High blood glucose is associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients, and use of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to control hyperglycemia is a common practice. Recent evidence does not show a consistent benefit, but even shows harm associated with IIT.
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Hospitals: Management of High Blood Glucose
Topic of the Month May: Product Development
It often takes several years until a medical device can be launched and used on the market. Many people are involved in the development process of a device or implant.
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Topic of the Month May:
Product Development – From Conception to Application
MEDICA TV
Copper: The New Building Block in Hospital Hygiene
World Multiple Sclerosis Day - 05/29/2013
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease. Its different manifestations cause progressive forms of disability that strongly vary in severity. More than two million people are affected worldwide. For their whole lifetime, they have to deal both with the disease itself and its effects, once it has emerged.
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World Multiple Sclerosis Day
05/29/2013
Welcome at MEDICA.de - World Forum for Medicine!
MEDICA is the International Trade Fair and the Congress for Medical Technology, Electromedicine, Laboratory Equipment, Diagnostics and Drugs. We are looking forward to seeing you in Düsseldorf from 20-23 November 2013.
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Michael Jagodzinski about tissue engineering
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Copper: The New Building Block in Hospital Hygiene
Germs can be easily transmitted from person to person in hospitals. Therefore, door handles made of copper alloys are an important new piece in hospital hygiene.
24/05/2013 - New techniques in imaging of brain activity developed by Doctor Jean Gotman, from McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute, and his colleagues lead to improved treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy.
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23/05/2013 - Aggressive forms of bladder cancer involve the protein PODXL – a discovery that could hold the key to improved treatment, according to researchers at Lund University, Uppsala University and KTH in Sweden.
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22/05/2013 - Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Lund University, Sweden, have bioengineered a novel molecule which has been proven to successfully kill tumour cells.
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17/05/2013 - Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional “open” transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois (UI) Hospital & Health Sciences System.
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16/05/2013 - A dominant and useful bacterium called Akkermansia muciniphila is present in the intestinal system of all humans, from babies to the elderly. This bacterium has a favourable effect on the disrupted metabolism associated with obesity.
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16/05/2013 - Expensive, state-of-the-art medical devices and surgeries often are thwarted by the body’s natural response to attack something in the tissue that appears foreign. University of Washington (UW) engineers have demonstrated a way to prevent this.
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15/05/2013 - Researchers at the University of California report that cancers physically alter cells in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels that transports and stores immune cells throughout the body – to promote the spread of disease, a process called metastasis.
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14/05/2013 - Some parts of the body, like the liver, can regenerate themselves after damage. But others, such as our nervous system, are considered either irreparable or slow to recover, leaving thousands with a lifetime of pain, limited mobility, or even paralysis.
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13/05/2013 - Researchers at the Intermountain Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center have developed a new 3-D technology that for the first time allows cardiologists the ability to see the precise source of atrial fibrillation in the heart.
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10/05/2013 - In cancer cells, the genome is often in a chaotic, unstable state. Now, a research group from the Würzburg Biocenter, Germany, found out which enzymes can stabilize DNA.
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24/05/2013 - High blood glucose is associated with poor outcomes in hospitalized patients, and use of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to control hyperglycemia is a common practice. Recent evidence does not show a consistent benefit, but even shows harm associated with IIT.
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24/05/2013 - Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease. Its different manifestations cause progressive forms of disability that strongly vary in severity. More than two million people are affected worldwide. For their whole lifetime, they have to deal both with the disease itself and its effects, once it has emerged.
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21/05/2013 - Whooping cough has exploded in the United States and some other developed countries in recent decades, and many experts suspect ineffective childhood vaccines for the alarming resurgence.
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17/05/2013 - The use of genome-wide analysis (GWA), that examines the entirety of an individual's DNA for genomic mutations or variants which can cause health problems is a useful technology for diagnosing disease. But it can also pose major ethical problems if used incorrectly.
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15/05/2013 - A study of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) researchers offers an in-depth look at hospitals nationwide and admissions to intensive care units (ICU). The study finds a sharp increase — nearly 50 percent — in ICU admissions coming from United States’ emergency departments.
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14/05/2013 - Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a smart phone app that helps users lose weight by carefully recording their food consumption.
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13/05/2013 - A new study finds that high levels of operating room (OR) noise can have a disruptive effect on a surgeon's auditory processing abilities.
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08/05/2013 - A new study catalogues community-based efforts to develop strategies and policies that – by targeting high risk housing – may hold the key to reducing lead hazards in children's homes.
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07/05/2013 - For the first time, researchers from institutions around the United States have conducted an identical series of toxicology tests evaluating lung-related health impacts associated with widely used engineered nanomaterials (ENMs).
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23/05/2013 - Johns Hopkins researchers report that hospitals may be reaping enormous income for patients whose hospital stays are complicated by preventable bloodstream infections contracted in their intensive care units.
