Topic of the Month December:
Laser Surgery and Therapy

© Frank Luerweg,
University of Bonn

Today, laser applications have become standard in everyday hospital operations, within numerous medical disciplines. Laser radiation opens new doors in both, diagnostics and therapy: Minimally invasive, precise surgical techniques and therapeutical practices with marginal side effects, to relieve patients and reduce costs.


In December MEDICA.de presents the latest applications and research results dealing with laser medicine.

Effective new treatments are required for people with acne; this common skin disease often leads to social isolation, employment difficulties, and occasionally even suicide. But there's hope: Recent UK research suggests that single-dose laser therapy could dramatically reduce inflammatory facial acne for up to three months. - Laser Therapy Offers Hope For Acne Sufferers

A unique method allows to control the form of cartilage tissues in the human organism. It is based on strictly controllable heating of cartilage – for example, those of crooked nasal septum or injured intervertebral disks, - with the help of infrared laser radiation. - Nose Straightened With Infrared Laser Radiation

Researchers in Germany are using a new combination treatment to first shrink and then kill liver tumours that would otherwise be too large for laser therapy. - Liver Tumours - Shrink and Destroy!

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