Steroid sparing
According to leading transplant specialists, within five years almost all renal transplants will be steroid free.
CyberKnife radiosurgery progress
In its first year, 450 patients have been treated with CyberKnife - the unique Robotic Radiosurgery System.
Liver transplants
Until now, a liver transplant was the only treatment for patients with liver failure. Now primitive cells might become an alternative therapy.
Coronary Heart Disease
With ever-improving stents, cardiologists can deal with ever more complex cases. Will bypass surgery soon be a thing of the past?
Revised ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines on atrial fibrillation
Stroke risk should determine anti-clotting treatment for people with irregular heartbeat.
HD training for cardiac surgeons
A Dutch company organises international postgraduate education programmes for cardiologists, run by the firm's Director, cardiologist Ton Hooghoudt MD PhD.
BMI does not predict outcome for HD patients
The body mass index (BMI) is not a reliable indicator for obesity and therefore cannot predict the outcome for patients with heart disease.
Statins are cardioprotective
Researchers demonstrate decreased 'no-reflow' and better preservation of ventricular function in animals treated for only two days with a statin.
Slow breathing and blood pressure
Understanding the way people breathe might explain how the body regulates blood pressure and much else.
Drug therapy for heart-endangering staphylococcus infections
Researchers demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of a new drug for treating bloodstream and heart infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
Improved internal communication reduces absenteeism
Absenteeism from work is not only caused by illness but also by stress in the workplace. Promoting employees´identification with the company is a successful therapy in this case.
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
