Norway helps set up three new medical facilities at Bhubaneswar hospital

With the help of Norway’s technical assistance, three new facilities have been set up at the Capital Hospital of Bhubneswar, […]

Elsevier Animal Simulator: Innovative digital solution redefining medical education

    Elsevier, a world leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, on 2 August announced […]

Modeling Scar Effects on Electrical Spinal Cord Stimulation

Since the 1960s, spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has been used to alleviate chronic back and leg pain. The process involves […]

MEDSIM Medical Simulation Based Learning Using Virtual Patients

By Prof Prema Nedungadi, Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education (CREATE)Amrita University. With 330 medical colleges, Indias medical […]

Healthy Environment

The new Dr¤ger advanced workplace design for ceiling supply units is made of components that make the daily working routine […]

Royal Philips Electronics announces the euHeart Project

Royal Philips Electronics announced that it will lead a new European Union (EU) funded research project called euHeart, which is aimed at improving the diagnosis, therapy planning and treatment of cardiovascular disease – one of the biggest causes of mortality in the western world.

European researchers advance bone implants technology

A team of researchers from the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Applied Materials Research have developed a simulation programme calculating the internal structure and density distribution of bone material.

Supercomputer helps predict risk of bone fracture

A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory have used the Blue Gene /L supercomputer to simulate the strain on a piece of bone to help determine the likely place of fracture.

Researchers develop implant simulation software

A new computer simulation programme has been developed by European researchers to help predict outcomes for patients undergoing hip, knee or spinal implant surgery.

Cloud Technology to Combat Cancer

Cloud services provided over grid technology are helping to treat cancer patients, owing to an enormous effort by European researchers working closely with industry.

Animators create revolutionary model of the heart

Cardiology experts say that a computer simulation of the human heart created by animators at special effects company Glassworks could revolutionise surgical training.

Personalised Solutions for Traumatic Brain Injuries

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a Consortium of leading research institutions across Europe are taking the treatment of traumatic brain injuries in a more individualised direction.

Interventional Radiology – Current Practices & Future Trends : Ms. Prasanna Vadhana Kannan, Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan Technical Insights Healthcare Team

[This article was published in the May 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Interventional radiology has undergone tremendous advances owing to the development of new imaging technologies and interventional devices. This has paved the way for applying IR to a vast number of medical conditions that are otherwise performed using invasive methods.