An active medical device having an improved discrimination between an awake phase of a patient and a sleep phase of a patient. This device measures a physiological parameter of a patient, delivers a physiological signal with a slow time response variation, in particular a signal of minute-ventilation (signal MV), and detects whether the patient is in a phase of awakening or sleep.

A system of fee-per-exam charging for the use of medical devices such as bone sonometers and x-ray densitometers.

A medical system has a number of data processors which are allocated to medical organizational units of a similar type or of different types, these data processors being connected for data exchange.

A method for treating hot flashes in a castrated prostatic cancer patient who is diagnosed with hot flashes warranting treatment or who is experiencing at least approximately 5 hot flashes per day is provided in which from 25 mg to 150 mg cyproterone acetate per day is orally administered to the patient.

Apparatus and method are described for delivery of a treating element, such as a radiation source, through a catheter to a desired site in the intraluminal passageways of a patient, such as a coronary artery, for inhibiting the formation of scar tissue such as may occur in restenosis following balloon angioplasty.

An iontophoretic drug delivery system including a patch, a controller and a magazine. The patch may be secured in a compartment formed in the magazine so that upon insertion of the controller along the magazine to fasten the controller to the patch, a dry drug contained in the patch is hydrated and the patch and controller can be removed from the magazine for attachment to the skin of a patient.

A medical apparatus has an apparatus part which is provided for application against the body surface of a patient, and a patient support mechanism and a system for adjusting the apparatus part and the patient support mechanism relative to each other.

A portable, customized patient support system is provided for maintaining a person in a substantially upright sitting position. The system has a seat cushion, a back cushion and left and right lateral trunk brace cushions. Each of the cushions is selected to conform to certain measured dimensions of the person. The cushions are secured to each other using interconnecting devices.

An apparatus for producing pressure pulses intended for application to the external acoustic meatus of a patient, for the purpose of influencing the hydrodynamic system of the inner ear in the treatment of certain diseases, particularly Menieres disease, comprises two rotary air-pumps (1, 2) of variable, controllable speed.