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Tele-Med

Country: Germany
Added: 2006
Category: Medicine
Abstract: With the development of technology, the medical research is also going further. All kinds of new diseases instantly come out, such as melancholia, insomnia, miocardial infarction and blood poisoning. At the same time, more advanced treatments also appear, such as artificial organs, hormone, radiation treatment, gene research and so on. A lot of new medicine also urge a new industry — medicine test. In Germany, now there are about 20,000 people are testing products for many big companies, from shampoo to schizophrenia medicine. And how do these research go on? How can consumers be protected? You can get all these answers in this series.

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    Tele-Med: Schizophrenia

    Psychological disorders are common. They affect around a third of us at some point in our lives. Around half of all the patients in psychiatric care suffer from some forms of schizophrenia. Now, modern technology is being enlisted to help solve the mystery of psychosis. But what are the possible biological causes of schizophrenia? Test showed that the disorder was not caused by bad genes alone.
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    Tele-Med: Depression Caused by Virus

    It had always been thought that endogenous depression — depression of internal origin — was either hereditary or due to stress. But now some scientists believe that depression can be caused by a virus which is called "Borna virus". Even if the hypotheses about the Borna virus should prove to be wrong, they've brought a breath of fresh air into psychiatry.
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    Tele-Med: Blood Poisoning

    Besides heart attack and cancer, sepsis has also become a big killer threatening human's life. For a long time, doctors underestimated both the frequency and the dangers of sepsis. Only recently has intensive research begun on the illness and its causes. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It can strike anyone. Critical care physicians do the best they can to fight it, but it’s not enough. Training all doctors to recognize the early symptoms of sepsis is the only way to prevent more deaths.
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    Tele-Med: Secrets of Bushmen

    Nearly everyone heard of devil’s claw. It not only reduces pain but also rebuilds cartilage. Because of its golden-brown root, devil’s claw is known as “Namibia’s gold”. Demand for this plant has soared ever since it became known that devil’s claw can reduce the pain from arthritis by sixty percent. Another plant hoodia, allegedly has appetite-inhibiting properties. Even today Bushmen out hunting for days on end use hoodia to suppress hunger and thirst. With stands in the wild diminishing, attempts are being made to cultivate these plants.
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    Tele-Med: Radiation Therapy

    Radiation therapy has always been the last choice for the cancer-sufferers. It can bring healing, but it can also destroy human life. Recent years have seen the development of a new form of radiation treatment, known as “intensity modulated radiation therapy” or IMRT. Computer technology and ultra-modern imaging techniques seem to have resulted in a breakthrough in the struggle against cancer.
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    Tele-Med: BSE and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

    Since 1995, in Britain, more than 100 people have died from a new form of an otherwise very rare illness known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD. Has BSE crossed the species barrier into humans? Are we threatened with a major epidemic? Or will the number of cases remain relatively small?
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    Tele-Med: Stem Cells in Medical Treatment

    Some diseases like sickle cell anaemia and Parkinson's are very dangerous genetic diseases and have been regarded as “incurable” for many years. It is hoped that embryonic stem cells will soon be able to help in the treatment of these diseases. But since the removal of stem cells results in the death of an embryo, research on embryonic stem cells is a highly controversial issue.
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    Tele-Med: Genetic Detectives at Work

    Different genes mean different predispositions to sickness.Today, an intensive search is taking place for individual genetic differences that constitute a predisposition to various common serious diseases. Scientists hope to test healthy people individually and, in the event of a predisposition being identified, to motivate them to take preventive steps. They also hope to be able to treat the sick on a more individual basis, and to develop drugs that are geared to individual targets.
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    Tele-Med: Hormones

    Hormones influence body, mind and psyche. They are the messengers that control all the important functions: reproduction, sensation of pain, heartbeat, immune system, muscle structure, metabolism, mood and gender. Can the aging process be slowed down by hormones? Many interactions are still unknown, which means that hormone therapies should be used with caution. They are certainly not yet an efficient or above all safe means of counteracting the effects of aging.
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    Tele-Med: Manipulating the Brain

    In recent years brain researchers have made discoveries that have stood our tradition views of personality and consciousness on their head. Feelings, thoughts, intentions — ultimately these are all nothing but the results of biochemical impulses in our brain. Brain is a physical formula with many unknowns, but also the one that scientists are beginning to decipher.
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    Tele-Med: Healing Power from Desert — Secrets of Xhosa

