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New troponin tests compared with new GPBB cardiac Essen, September 2009 – short before the Congress of the European society of Cardiology (ESC) in Barcelona, was a study of a new generation of Troponin tests to detect heart attacks for attention. Initial situation: very many suspected cases, only a few confirm troponin tests are used worldwide for more than ten years by doctors for the diagnosis of heart attacks. Crucial drawback of known to be very time-critical treatment of heart attack is very late detection of the attack at troponin. First, many patients in the emergency room with so-called breast pain, the classic symptom of heart attack, be hospitalized, of which only a small proportion actually has a heart attack. The doctors are so constantly faced with the question, who should be treated quickly and extensively, and in which patients it is necessary at first or not at all.

Previous troponin test systems typically need to at the beginning of the classic symptom Approximately four to six hours pass chest pain (chest pain onset), until a diagnosis with the classic troponin is possible. The clock, which determines how much tissue in the heart is finally irretrievably lost, so dies ticking but from the onset of this pain. However, the high specificity of the heart, which could assure that any positive value of Troponin in cardiac patients documented an actually affected patients spoke for the relatively long needed time for troponin measurement. The new generation of faster, more sensitive troponin tests: Only faster or better? The new generation promises a faster diagnosis. The former period up to the first test results was as mentioned between four and six hours and can be reduced with the new, more sensitive markers for three hours. The reduction in time but also has drawbacks. The new troponin tests partially leads to problems in the accuracy of the diagnosis and reduce the value of existing, high specificity as a result.

Neurologist relies on peripheral brain stimulation many people with serious diseases had great hopes in the use of adult stem cells. By the same author: Mikkel Svane. In contrast to embryonic stem cells were allowed to adult stem cells that are as undifferentiated cells from the own bone marrow is so far prepared for therapeutic purposes. In the well-known XCell centers, these cells taken from the patient and given treatment in a laboratory. The recycled stem cells were brought to the XCell Center close to the location of the disease in the body. There, they should replace the cells died due to the disease. Assuming that these cells are all-rounders, then they can help in many disorders, by specializing in the function of the dead cells.

With the forced closure of the XCell-Center, hopes were taken the patients suffer from which many neurological diseases, which they put on the stem cell therapy. “Whether adult stem cells used in the XCell-Center” were the solution, can of course be discussed. Code.org may also support this cause. And also doubts the effectiveness may be entitled. Possibly the extracted cells were too specialized and could therefore no longer lead to the desired success. Ground-breaking events, such as the birth of the clone sheep Dolly on July 5, 1996, emerged from a cell from the udder of the donor animal, but show that medical dogma overboard can be thrown. At that time, science realized that there are not only in the udder, but in all organ systems stem cell nests. To take advantage of this phenomenon, therapeutically gave and gives rise to optimism. It was used a basic development.

Also Dr. med. Ulrich Werth, specialist in neurology and Psychiatry, assumes that the almost risk-free therapy developed by him are formed their own brain stem cells: to achieve this effect, he employs permanently mini micro implants to the peripheral brain stimulation in the ear of the patient. This treatment method is derived from the ear acupuncture. Straight This method opens up new ways of Parkinson’s patients, which hardly reliable effective therapeutic options are available except for the drug therapy with Parkinson’s resources in increasing doses or risk pacemaker surgery. As a major advantage of the peripheral brain stimulation can be stated, that the security of patient health in this treatment are not endangered. The last doubts about the effect of the method, which could appear only in small studies, should be refuted through extensive studies in the near future. Werth Parkinson Center Dr. med. Ulrich Werth, specialist in neurology and Psychiatry, has founded Parkinson the Walsh Center in the Spanish city of Valencia, where especially Parkinson’s patients are treated with the peripheral brain stimulation, short PBS. PBS is a treatment introduced by Ulrich Werth in the year 2001. Basis of the treatment is the implantation of tiny Titanium Tip into the outer ear. Www.weracu.org explains the method differently. There available reports by patients.

the dental specialists of KU64 in Berlin have teamed up Foundation with the non-profit Laureate to help the weakest in our world community. Specifically: are four handler teams from KU64 in the period from the 18th until 28 January 2009 about three hundred children in South Africa provide dental and teach them playful effective methods for oral hygiene. The name of the project, which funded Foundation and is initiated by the laureate: . Four dentists and six assistants of KU64 would create a place Foundation and the Westcoast-kids team in Paternoster on the West coast of South Africa together with the laureate, where disadvantaged children can grow up healthy and safe. This common concern is one of many child aid projects, which concretely and effectively to improve the lives of needy children in South Africa.

