ERS COPD Research Award 2007
Dr Morten Dahl, Herlev University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark, and Simonetta Baraldo, Padova, Italy, won this year’s annual awards of The European Respiratoy Society (ERS), which Read more …
Award for HIV monitoring
The CyFlow and CyLab technique (e.g. for economical CD4/CD8 counting in HIV monitoring in developing countries) has received 1st prize in the Innovations Award 2003, given by the Read more …
All in one
Datex-Ohmeda’s S/5 ADU Carestation combines an anaesthesia machine’s electronically controlled gas delivery and agent vaporisation with patient monitoring and information Read more …
US skin refrigerants for EU
Ethyl Chloride skin refrigerants made by the Gebauer Company, of Cleveland, Ohio (established over 100 years ago) have received the CE Mark of approval. Read more …
Safer canes and crutches
The biomechanical features of the human ankle inspired the design of a new safety tip called Fedrofuss. Read more …
Stimulating cell metabolism
G-ogo sport, a new innovation from Dr. Goettfert Systems, uses a pulsing magnetic field to stimulate cell metabolism. Read more …
Neuromed buyout
Germany - Diagnostic imaging equipment handler Neuromed Solutions GmbH (est. 1993) has split from the firm’s former managing company UMS Neuromed AG. Read more …
Watercone - the winner
Stephan Augustin (36), a Munich-based industrial designer, has scooped the international iF Design Award for his ‘Watercone’.
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Hygiene: pre-surgical hair removal
Preoperative removal of hair from an operative site is important measures for avoiding postoperative wound infections. Read more …
CT and MRI-compatible compression harness
The DynaWell L-Spine, a compression harness that axially loads the lumbar spine in the supine position, has no magnetic parts, so can be used with most CT and MRI scanners.
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The Fresenius Inventors’ Prize
If something doesn’t fit we make it fit, and if it doesn’t exist we invent it: Pragmatism combined with imagination and idealism are the foundation stones of groundbreaking Read more …
Brothers receive DGAI’s Thieme Teaching Award
The 5,000 euros award was presented to two brother in recognition of their efforts to organise emergency medical seminars held by students for students.
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Sepsis research honoured
Germany - The third Hugo Schottmüller Prize, awarded by the German Sepsis Society (DSG), has been presented to Dr Marc W Merx, of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technical Read more …
Respected not rejected
The Hartmann European Care Award 2004 has been presented to Dagmar Erdkönig, Petra Makara and Claudia Reicher of Austria.
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Christiane Reimann Prize
Switzerland - Dr Margretta Madden Styles, a nurse-scholar recognised as an international leader in nursing education, regulation and credentialing, is to be presented with the Read more …
Paediatrician is European of the Year
Russia - Leonid Roshal, 71, paediatrician and head of the Moscow Scientific Research Institute for Emergency Children’s Surgery and Traumatology, has received the Reader’s Digest Read more …
HITACHI to showcase latest technologies at Paris event and to present the group seminar "What's next in Healthcare" on May 21, from 10 am