the one darren goals to health smart nature, the more likes watching it on youtube dw documentary, the more and more children and young people who has been diagnosed with cancer are surviving it . according to the world health organization. 4 out of 5 children cannot be cured. a lot of current research is trying to home in on white standard therapy. don't help them care and why they don't respond to 1st line treatment. at a pediatric kansas center and southern germany. experts are working on new ways to help pick exactly the right medication. for their young patients that story and much more this week on dw science program. welcome to tomorrow. today.

watching i couldn't play, you'd have no idea that he's fighting a deadly disease. every day, it all began a year ago. his family was taking a holiday and the boy drifted off to sleep on his mother's stomach often and costs enough and he had his head tilting back like this isn't an this thing really po, down like an egg. as soon as we tell him that that's not normal, comes in coming onto the cook. so we headed straight to a hospital and 100 invitation. i did an online and then said he had cancer. it was like the end of the world for us that i could, suffers from the rear form of pediatric cancer because as tumor couldn't be removed surgically, the doctors immediately started a 1st course of chemotherapy and not us name. your life changes really fast. one minute, everything's fine and if you have a healthy child, then everything changes on this, this diagnosis and you have to get through it that way you have no other choice are . more than 2000 children and germany are diagnosed with cancer every year. at the

hop, children's cancer center in heidelberg, all that has a project that gives hope to young patients. if it's once it puts into can uh, for 20 percent of our child patients, we don't currently have any effective therapies available so entirely. so that's partly due to the fact of kansas in children and other lessons are different significantly from those in adults. dorothy funding does have oxygen. i just, what i mean is that drugs which have mainly been developed for adults, a box on no longer simply transferred one to one to children these days or 2 of a cognizant. the 1st course of chemotherapy failed, and i quits condition grew worse before long. he could hardly breathe at night, and matego must, here's what the m r i showed some push and everything that's larger in color here is the cancer. often verifying the image, everything look closed out of this. it was like a rope around his neck. he was already getting it through a hole, 2 or 3 millimeters wine and

a mutual. that's why it was so minimal that when they put him down to sleep, they had to give them adrenalin cortisone to open up his airway. and the state told us that it was so tight he just had to bring the wrong ones, and that would be a cash off in nevada, i could urgently needed a drug to stop the tumor that there was no treatment for his cancer that could guarantee success still, his family refused to give up and were supported by a dedicated doctor in mines. the whole thought she just kept on fighting and she said, we call and given now we have to do more surgery to death because she said we taking the biopsy and send it to heidelberg to see what might help. there's some kind of tumors samples from all over. europe are sent the heidelberg and behind every one of them is a child with cancer. the children all need an effective treatment. just know to cancers are identical. researchers analyze each tumors character takes as precisely

as possible. they search for its unique weak spots looking for clues that might tell them how best to attack it. there are hundreds of potentially effective therapies on the market, but most of them were developed for adults to find out whether they could also help a child miniature tumors or cultivated from the children's cancer samples incubators, like this house around $1000.00, many tumors per child, a 1000 guinea pigs each expose to a particular cancer drug on behalf of a young patient coming out program help pinpointing the right medication for the patient from a wide range of possibilities individual, inputted the police do also called mosquito the machine uses. need those to dispense the cancer drive. 80 different active compounds are dripped onto the grid plate and 5 concentrations each well and the plate contains

a mini tumor which is treated for 3 days. the maybe cut off to the drugs of being dispensed. we looked at whether the mini team is dying. we want to see the cancer cells react and find out which drugs they react to. we've tried the cells and when the sample tends green, we know the cells are starting to die. that's when a drug zeros of interest, to see it. that way, many different substances can be tested simultaneously from a multitude of choices. the doctors can then select promising candidates and exclude therapies that aren't likely to help me to come at and testing our drug program is in the late experimental phase of them and to we successfully completed a 3 year pause place. and so the patients can benefit from it, because it does puts in the form that we haven't systematically evaluated as a large number of patients yet. and on this on. and i was that. and so i can put in this mazda of else,

cuz the numbers list sensitivity profiling help. i codes on college just in mines, choose a truck that's normally used to treat melanoma. they already noticed the difference after the 1st day of treatment. and now i could, can finally brief freely again during the testing and heidelberg, the medication was very effective on the many tumors derived from codes, cancer tissue. the drug sensitivity profiling process worked initially as big as a tangerine i codes tumor has now shrunk to the size of a razor. get sofa is doing great feed. he plays, he runs around lives, his life. i live, he doesn't have breathing problems anymore and sleeps better. who is on the phone to out of the us. it's like if things stay like this, he has a chance to live life. who is the 1st child in germany, who's doing well with this type of tumor? so his story provides hope for other young cancer patients who might be saved by

the drug profiling process, entitled are the relatives to care along with dedicated medical staff and doctors can help mitigate the effects of cancer and accelerate the healing process. and a quick return to health relies in no small part on the atmosphere in award. when it comes to architecture, most clinic sacrifice aesthetics to folks from function. but with the right planning that you can go hand in hand in innovative hospital shows how the are lots of wood and glass and an outdoorsy field that continues into the interior. it's a building that seems to breed more than 20 years ago. so it's based architectural firm helps. so again, to more on designed rehab bozza, the client had one main request. the building had to function as

