Newsletter "Berlin Medical News" November 2018

Medical care in Berlin 

Did you know that around 21,000 international patients visit Berlin every year for diagnostics or medical treatment? With over 80 hospitals, 20,000 beds and 9,300 hospital doctors, the German capital offers an outstanding network of specialists in almost every medical field. 

We take care of medical travels 

Since 2017, our medical website has been keeping patients all over the world up to date on options for medical treatment and diagnostics in Berlin’s hospitals and doctor’s surgeries. The webpage offers a choice of several languages and filters, so you can search for the right medical facility in Berlin for you. You can also find inspiring leisure activities and useful factsheets for preparing a medical travel to Berlin.

Vivantes Hospital Group 

Patients with liver metastases that seemed inoperable may now find a cure at Vivantes, Germany’s largest state-owned hospital group. The technique called ALLPS (Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy) enables surgeons to only remove the tumorous section of the liver, leaving the healthy part to grow. Vivantes chief physician Prof. Dr. Martin Loss belonged to the team that developed this technique, presently performed at just a handful of hospitals around the world.

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Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

In a new study, researchers from the Institute for Experimental Pediatric Endocrinology of the Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have successfully treated patients whose obesity is caused by a genetic defect.The research at Europe’s largest university hospital in cooperation with the Clinical Research Unit at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) could result in developing a new drug and, in the future, help patients with genetic obesity.

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Roy J. Noack 

Mr. Noack is CEO of the Immanuel Hospital. With two hospitals in Berlin and a specialized outpatient centre focusing on rheumatology and naturopathy, it is one of the largest medical centres in Germany.

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Prof. Dr. Marcus Mall

Prof. Dr. Marcus Mall is considered one of the world’s most renowned experts in pediatric pulmonology with a focus on cystic fibrosis. In February 2018, he was appointed as the Director of the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pneumonology and Immunology with intensive Medicine at Charité - Campus Virchow-Klinikum.

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