    To many of us, deserts seem inhospitable regions. Yet that is a misconception. It is in the deserts of all places that extraordinary plant worlds have developed. Some desert plants live for countless years while others possess amazing healing properties. One of the plants in the pharmacy of the desert, the Cape pelargonium, is already seen as an alternative to antibiotics. Another plant, sutherlandia, is used to treat AIDS.
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    Tele-Med: Footscan Technology

    Some people have to be on their feet all day long because of their job and would soon lose it if they had trouble walking. Others are overweight, unfit, and suffer from diabetes. They all often suffer from problems with their knees and ankles, as do sportsmen and women. Thanks to footscan technology, now disorders of the joints can at least be detected at an early stage and treated.
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    Tele-Med: The Flu Virus

    The flu virus is like fashion — a new look every season. So the body’s existing defences are quickly out of style. Small changes lead to small outbreaks, big ones to huge, maybe worldwide epidemics. Now the scientists are analyzing the flu viruses and they hope to control and prevent epidemic through biological means.
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    Tele-Med: Anaesthetics

    We know the immediate effects of most of the familiar anaesthetics on the central nervous system. They interfere with processes in the membrane or the synapses. The interesting thing is that we still don’t know exactly how these substances work. We know they do work; we know what doses to apply; but how exactly they induce unconsciousness, no one knows.
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    Tele-Med: Immune System

    Whether we’re healthy or sick depends first and foremost on how effectively our body’s immune system is working. Scientists are coming to recognize ever more clearly the decisive role played by the immune system in the progress of many diseases. Our inner defences have not yet yielded up all their secrets. We still don’t understand their sophisticated strategies for attacking intruders, nor do we know why they sometimes fail. But one thing is certain: the better the immune system functions, the less likely we are to fall ill.
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    Tele-Med: Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotics

    Since the early 1990s, we have been coming across more and more multi-resistant bacteria, in other words, resistant to up to ten different antibiotics. Resistance is caused by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Antibiotics are seen as growth promoters, and then they’re administered prophylactically. Restraint of antibiotics is an important prerequisite if the present trend is to be stopped. It would be a tragedy if the blessing of antibiotics were to become a curse.
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    Tele-Med: Tissue Engineering

    Today there is a new branch of medicine: tissue engineering, the breeding of new organs in the laboratory.The goal is to create organs made to measure: artificially bred from human cells, and then grown into the desired form and function. Everywhere, people with incurable diseases are waiting for organ transplants. But organs from donors are only ever the second-best solution, and in any case there are never enough.
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    Tele-Med: The Artificial Gene

    So far there's no medicine to conquer AIDS virus. Two scientists from Hamburg rest all their hopes on a new, controversial medical treatment. They are trying to use man-made genes to prevent assistant cells being penetrated and use protein crust to prevent virus reproducing. Using gene method to cure AIDS, will this treatment be effective in animal experiment? Will this method be able to cure human AIDS sufferers?
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    Tele-Med: The Artificial Organs

    Nowadays the scientists are trying to create an inexhaustible source of new, body-own tissue derived from therapeutic cloning. They hope to use them to grow any organ you care to name. Their ultimate aim is to grow entire organs as spare parts for future generations of patients. There are so many patients waiting for organs for transplant: kidneys, bladders, livers. That’s why bio-engineers want to develop spare-part organ technology as soon as possible to the point where it can be used in clinical practice.
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    Tele-Med: Under the Skin

    Several years ago, a journey through the human body is still a fairy tale. But today, it is very common. The endoscope revolutionized medical techniques. It has extended the eye of the doctor and allowed him to gaze into the internal organs. We now have an insight, quite literally, into the interior of the human body.
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    Tele-Med: The Mice Palace

    The university near Nuremberg in Bavaria has the most modernized animal laboratory in Germany. Here the scientists are conducting the genetic research and test the new substances. Their purpose is to reduce the pains of experimental animals to the greatest extent. But not all pains can be released. In this program, we shall introduce the testing equipment and testing method here, analyze the advantages and disavantages of experiments on animals.
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    Tele-Med: Food Allergies

