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Jeep and quad to the rescue

Islanders on Usedom, in Germany's Baltic Sea, will be the first to see two unique rescue vehicles in action.

Sales up for painless wound closure devices

A dramatic change in the market for painless wound closure devices is predicted during the next five years due to advances in medical and surgical technologies.

News • Anaesthesiology

Dräger's Acute Care System is reported to be the first to offer a totally new approach to managing and delivering care across the entire acute care process - from emergency care to operating theatre, to critical care and neonatal care.

Mechanical heart pumps could beat transplants

Almost one in three people over 55 will develop congestive heart failure, research has revealed. The Rotterdam Study, a prospective population-based study of cardiovascular and other diseases in the elderly, monitored 7,983 inhabitants of Ommoord, a Rotterdam suburb (source: Eur Heart J 2004: 25, 1614-19).

ST&D offers wireless vital signs platform

ST&D is an internationally recognised and leading innovator in targeted vital signs monitoring. It has developed a solution to the issue of remote monitoring with its flexible wireless vital signs platform that can be customised to provide various monitoring products.

High-tech for healthy living

A special exhibition in Paderborn's Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF) is demonstrating the use of state-of-the-art computer technology in medical science. With more than 100 exhibits, a third of them interactive, it runs until May 1, 2007. EH correspondent Holger Zorn was one of the first visitors

Five win certificates in pain free hospital pilot scheme

A pain-free Hospital pilot project launched in Germany three years ago has ended with the first five of 25 hospitals being awarded a Qualified Pain Therapy certification.

Political agreement on the EU Health Programme 2007-2013

A “political agreement” on the EU Health Programme 2007-2013 recently has reached the Health Ministers Council in Brussels. The programme is a framework for the Commission´s funding of projects relating to health and will be part of a broader EU health strategy to be put forward by the Commission next year.

The Pain-free Hospital - Pilot project successfully completed in five hospitals

The first five out of a total of 25 German hospitals have just been awarded the certification "Qualified Pain Therapy" with the completion of the pilot project "Pain-free Hospital".

Antibiotics for Africa and Latin America

A donation of the antibiotic Cipro® (Bayer HealthCare) with a wholesale value of more than US$ 25 million has been given to the non-profit organization MAP (Medical Assistance Programs) who will distribute it to clinics and hospitals in Africa and Latin America, which suffer badly from the lack of essential drugs.

Article • Mobile AED

The world's smallest defibrillator

The Fred easyport, the only pocket defibrillator in the world, which Schiller brought onto the market three years ago, was a huge success so far. From next year on, the device will also supply a manual shock option. It is so small (133 x 126 x 50mm) and light (490 g including the battery) that for many doctors it is already standard equipment in their emergency bag.The fact that this ‘life…

Underage Alcohol Poisoning Increases In UK

Apparently, 20 children are diagnosed each day in the UK with alcohol poisoning.

Simpler safer pill slicing

Patients with swallowing difficulties could benefit from the new version of the exakt S Tablet Splitter.

Monitoring our own health

Health Manager, a new diagnostic system for personal health monitoring, will be launched by Biocomfort at Medica in November.

The dual-use stethoscope

Emergency care doctors can now use just one stethoscope to tend either paediatric or adult patients.

Synchronising drug and gene therapies

Cancer can be tackled with a combination of drug and genetic therapies, so that the effectiveness of individual treatments are enhanced.

The trauma surgeon is a decathlete

Fear for the quality of acute care for the injured and victims of accidents was expressed by Professor Vilmos Vécsei, traumatology and sports traumatology specialist and Head of the University Clinic for Trauma Surgery in Vienna (VV), as well as President and General Secretary of the European Trauma Society (ETS), and Professor Otmar Trentz, Director of the Trauma Surgery Clinic at University…