Nursing news
Nursing organisations have warned that about 70% of newly qualified nurses cannot find jobs in the UK's National Health Service (NHS).
The highest spend in EU
The UK spends more of its healthcare budget on cardiovascular disease than any other country in the EU.
What a waste!
A Leicester-based registered charity is facing possible criminal prosecution because of supplying unused medicines to healthcare centres in African countries.
The 9th European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG)
The EHFG has developed into the leading health policy platform in the EU since its beginnings in 1998, attracting close to 600 high-level participants annually.
High-tech plaster for analgesic therapy
It sticks to the skin like a plaster, but this credit-card sized innovation contains an entire patient-controlled drug-delivery system.
Water jet dissection
Five years ago, surgeons at the Lukas Hospital in Neuss, Germany, used water jet dissection for visceral surgery for the first time. Dr Bernhard Lammers, head of the hospital's General and Visceral Surgery Department, describes subsequent experiences with this procedure and possible future developments
Quality control in minimally invasive surgery
There is a need for a national institue to co-ordinate education and certification in minimally surgery.
Vascular surgery
'Alles im Fluss' is the slogan of the 22nd Annual Congress of the German Society for Endovascular & Vascular Surgery, to be held from 6-9 September, in Muelheim an der Ruhr.
Centralised operating theatre control provides many benefits
Core - the integrated operating theatre concept created by Richard Wolf GmbH, has a modular, networked structure to link various devices in the operating theatre.
Women, doctors and heart disease
'Positive action is needed to more and more raise awareness of gender differences and cardiac disease - even among cardiologists.'
CVD and women
New initiative aims at clarification and education.
Controversy: the nurse-surgeon
Nurse-surgeon training in the UK is lively discussed for other European countries doing the same to address their lack of qualified surgeons.
First European surgical studio goes live
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.
40th anniversary
As the German Society of Neuroradiology 40th annual meeting approached (Venue: Dresden. 31 August - 3 September), Professors Martin Schumacher (Freiburg), President of the German Society of Neuroradiology (GSN) and Rüdiger von Kummer (Dresden), the meeting's President, examine the history and potential in this medical field
Women and heart disease
We asked Professor Badiale about progress in the understanding of women and heart disease.
Basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Professor Paul Pepe and Dr Jane Wigginton discuss current research and concepts that will affect the future of basic CPR.
IGS
In our last issue we featured the Future Operating Room Project developed at St Olavs Hospital, University Hospital of Trondheim, Norway, a collaboration between the hospital and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. There, highly promising research on navigation is being carried out in co-peration with the research foundation Sintef Health Research. Professor of Surgery Hans O…
Fatal blood clots claim 500,000 EU lives annually
Experts call for screening of surgical and medical patients, and thromboprophylaxis for those at risk.
Healthcare in Spain
General information concerning the country's healthcare is held at the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
Computed tomography and acute stroke
´CT has been revolutionizing the understanding and treatment of stroke´ - that is the summary of Dr. Dzialowski.
Perinatal medicine
Interview with Prof. Klaus Vetter MD, director of the Obestetrics Clinic at the Perinatal Centre, Vivantes Hospital Neukölln, Berlin, Germany.
The Netherlands and Belgium
Healthcare authorities have advised university hospitals to slowdown surgical training, because, after years of study, qualified Dutch surgeons can find no employment.
Resistance to silver-containing wound dressings
Is a sharp weapon being blunted? Article by Heidi Heinhold.
EU regulation aims to improve research on medicines for children
The use of unlicensed and off-label medicines for children is widespread, yet over 50% of all pharmaceutical products have no scientific data for young people. With its Regulation on Medicinal Products for Paediatric Use the EU aims to promote the development of more medicines specifically for children.