University Hospital Zurich
Raemistrasse 100 Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
German Hospital Service
Destouchesstr. 1 Munchen, Bayern (Germany)
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
162 City Road London, Greater London (UK)
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders Drive, Bedford Park South Australia (Australia)
Schmerzfreies Krankenhaus
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Description
The project is painfree hospital
In 2003 the pilot project started with the goal of painfree hospital the care of patients in the pain clinic to improve In 2007 the project which is funded by Mundipharma Limburg pain specialists has been completed successfully
After five hospitals were certified in 2006 received at Medica 2007 in Duumlsseldorf 13 other hospitals the certificate quotCertkom qualified pain therapyquot What makes this distinction it is unlike other certification projects awarded only if they meet all operational and nonoperational departments the criteria and more than half of patients satisfied with the therapeutic care are painful To achieve this new structures were created to ensure that an effective pain management
Bionic eye gives sight to the blind
For the first time ever reallife trials have shown that sight can be restored to the totally blind thanks to an electronic retina Chris James and Robin Millar were both able to detect light immediately after their operations and are now beginning to regain useful vision Their operations were carried out at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Tru... Read More
Statins cut risk of bowel cancer Danger halved by cholesterolbusting pills
Pills taken by up to seven million Britons to combat high cholesterol could more than halve the risk of bowel cancer according to researchers Statins which cost as little as 40p a day slashed the chances of the disease developing by an average of 57 per cent And in patients taking higher doses of the cholesterolbusting drugs or were on them for ... Read More