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09/01/2008

Germany's Muslim patients

A new Turkish patient is admitted. What would almost any nurse think? "The whole family will always be there", says health economist Fatemeh Pohl-Shirazi. "In Muslim cultures …

09/01/2008

UK Polyclinic proposals meet opposition

The relationship between England's GPs and hospitals is currently at a sensitive stage, with a review of health services across the country set to impact on the way the two groups …

08/26/2008

The source of medication errors

US- researchers found that inpatients experience an average of nearly one and a half potentially harmful errors in their medication record during a hospital stay. They started the …

07/09/2008

RFID technology may mess up medical equipment

Considered optimal transportation and identification tools, they have become a symbol for modern hospitals: RFID tags. But according to a new study radio frequency identification …

07/01/2008

The Aachen-Maastricht Alliance

The RWTH Aachen University Hospital and the Maastricht University Hospital with their corresponding medical faculties are located centrally in the EU region Meus-Rhine. …

06/27/2008

NHS cancer care gets massively financed by donations

When it comes to children's cancer care, the National Health Service counts on the concern of others, critics say. In their opinion the Britisch NHS tries to compense financial …

03/01/2008

High-tech 'dacha in the woods' to treat Ukrainian children

UK, France & the Ukraine — In the spring of 2006, Kateryna Yuschenko, Head of the Supervisory Board for the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation, and wife of the …

02/27/2008

NEW VISIBILITY FOR NECKER-ENFANTS MALADES in Paris

In the heart of Paris, the Necker children's hospital, the oldest in the world dedicated to paediatrics, was suffocating inside a completely inward-looking enclave. The challenge …

12/31/2007

1st Russian EH competition winner

After Dr Sergej Pavlov, director of performance and cardio-diagnostics at the Moscow Science Centre for Sports Medicine, won our Readers Survey competition (4/07), he and a friend …

11/14/2007

New medical technology centre to target artificial organs

Switzerland - An Artificial Organ Centre for Biomedical Engineering Research has been set up at the University of Bern, drawing together its established areas of expertise in …

11/13/2007

Bern Inselspital relies on consulting expertise from Hamburg

In the Bern Inselspital, one of Switzerland's most renowned university hospitals with a tradition of more than 650 years, change is underway: within the next six years the …

11/09/2007

New concept leads to greater leadership

Changes in the healthcare sector are presenting increasingly difficult challenges to European hospitals, but, according to the hospital chain Ategris GmbH, based in …

10/30/2007

USP Hospitales de Marbella

USP Hospitales is a prominent Spanish hospital group with a network of 31 facilities in Spanish cities. The group also owns a 25% share in Hospitais Privados de Portugal, the …

10/30/2007

A joint venture for Spain and Portugal

Grupo Hospitalario Quirón and José de Mello Saúde are sharing a joint venture that aims to create a reference private healthcare group in the Iberic Market. …

08/31/2007

Boost to global health tourism predicted

Accouncement - New international website could link your hospital with potential patients worldwide. …

08/31/2007

No predicted boom in medical tourism

'The world at home in German hospitals' — thousands of wealthy foreign patients coming to boost budgets, this was the hope of many hospitals. Then along came a sobering study …

06/11/2007

"First Lady" named at the ETH Zurich

It took 152 years, but now the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zürich for the first time named a femal rector: Prof. Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach. She will succeed the …

05/01/2007

ICT improves patient safety

Improving patient safety and quality of care is of key importance for European citizens, and both the European Commission and Member States (MS) expect great benefits from new, …

03/12/2007

New Labour Code causes confusion and anger

The amended version of the new Czech Labour Code stipulates that emergency working hours and overtime in hospitals and social care institutes be altered so that employees are paid …