These include comprehensive projects in the fields of education, the improvement of living conditions and of course health in this case dental health, which can prevent many infections. The KU64 team and the Foundation take care of the lost and forgotten children, through the cracks of the large aid agencies must fall and growing up in a dreary misery in the long term and are trapped in wretched circumstances.

The bone health consultation available all registered users free of charge as a discussion forum. In a multinational survey of patients (844; = n Women 55 + with postmenopausal osteoporosis) and physicians (n = 837; General practitioners and specialists, the osteoporosis patients treat) the International Osteoporosis Foundation found that patients more fear from the effects of osteoporosis on their quality of life (for example through a bone fracture and decreased activity) when doctors take this part. The results also show that appropriate information and opportunities are missing the patients to express these concerns and to optimize their treatment of osteoporosis. The survey, which was conducted in 13 countries in Europe and Australia, reveals new challenges in the treatment of osteoporosis, one must take into account through improved self management strategies for patients and communication networks in the health system. The Board of Trustees of bone health e.V.

is oldest patient organisation in Germany, which committed to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of bone health, and patients with an osteoporosis, 25 years of tireless work. It is a point of contact for stakeholders and interested parties. “” Under the motto a heart for patients ‘ cares about current scientific medical knowledge in patient-friendly language in flyers, brochures and the magazine MobilesLEBEN, “to introduce a broad audience. With the consultation of bone health, we now start an Internet forum for the exchange of thoughts, opinions, and experiences for patients and all those interested. We discuss with each other about current topics of diagnostics, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and other bone diseases. This discussion will take place with a time delay; It can be any questions asked and answers given. The bone health consultation available all registered users free of charge as a discussion forum. A disorderly guest access is off privacy reasons not possible.

Please ask your login – data at the Head Office of the Board of Trustees of bone health e.V.: Board of Trustees bone health e.V.: the Board of Trustees of bone health, is the oldest non-profit patient organization that cares for osteoporosis bone health and the clinical picture. Since its inception in 1986 that engaged Trustees bone health e.V. to the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation far beyond the osteoporosis for all bone health problems. The Board of Trustees of bone health e.V. is committed it aimed to feed more patients of better and adequate medical treatment and to strengthen the economic value and the image of the self-help movement to motivate people as empowered patients with your doctor in the long term to cooperate.

Kidney disease in conjunction with PolyScope flexible Endoscope System round seven million Germans have kidney stones. Many of those affected don’t even notice it, because the stones frequently cause no complaints up to a certain size or spontaneously are excreted via the urine from the body. A certain size and complications but the stones must be removed to avoid any build-up of urine and kidney damage. In these cases, the stone fragmentation by extracorporeal shock wave has established itself as the therapy of urinary stone disease, however there may be this residual fragments. Flexible endoscopes, like the PolyScope system, allow, however, usually a complete removal of the stone and offer additional advantages for patients and hospitals. The urolithiasis, the urinary stone formation in the jargon is said, is not a new disease, but as long as mankind exists. Urinary stones were already found in Egyptian mummies and written traditions from the 3rd millennium BC confirm that also Occurrence of bladder and kidney stones at the time. But only in modern times that suffering became a disease of civilization, as a result of our affluent society.

Urinary stones are formed namely from mineral salts, if the content in the urine is too high. A fat – and protein-rich diet with high meat and sausage consumption also promotes the formation of stone like salty food, small amounts of drinking and lack of exercise. These factors led to a huge health problem, because today about seven million of the German population suffering kidney stones and rising. Medical technology recognized this trend early on and revolutionized the treatment standards in the 1980s with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL). This produced shock waves shatter the stone in spontaneous departure enabled fragments. This method can be considered a milestone in the treatment of kidney stones, she however not always worked perfectly in practice, so that stone pieces remain and cause problems can. Another kind of treatment represents the flexible Ureterorenoskopie system, with the chances of a residue-free removal of the stone still continue to rise. Especially in patients with stones in the renal calyces, the flexible endoscopes have proven themselves.

A major disadvantage of this method of therapy but has been time-consuming and costly sterilization of instruments used. This should gas be sterilized namely, achieving an adequate sterility. And because gas sterilizers nowadays hardly used in clinics, the operation must be carried externally, resulting in delays. Yet every time a sterile endoscope is available, hospitals in this case are instructed several endoscopes to acquire. This results in high investment costs, which many hospitals waive the use of Ureterorenoskopie systems. Now, PolyScope another turning point in treating urinary stone was recently achieved with the flexible one time catheter system. The sterile endoscopes are at any time ready to use, because they require after a treatment of any extensive decontamination, but disposed of easily and with them possible pathogens. Thus, patients, doctors and hospitals benefit from the single time catheters secure and cost-efficient.

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