare …