Keywords: Personalized Medicine

03/10/2013

What is more personal than radiology for a patient?

ESR President Gabriel Krestin introduced a major theme for the society's congress with personalized radiology. "There is nothing more personal in healthcare than a medical image," …

02/15/2013

New method to personalize chemotherapy drug selection

In laboratory studies, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a way to personalize chemotherapy drug selection for cancer patients by using cell lines …

01/17/2013

The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)

A dynamic new consortium was launched in October during the recent Innovation in Oncology event organised by the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) with Heidelberg University …

01/17/2013

Advancing personalised medicine

BRAF is a protein that plays an important part in the transmission of growth signals. In a mutated state it can lead to uncontrolled cell growth. Around every second malignant …

01/10/2013

Personalised medicine

Individually customised drug therapies have been used for the last two years, particularly for cancer patients …

01/07/2013

Birmingham hospital leads the way on hourly nursing rounds

Patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham are already seeing the benefits of hourly nurse rounds, which are expected to be rolled out nationwide, under plans announced …

10/09/2012

Mobile technologies potential in the field of public health

Over the last few decades healthcare costs have been skyrocketing, something often discussed on this blog as it has become a considerable problem for many different countries. …

08/07/2012

New National Screening Program for Men in Scotland

NHSScotland has selected the international IT services company Atos, in partnership with IMAGE Information Systems, to support the roll-out of a new national screening program’s …

07/30/2012

Diagnostic tests followed by personalized medicine

A new genre of medical tests - which determine whether a medicine is right for a patient's genes - are paving the way for increased use of personalized medicine, according to the …

07/16/2012

Save money: improve pain care in hospitals

Only individualised pharmacotherapy can maintain the quality of life for patients suffering from severe pain – and the benefit for the healthcare system is a resulting reduction …

07/10/2012

The impact of imaging on personalised cancer medicine

Enormous technical developments over recent decades, along with greater understanding of tumour biology, have made imaging, pathology and laboratory medicine indispensable tools …

07/10/2012

Molecular diagnoses will become routine

Molecular diagnostics is one of the most important technological advances in clinical diagnostics, seeing the €3.6 billion market grow 10% in constant currency (CC) in 2010 and …

07/10/2012

Perspectives on healthcare inequality

For some, ‘life’s a bitch’ with unfairness and suffering an integral part of it. Many more people actually do not expect any better than the barrenness and misery in which …

04/30/2012

The fmCh Public Database

Swiss surgical patients can check on and correct their treatment data and thereby facilitate reliable hospital benchmarking. In 1995, surgeons in the Biel, Burgdorf and Zurich …

04/27/2012

IHE-Europe Connectathon Reaches a Peak in Bern

The IHE European Connectathon to be held in Bern, Switzerland, from 21-25 May 2012 will expand this year to include European nations connecting health records in the large-scale …

02/23/2012

The Max Harry Weil Lecture at the ISICEM 2012

With his clinical and experimental research on the acute care of critically ill patients through round-the-clock monitoring of the vital functions Max Harry Weil revolutionised …

02/22/2012

What´s new in personalised molecular medicine and biomarkers?

In breast imaging, advances are constant. Dr Peter Brader, at the Department of Radiology, Division for Molecular and Gender Imaging, Medical University Vienna, believes a …

01/06/2012

Birmingham hospital leads the way on hourly nursing rounds

Patients in the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham are already enjoying the benefits of the scheme which aims to tailor nursing care to their individual needs via hourly …

12/19/2011

Europe`s healthcare sector faces strained labour relations

Current staff crises are leading Europe`s hospitals to show strong interest in talent management, according to human resources management software provider unmantis. …

10/26/2011

Radiologists need specific knowledge to assess children and adolescents

Comprehensive additional training is necessary in Germany, to specialise in paediatric radiology, and only seven among the country’s 35 university hospitals provide paediatric …