After long efforts, our Taiwanese exclusive representative HOSHI achieved the Taiwan FDA registration for the superficial hyperthermia hydrosun®TWH1500 device. It is a great step to make thermography thermographic-controlled wIRA superficial hyperthermia available for patients in Taiwan.
Completing a longlasting registration process, whole-body hyperthermia device heckel-HT3000 has got the Thai FDA registration and is available in Thailand.
In 1957, Ferdinand Hoff, one of the most reputated specialists and author of the general standard textbook of internal medicine, published a book "Fieber, unspezifische Abwehrvorgänge, unspezifische Therapie" (Fever, unspecific defense mechanisms, unspecific therapy).
The therapeutic effects of hot "fever bathes" were comprehensively described among others by Lampert, Schlenz, Devrient, and Walinski, as a treatment for especially infectious and inflammatory diseases.
The antibiotic's and corticoid's triumph was of course a blessing for mankind, especially in the treatment of acute diseases, but it abruptlyinterrupted the long tradition of heat therapy, almost terminating it completely.
Realizing the limits and side-effects of the drug therapies in many chronic diseases, it is worth reviving and renewing the concept of whole-body hyperthermia.
The pioneers of modern whole-body hyperthermia are Manfred von Ardenne, whose work focused on using extreme oncological hyperthermia of about 42°C in combination with hyperoxia and hyperglycemia to directly damage cancer cells, and Martin Heckel, who employed fever-range temperatures in order to boost respectively reset immune functions in case of chronic inflammation and to treat painful diseases of the locomotor system.
