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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 …

05/31/2012

Advanced Technology Offerings to Power Operating Room Solutions Market, Advises Frost & Sullivan

The European operating room solutions market, comprising surgical lights, surgical tables and pendants, is primarily a replacement market. Although tightening budgets are …

05/25/2012

Malta’s Saint James Hospital Group

Embarking on any business enterprise is never a small feat, but when that business is healthcare the task becomes gargantuan – and even greater if opening a healthcare facility …

05/21/2012

New law raises concerns for Germany’s out-patients

Under a new health delivery Act only seriously ill in-patients will receive out-patient treatment at the same hospital. The rest will have to go to a new ‘medical specialist …

04/30/2012

Large hospital acquisitions in Germany

Fresenius subsidiary Helios on its way to become market leader. According to a study* of company mergers, with the privatisation of hospitals, Germany is in an exceptional …

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 …

04/30/2012

Spain’s deep crisis continues

Cuts in pharmaceuticals spending, doctors’ jobs threats, A&E closures, non-payments to medical suppliers – can a new government save their country and its NHS by massive …

04/30/2012

Italy’s healthcare reform

Italian healthcare is still hitting the headlines. Although Prime Minister Mario Monti announced plans for healthcare reform at the end of 2011 – effectively cutting healthcare …

03/28/2012

Navigating the Evolving Regulation and Commercialization of Stem Cell Research

Interested parties that can successfully navigate the evolving regulation of stem cell research stand to gain significant scientific and commercial advantage. …

03/22/2012

European MedTech Conference vetting system goes live

The independent Compliance Panel of European medical technology industry association Eucomed has launched a conference vetting system to review and approve third-party educational …

02/15/2012

Trans-border research

‘Nowadays, there are not that many opportunities for EU countries to expand technological progress,’ said Ambassador Dr Jan Koukal when he called for the trans-border …

02/10/2012

Industry supports European Commission in strengthening medical devices legislation

Eucomed, the European industry association for medical technology, appreciates the European Commission’s swift reaction and clear proposal for a joint plan of immediate measures …

01/09/2012

Eucomed statement on PIP breast implant incidents

The European medical technology industry association Eucomed notes with great concern recent press reports that the French firm Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) may have violated the …

12/19/2011

Doom and gloom but yes, there’s hope and even health-promoting laughter…

Health-promoting laughter… As our year ends amid depressing global economic uncertainty, budget and staff cutbacks, threats to healthcare workers’ pensions and much else, some …

12/06/2011

Presumed consent not answer to solving organ shortage in U.S.

Changing the organ donation process in this country from opt-in — by, say, checking a box on a driver’s license application— to opt-out, which presumes someone’s …

12/05/2011

Ranking healthcare systems worldwide

Does France provide the world’s best health service? How is a good healthcare system defined? Who decides that one healthcare system is better than another? What do we expect …

12/05/2011

Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology

Step by step, the Helsinki Declaration is being implemented: Great Britain and the Netherlands have made it law. In Germany, it is voluntary, Susanne Werner reports …

10/27/2011

Radiology in Poland - a constantly developing field

In an interview with Daniela Zimmermann, Professor Jerzy Walecki explained the implications of that role and the state of radiology in Poland today. …

10/20/2011

World Conference Examines Impact of Social Inequities on Health

High-level representatives from more than 100 countries are meeting this week in Rio de Janeiro for the World Conference on Social Determinants of Health, a World Health …