![Photo](/media/story/487/thumbnail.jpg)
Proton therapy: under construction
The positive effects of proton rays have been known for years. However, Germany still lacks institutions that utilise those effects.
The positive effects of proton rays have been known for years. However, Germany still lacks institutions that utilise those effects.
The DICOM Attribute Converter is a software module that solves even complex communication problems.
Smiths Medical launched a newly range of advanced embryo replacement catheters for in vitro fertilisation.
A Dutch company organises international postgraduate education programmes for cardiologists, run by the firm's Director, cardiologist Ton Hooghoudt MD PhD.
To learn more about the presence of Philips in healthcare - and particularly cardiology - our Netherlands correspondent visited the company in Amsterdam.
Italy's smart, innovative design enjoys a worldwide reputation. This also applies to the country's healthcare products.
How developments in audio-visual technology hold the key to excellence in the operating theatre.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a fancy tool for metabolic imaging. This week Tom Lewellen from the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle takes a detailed look on what is to expect of the recent developments in PET detector technology.
MORTIS is a new teleradiology system which utilises high-resolution laptops to receive images for diagnostic purposes.
Daniela Zimmermann reports on the 2nd Hospital Administrator Forum.
Dr Hanns-Joachim Weinmann, Diagnostics and Radiopharmaceuticals, Magnetic Resonance Imaging & X-Ray Research, Schering AG, examines what is feasible and what still lies only at a tantalising distance.
An unnecessary rein on medical innovations, or a wise insurance for patients' protection?
The operating `theatre´ exists no longer - at least in St Olavs Hospital (Trondheim University Hospital, Norway) where Europe's first operating studio officially opened this May. Now medical students no longer crane their necks to study surgical procedures. Thanks to this exciting new audio-visual concept they can see more, hear more and learn more.
General information concerning the country's healthcare is held at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
Tobias Schaeffter PhD, Principal Scientist, Philips Research Laboratories, Hamburg, Arne Hengerer PhD, Director molecular MR, Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, and Andreas Briel PhD, Eisenherz project manager, Schering Research Laboratories, Berlin, describe...
Today, the Local Healthcare Company ASL Nº 11, of Empoli, Florence, is a highly advanced public utility, able to face the challenges of technological innovations and to perform long-term objectives with leadership and competence.
"Thermofocus* is the first non-contact clinical thermometer in the world and the only one working at an accurate and determinate distance," Tecnimed srl, its manufacturer, reports. "Body temperature is measured in less than one second by pointing Thermofocus at the centre of the forehead."
In an effort to optimise efficiency and patient service, Spain's Castilla-La Mancha region and the Paris Hospital network AP-HP have become the first in Europe to introduce speech recognition to thousands of physicians and transcribers on a regional level.
The latest textile technologies go along with fabric integrated sensors, or computers, to measure e.g. the functioning of a patient's cardiovascular system.
Bologna, Italy - With 670 exhibitors - 595 domestic and 78 international companies from 18 countries as well as 344 represented companies from 36 countries - and close to 28,000 visitors, the medical event Exposanita was, once again, a huge success.
The Personal Security Pager (PS-Pager), made by Bosch Security Systems, is an innovative mobile that houses two products: a personal alarm device and speech pager. Compact, lightweight, robust, comfortable and discreet to wear, the device is also as easy to handle as the messages are to read.
Paris, France - The explosive growth in demand for drug eluting stents has shaped a market worth more than six billion euros annually.
At over 200 years old, it is also one of the oldest hospitals, yet is classed as one of the most up-to-date institutes in Europe.
Based on semiconductor connections that convert the current directly into light, LEDs have numerous technical advantages over conventional halogen and gas discharge lamps, the most important being low heat emissions, adjustable light features and an almost indefinite life-cycle.