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Large language models: enabler or eroder of cardiovascular care? • healthcare-in-europe.com
Large language models (LLMs) have potential in healthcare settings to help support both patients and clinicians. At the ESC 2024 cardiology congress in London, experts explored potential applications, including patient communication and education, clinical decision support and administrative tasks.
Taiwan offers AI support for surgeons • healthcare-in-europe.com
Future-oriented large-scale investments on the one hand, political unrest on the other: The presentation of award-winning medical technology from Taiwan at Medica in Düsseldorf reflected a year full of changes and challenges. The prize-winning solutions for surgery, intensive care medicine, traumatology and endoscopy once again attracted a large professional audience.
Nanoplastics can impair the effect of antibiotics, study finds • healthcare-in-europe.com
Minuscule particles of plastic are not only bad for the environment. A study led from Umeå University has shown that the so-called nanoplastics which enter the body also can impair the effect of antibiotic treatment.
Hospital uses AI platform to achieve ‘extreme transparency’ • healthcare-in-europe.com
‘Extreme transparency’ is helping clinical teams at Karolinska University Hospital to deliver some of the best outcomes in the world. Gunnar Sandersjöö, head of the largest trauma centre in Sweden, explains the mechanisms behind a relentless pursuit of quality.
Epilepsy care pathway as potential model for healthcare systems • healthcare-in-europe.com
A new care pathway for epilepsy care pathway has been introduced in Finland. The model provides a streamlined, multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy, and combines modern digital tools, data sharing and peer support.
Paving the way for personalized, blood-based, 3D-printed implants • healthcare-in-europe.com
Scientists have created a new ‘biocooperative’ material based on blood, which has shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalised regenerative blood products that could be used as effective therapies to treat injury and disease.
Attacking glioblastoma from multiple angles • healthcare-in-europe.com
Glioblastoma is the most common kind of malignant brain tumor in adults. So far, no treatment has been able to make this aggressive tumor permanently disappear. The tumor cells are too varied, and the microenvironment is too tumor-friendly.
Lung cancer: PET/CT imaging analysis with AI predicts immunotherapy side effects • healthcare-in-europe.com
Associate professor Satoshi Watanabe and his teams from Niigata University have revealed that PET/CT image analysis using artificial intelligence (AI) can predict the occurrence of interstitial lung disease, known as a serious side effect of immunotherapy in lung cancer.
New material to protect devices against blood clot formation • healthcare-in-europe.com
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a groundbreaking coating that could make medical devices safer for millions of patients, reducing the risks associated with blood clots and dangerous bleeding.
Liquid biopsy as diagnostic tool for pancreatic lesions • healthcare-in-europe.com
In recent research, Dr. J-Matthias Löhr and colleagues provide an in-depth review of diagnostic methods for pancreatic incidentaloma—incidental findings often detected during imaging scans intended for other conditions.
Hip replacement: Study shows which implants are built to last • healthcare-in-europe.com
Hip implants with a delta ceramic or oxidised zirconium head and highly crosslinked polyethylene liner or cup had the lowest risk of revision during the 15 years after surgery, a new University of Bristol-led study has found.
An easier way to transport hospital beds • healthcare-in-europe.com
The most important resource of a company – including hospitals – is its staff. This is reason enough to think about optimising working conditions. The two companies Linak and Tente have done just that and are presenting an innovative solution for patient transport at the hospital bedside at the Medica tradefair in Düsseldorf.
Don't miss: Hot issues, current trends and innovations at the Medica 2024 Labmed Forum • healthcare-in-europe.com
Skills shortages and digitalization, trends in cardiology and oncology, future prospects in laboratory medicine, and healthy aging – these pressing topics are at the forefront of discussions at this year’s Medica Labmed Forum (in Hall 1 / G 37).
Don't miss: Trends and innovations at the Medica 2024 Health IT Forum • healthcare-in-europe.com
How can innovations help to master the great challenges and demands with which healthcare is confronted across international borders? This central question will be given solid answers again at the Medica Health IT Forum (in Hall 13 / A33), an established part of the programme at the trade fair.
Finding signs of lung cancer in exhaled breath • healthcare-in-europe.com
Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what’s going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds could help doctors provide early diagnoses — and improve patients’ prospects.
Total knee arthroplasty: a matter of alignment • healthcare-in-europe.com
When performing knee replacement surgery, also called total knee arthroplasty, doctors traditionally try to align the hip, knee, and ankle in a straight line, forming a neutral alignment, rather than replicating the patient’s original alignment.
Pregnancy and diabetes: reducing complications with technology • healthcare-in-europe.com
Women with type 1 or type 2 diabetes often have difficulty getting pregnant, due to complications from the disease, being obese or seriously underweight, or having conditions like polycystic ovary syndrome. Once pregnant, they face challenges of having a safe pregnancy and delivering a healthy baby. Recent advances in diabetes technology, including continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and most recently hybrid closed-loop (HCL) insulin delivery systems, can help women meet their pregnancy glucose targets and achieve significantly better health outcomes for themselves and their infant.