Multifunctional beds, a complex monitoring system, heart ultrasound, digital contact with the emergency services – major developments are taking place at the Clinical Centre of the University of Debrecen. The first emergency clinic of the country has also taken over daytime primary care duties.
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This year, for his ground-breaking results in the field of cancer research, Sir David Philip Lane has received the "Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine". The award-winning ceremony took place on Thursday at the UD. The discovery of the scientist primarily facilitates the treatment of leukemia.
World-class technical developments will be realised in the Biomechanical Laboratory of the University of Debrecen. The high-tech devices, including the 3D printer capable of producing metal bone prosthetics, were dedicated at the 25th anniversary celebration of the laboratory.
A special micro CT was introduced at the University of Debrecen on Wednesday. The machine, which is unique in Hungary, will be used to study bone structures around dental implants, and is able to provide images with resolutions up to 350 nanometre.
The EU regulation that puts a ban on the use of amalgam filling causes no problems either in patient care or education at the dentistry unit of the University of Debrecen. In children's dentistry, doctors have used an innovative material that provides protection against caries for years.
Clinical pharmaceutical investigations have been going on at the University of Debrecen for twenty-five years and the Pharmaceutical Development Coordination Centre established five years ago has raised the study of the most recent therapies about to be introduced to a new level.
New therapeutic options for atopic eczema are being sought at the Department of Dermatology and Allergology at the University of Debrecen. Research has found that, in the treatment of the frequent skin disease, immunotherapy for hay fever can be effective.
Medical students at the University of Debrecen are learning about jet-lag, travel-induced stress, holiday traumas and preparation of patients with chronic diseases on a travel medicine course considered to be unique in Europe.
The number of those dying from heart attack has shrunk by two thirds in the last 20 years – we learned at the press conference of the 23rd Cardiological Days in Debrecen on Thursday. About 6-700 patients with acute heart attack are treated at the catheter laboratory of the University of Debrecen.
The Department of Hematology of the Clinical Center has been added sterile wards and it has also received state-of-the-art medical equipment recently. The new BMT unit may significantly improve the life expectancy of hematological patients and make the national waiting lists shorter in the future.