    Allergies are on the increase in many countries. For allergy-sufferers, the result could be diarrhoea, a serious rash, breathing problems or even sudden and severe circulation failure. They react not only to different food allergens, but react differently. In this program, we shall discuss the topic of food allergy.
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    Tele-Med: Insomnia

    Around one fourth of people in Germany are complaining about bad sleeping quality. Bad sleeping often leads to health problem. Then how much do the clinical doctors and researchers know about insomnia? In today's program, we shall introduce all kinds of insomnia-sufferers' symptoms, the potential dangers of hypnotic and how to re-acquire good sleeping.
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    Tele-Med: Our Brains

    Brain is the organ with which we think, feel, and perceive the outside world, and which is the location of what we call the soul. Brain research in the last 15 years has become one of the most fascinating projects in science. Microelectronics — having transformed so many aspects of our lives — has now revolutionized this area too. Without opening up our skulls, scientists are now able not only to present our brains on the computer screen, they can even watch them thinking.
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    Tele-Med: Bacteria and Cardiovascular Disease

    Heart attacks and strokes are the great killers of our time. In the industrialized world, we've been taught they are caused by too much fatty food, smoking and stress. Scientists are convinced that neither fat consumption nor other risk factors can adequately explain the fluctuating incidence of cardiovascular disease. They have associated many bacteria with arteriosclerosis. But neither herpes nor any other viral pathogen has so far been identified as a player in the deadly game of heart disease.
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    Tele-Med: Genome Research

    As we make progress in deciphering the human genes, with the genome project in other words, there is no doubt that we shall discover other points of attack for immunological or bio-technological therapies, so that we’ll be able to target a particular point on a tumour and destroy it, while leaving the rest of the organism as far as possible in peace. Many scientists in this field are becoming increasingly keen on genome research. New drugs, new therapies from genome research, are increasingly giving grounds for hope that many different illnesses will be conquered.
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    Tele-Med: New Drugs

    The saliva and venom of some animals are possibly the sources of some new medicine. Therefore scientists are getting more interested in vampire bats, vipers and strange mollusks. All these creatures have one thing in common: they are endowed with very complicated and ingenious biochemical organisms after millions of years' evolution. The medicine companies in the world hope to discover these treasures. Now continuous discovery of new animals' and plants' chemical components has become an unavoidable task for the whole medicine industry.
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    Tele-Med: Looking for New Medicines

    Although medical science develops very fast nowadays, we still witness that doctors can do nothing about many diseases. Therefore many developed countries speed up the delvelopment of new medicines and seek for the effective ways to deal with those fatal diseases. While in those underdeveloped countries, diseases like malaria , HIV spread like prairie fire. This program will introduce the scientists' research and development of new medicines and the difficulties they encountered.
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    Tele-Med: Pharmaceutical Tests

    In Germany, more than twenty thousand people earn money by allowing pharmaceutical companies to try out drugs on them. Before it can be marketed, every new drug has to be tried out on humans to make sure there are no risks involved, ranging from shampoo to pills against schizophrenia. It is not the healing effect of a new drug that is tested, but the unpleasant side effects. In this program, we shall see how pharmaceutical tests are carried out and what protective precautions will be taken for the human guinea pigs.
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    Tele-Med: The Fight Against Hereditary Disease

    On one hand, genetic screening for diseases which are treatable if recognized at an early stage has fairly widespread support. But on the other hand, many untreatable diseases can be tested, but there’s no way of stopping them from breaking out.This is why many doctors, moral theologians and lawyers think general genetic screening is problematic.
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    Tele-Med: Healing with Herbs and Needles

    In Europe, Chinese traditional medicine is a phrase that sounds very magic. This is a very gentle treament on the whole and often can create miracles. In this program, we shall visit the clinics and hospitals of Chinese traditional medicine, see how doctors of Chinese traditional medicine and Western medicine cooperate together to bestead patients.
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    Tele-Med: Vaccines

    The threat from all the various pathogens — the organisms that cause disease — they kill about 17 million people worldwide every year. 17 millions of us were cut off in the prime of life by simple microorganisms. People in the Middle Ages were still pretty much at the mercy of the bacteria and viruses that caused diseases. But nowadays we know an awful lot about them, and we have vaccines and drugs to combat them!


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