June 2010:
Tissue Bank Berlin-Brandenburg: Cooperation between Charité and the DHZB
"Organs save lives; tissue makes life worth living again" is, in short form, the reason why around 4500 organs but tens of thousands of tissue donations for sick or injured patients are needed annually.
In the sector of tissue donation there is now a cooperative undertaking between the Charité and the DHZB, named "Tissue...
June 2010:
At the beginning of May the administrative director of the DHZB, Dipl-Ing. Thomas Höhn, and the heart surgeon General Professor Xianghua Zhang from the Military Hospital 309 in Peking signed a cooperation agreement.
The contract covers cooperation between the two institutions concerning the treatment of cardiovascular...
June 2010:
The Ronald McDonald House in Seestrasse has been extended to cover seven instead of three storeys, with an increase in the number of apartments from 28 to 34 and the addition of a modern pavilion. The reopening was celebrated by invited guests. The patron Yvonne Ransbach and the chairman of the Ronald McDonald Children's Foundation greeted around...
April 2010:
Government’s Second Economic Stimulus Package Facilitates Building Work
In the years 2007 and 2008 the central operating tract (rooms 1-6) was remodeled, extended and renovated, requiring concerted efforts on the part of the DHZB staff, the participation of numerous building firms, and organization with the precision of military logistics; Berlin’s first hybrid operating room was opened. Now it has been the turn of OR...
April 2010:
At the end of 2009 the DHZB partner institution, the Paulinen Hospital, opened its new conference center, which provides modern rooms for conferences, symposia and meetings for up to 110 participants. The former annex to the main building has been thoroughly remodeled and now houses the conference center's two halls and a modern kitchen that is...
January 2010:
In mid-December the European Register for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices was launched and the statutes approved. Currently, the following are participants in the Register: the DHZB, the Heart and Diabetes Center in Bad Oeynhausen, the Department for Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery of the University of Aachen, the University Hospital of...
January 2010:
A Charité/DHZB Joint Project
At the beginning of the year the Marfan Center, founded jointly by Charité-Universitätsmedizin and the DHZB and located in the DHZB, was opened. The interdisciplinary Marfan team is led and coordinated by Prof. Roland Hetzer and, as his deputy, Prof. Felix Berger. Senior physician Dr. Petra Gehle is the organizational head. Recent changes in the law allow hospitals...
January 2010:
Strong, bright and self-confident – that applies not only to Berlin but also to the heavy bronze sculpture, the golden Julius, that is awarded annually for special service to the city. Each year a personality from the world of economics, science, culture or the media receives the prize. Further prizes are awarded to young newcomers in these fields and for special...
January 2010:
Living with the Spare Parts of Cardiac Medicine
Are we all on the way to becoming cyborgs? Probably we have always been on the way there, since the desire to imitate nature in order to restore lost functions of the human body is very old and has always been particularly strong when wars and epidemics have threatened humanity. The wooden leg or the gold facial epithesis represent the oldest attempts to restore...
November 2009:
Congress: European and International Day of Organ Donation
In Europe there is a glaring shortage of donor organs. At present around 63,000 people are waiting for an organ, about 12,000 of them in Germany. Every day about 12 people on the organ waiting list die.
Participants from over 60 countries attended the 5th international and 11th European day of organ donation, which was followed by the...