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22/05/2013 - The University of Gothenburg Vaccine Research Institute (GUVAX) announces successful results in a placebo controlled phase I study of an oral, inactivated Escherichia coli diarrhea vaccine.
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21/05/2013 - A new report suggests that improved health care and significant reductions in drug costs might be attained by breaking up the age-old relationship between physicians and drug company representatives who promote the newest, more costly and often unnecessary prescription drugs.
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10/05/2013 - Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a test that can determine which children with malaria are likely to develop cerebral malaria, a much more life-threatening form of the disease.
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06/05/2013 - Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health tested 32 different lipsticks and lip glosses commonly found in drugstores and department stores. They detected lead, cadmium, chromium, aluminum and five other metals, some of which were found at levels that could raise potential health concerns.
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03/05/2013 - An experimental drug has shown promise in treating influenza, preventing lung injury and death from the virus in preclinical studies, according to University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers. The scientists found that a drug called Eritoran can protect mice from death after they have been infected with a lethal dose of influenza virus.
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29/04/2013 - The increasing cost of treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in the United States has reached unsustainably high levels and may be leaving many patients under- or untreated because they cannot afford care, according to a study.
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26/04/2013 - Long-term exposure to air pollution may be linked to heart attacks and strokes by speeding up atherosclerosis, or "hardening of the arteries," according to a University of Michigan public health researcher and colleagues from across the United States.
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23/04/2013 - Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. It is a computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing molecules that chemists could feasibly create in a lab.
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22/04/2013 - Mathematical prediction models are better than doctors at predicting the outcomes and responses of lung cancer patients to treatment. This applies even after the doctor has seen the patient and knows what treatment plan and radiation dose will be.
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23/04/2013 - In treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus with emphasis on reduced calorie intake and more physical activity, the patient’s weight may stagnate or even rise.
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26/03/2013 - MEDEXPO Saudi Arabia is an international healthcare exhibition and forum in the kingdom focusing on a wide array of health sectors, including Medical, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Laboratories, Pharmaceutical & Bio-Technology and Medical Tourism which will predominantly attract visitors from the GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain & Oman) and the wider Middle East region.
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22/01/2013 - From the 28th to the 31st of January 2013 the German Healthcare Export Group (GHE) presents itself on a large joint stand and with numerous member companies in the German Pavilion at the ARAB HEALTH in Dubai.
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18/12/2012 - On December 7th, for the first time a „Digital Workshop“
took place at PROTEC. The members of the event consisted
of impressed doctors and radiographers who learned a lot
for their daily work as key benefit of their participation.
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07/12/2012 - From 3rd to 7th December 2012, the leading trade fair Zdravookhraneniye opens its doors in Moscow, Russia. The 22nd International Exhibition for Health Care, Medical Engineering and Pharmaceuticals is becoming more and more recognition among Russian and foreign companies dealing with the production and marketing of medical products year after year.
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26/11/2012 - CIM med is reporting excellent results from this year's Medica. In a period of high cost pressures in the health sector, decision-makers are on the lookout for robust solutions that provide added value for work processes in clinical situations. In addition, the spotlight was on the perennial issue of hygiene.
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26/11/2012 - The results surpassed expectations and the Düsseldorf fair should result in revenues of 31 million US Dollars for Brazil’s exhibitors.
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23/11/2012 - Bacterial contamination risk is a serious issue for any life-science laboratory. It is a well known fact that environmental conditions as humidity and temperature favour proliferation of germs, bacteria, fungi and algae. That is the reason why refrigerators could become an ideal place for growth of micro organisms.
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21/11/2012 - Again there was a large crowd at the stand of Wellsystem, the inventor of the Hydrojet-Technology. Wellsystem presented in total four Wellsystem Medical_Plus and two Wellsystem_Spa the medical and therapeutical visitors and showed them this unique therapy concept of dry water massage combining the gentle power of water with beneficial warmth.
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Topic of the Month
Product Development - From Conception to Application
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MEDICA cooperation partner of the 2nd Health Forum on 5 February 2013
The second Health Forum, a whole-day conference for the dialog between the Healthcare and the Sports industry, will gather leading decision makers of both sectors as well as representatives from politics and international associations.
This event offers the unique opportunity of a cross-sector exchange of concepts, ideas and technologies to open up new business potential and sales channels.
The Health Forum takes place on 5 February 2013 at ICM Internationales Congress Center München.
Top News
Hospitals: Management of High Blood Glucose
Topic of the Month May:
Product Development – From Conception to Application
MEDICA TV
Copper: The New Building Block in Hospital Hygiene
World Multiple Sclerosis Day
05/29/2013
Welcome!
All important information about MEDICA
Exhibitor registration
Become an exhibitor at MEDICA 2013!
MEDICA 2013 video
Discover the world leading trade fair for the medical industry.
