Category Archives: Health News

Cut, Poison, Burn — Is Radiation Treatment on the Way Out?

Modern medicine’s go-to strategies for cancer treatment are archaic, based on the “cut, poison, burn” model — or surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. The idea of using toxic therapies to destroy tumors should represent a last resort, if used at all, not a first-line treatment. By their very nature, chemotherapy and radiation have devastating effects on… Read More »

What Happens to Doctors Who Innovate?

I chose “The Forgotten Side of Medicine” as the name for my publication on Substack because it touches upon the three critical facets of medicine: The art of medicine and depth of doctor-patient relationship — both which are becoming lost as we switch to an increasingly technological and algorithmic practice of medicine. The forgotten victims… Read More »

ROVEMA invites confectionery and snack manufacturers to their Customized Experience in-house trade fair

Packaging machine specialist ROVEMA is organizing a multi-day customer event in May 2023, tailored to the requirements of the confectionery and snack industry. The event will be held at ROVEMA’s headquarters in Fernwald, Hesse. Under the motto “It’s about your products. Not ours”, the packaging machine manufacturer ROVEMA invites representatives of the confectionery and snack… Read More »

Artificial intelligence in intensive care units: University Hospital Freiburg relies on x-cardiac technology in clinical routine

Berlin: Berlin-based x-cardiac GmbH is pleased to announce that Freiburg University Hospital has become the second pilot customer for its AI-based software “x-c-bleeding” for predicting severe bleeding complications after cardiac surgery. With the implementation of “x-c-bleeding”, the University Hospital Freiburg takes another important step towards AI-based medicine. Severe post-operative bleeding and acute renal injury are… Read More »