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New imaging technology for surgery
A new imaging technology allows surgeons to perform operations more safely and with greater situational awareness. The technology of Munich-based company SurgicEye will first be applied to surgical procedures related to breast cancer. According to SurgicEye, freehand SPECT provides minimally invasive access to the lymph node and offers 3D data directly during surgery. This is said to promise shorter operation time, smaller scars, and less trauma/morbidity. Freehand SPECT is currently introduced in two clinics in Germany and Italy.
Help for HIV patients
Unfortunately, HIV patients in developing countries have much less of a chance to get adequate treatment than patients in developed nations. This is partly due to the lack of an established medical infrastructure. With the help of portable technology from German company Partec this might change, however. In order to treat HIV successfully the illness must be monitored closely. To do that the number of so called CD4 cells needs to be counted in the patient’s blood about four times a year. This can be done with Partec’s CyFlow Counter. It can check more than 100,000 cells in less than one minute. Also, the price for such a blood test is well below other methods. That is why many governmental as well as non-governmental health organizations use the counter. In 2008 more than 2.5 million tests were done.
Successful eye tumor treatment
After more than ten years of experience and the treatment of more than 1,400 patients, the facilities for eye tumor treatment at Berlin’s Charité hospital have recently been re-branded: “BerlinProtonen” stands for ultra-modern and precise forms of therapy for intraocular cancers. Through the cooperation of medical physicists, radiotherapists and eye specialists, proton therapy has developed into a real success story. Today, tumor growth in 95 per cent of patients can be controlled. The majority of patients with large tumors retain good use of the affected eye following the proton therapy in Berlin.
Ion and proton therapy in Germany
In addition to the recently opened Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT), two other centers in Germany (in Marburg and in Kiel) will be offering combined proton and carbon ion treatment in the next three years. Another center in Munich, the Rinecker Proton Therapy Center (RPTC) began radiation treatment with protons in March 2009. The Westdeutsche Protonentherapiezentrum in Essen will follow in 2010. Recent progress in the area of ion and proton therapy in Germany and medical treatment in general is the result of key players working closely together. For the HIT project, for example, four prestigious institutes have been involved since the planning stage: the Department of Radiation Oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital, the GSI Helmholtzzentrum for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. Moreover, HIT was implemented as a cooperation project between the Department of Radiation Oncology at Heidelberg University Hospital and Siemens, which was responsible for the installation of the radiation units.
Learning to walk again
Can robots help stroke patients learn to walk again? The neurologist Prof. Dr. Stefan Hesse from the Median Clinic in Berlin thinks so. As a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation of patients after a stroke, paraplegia or skull-brain trauma, he wants to help partially paralysed stroke patients regain their lost motor abilities as much as possible. To achieve this, training is very important. However, this training is enormously strenuous for the therapists, who hold, support and lead the patients. Now the Haptic Walker has taken over this task. The robot has been tested in clinical practice and meets real-life demands.
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