a hospital wasn't supposed to feel like one over 2 decades later, the architect in charge of the project coasting have been sprung up handle hospitals, current directors, stuff on bachman. take a stroll through the light field building. there's little bits reminiscent of an ordinary hospital. it doesn't smell like one, and there are no confusing signs here. but as to the cost of paying with us, either my suspect that'll have money about one of the big issues. most hospitals have long corridors lined with doors failed and you're usually guided to where you're going with arrows. different colors of signs to show you the way. on an off here, the 1st thing you see is nature. i'll see it when i as, as even on a day like today when the weather isn't particularly nice. so insurance. 10 interior court yard skipped free, have basel an unmistakable atmosphere scene nasty. it's the inner courtyard step,

provide orientation on those. each is different in terms of dimension, the different things go in the inner court yards of the light falls differently. and then you remember that i know that's where i have to go left me. this cluster of birch trees, for example, is on the way to the therapy station. you look at the day of the year, there's an open door which is kind of a rare office. there are countries where you're not allowed to open windows and hospitals just for fear of pathogens coming in from outside. but it's a huge improvement the quality in the large opening, the fresh air, different, you know, the indoor climate, nature and simple orientation aids are for sick people in particular. that's the focus of tonya phone, macros work. the berlin based architectural psychologist studies how these factors can help reduce stress levels. a ben, monday's success, they don't see it or that you reduce the stress or prevent it in the 1st place.

then patients experienced significantly less nausea during certain therapy that pain is measurably reduced treatments cause less anxiety. patients are willing to have a therapy and don't reject it in one. there's also a fairly old study by an american colleague just found that in patients are easier to care for, legalized doesn't, form is university studies and biology and psychology. you have also shaped or research happened, an aspect of creation which via kind my 1st conversations with people seriously. with cancer, i noticed that they use spatial matter for us to express their suffering and their fears. they would say things like, i feel as though i fallen into a dark hole. i'm standing in front of a wall. i'm stuck on the slide when the body falls seriously hill space it then habits does to home. mit in rehab positive has been a success with patients and doctors a like today has all going to move on design hospitals around the world with major

projects in denmark, san francisco, and a new pediatric hospital in zurich, switzerland the on a table, staff, father's new hospitals, in germany, fewer and fewer people are choosing to enter caregiver profession. even though there are more and more old people in particular who need care. little technology seem be able to fill the gap with robots. maybe one day in the distant future, put some mechanical helpers, at least, are already proving to be able assistance. good morning, highlanders and team were delighted to welcome you here at the carry test care center. meet pepper jamie and johnny. they work at the st. johannes social care center for seniors and the german town of elin box. the 3

robots are schumann know ident appearance, and that's a big advantage. this is on our clinic. it helps when the hearts of the elderly clients. so yeah, i'm just place very appealing and terms of it's anatomy. i know it has a kind of child like appearance, and it's head is at eye level with our senior citizens who are always sitting down when the m, as in the pepper has been in service here for almost 4 years. the robot costs around 40000 euro is back down. money well spent as the morning exercise session shows, in taker for our pep or your fitness trainer. i hope you feel like doing a few exercises with the today in the lymphoma. while pepper gives instructions, the nursing staff assist clients with the exercises. without it that wouldn't be possible. pepper and the other robots engage with the clients, but also perform other tasks. if an elderly client were to get up and expectedly from their nap and take a full,

jamie could alert the human staff. it's another layer of safety and the daily routine. do you me to apply to having to, to least of course the staff always have an eye on clients in need of care, but now they can sometimes carry out other activities at the same time. yeah, and he provides entertainment with little dance routines and reminds the seniors to take their medication. please take your medicine down. a glass of water is available. thank. in principle, at least the nursing staff doesn't even have to be in the room. johnny is also able to act completely independently display phones. so we never do that though because it's important to us that the human care isn't replace. and then there's always a caregiver there and call me on this pepper. jamie and johnny are not classified as actual care robots. they're not skilled enough for that. yeah. but what's in

store in the future is being researched in nearby bavaria, where the robot gummy might one day help elderly people with daily tasks is to see the see. that's our goal is to support patients for as long as possible, so that they continue to live at home independently with some mechanical assistance initially. that's still a long way down the road. the gummy is still very much a research project. along with every day assistance that might also play a role in tele medicine one day. for 4 years, dr. otto, charlie unnecessary, and his team has been researching how robotics and artificial intelligence might be used effectively in the health care sector. gummy is constantly being taught new skills like interpreting more complex needs. it can recognize facial expressions, what is this, how the pain and so on, based on this,

you decide on your trigger actions. so it kind of cool, nice if a person for the dog, this is old vision pipelines, but it can come eyes visually the meets. so from the audio side, based on asking questions also to, to, to the patient for extensive advice as the patient can say. i'm thirsty and then do you need the bottle of water or tea or hot tea or i am cold? should i bring you blanket the drug and andrew tele medicine the robot could also soon start playing a more important role. this patient is in pain. he says it started suddenly while he was reading ok, good to assign, but i will carry out a remote exam with grammy's help with the aid of tactile sensors gone, you can assess the patient's strength and range of movement. that information is sent to the doctor who uses it to assess the symptoms. it doesn't matter if the patient is in the doctor's office or many kilometers away. vtc

coming but say the important thing is that i can talk to the patients. they can hear me and i can hear them. you can have a conversation before i can reassure the patient and examine them even if from a distance. as a doctor, it often happens that patients ask for a consult straight away. really, if i have to drive 10 or 20 kilometers out into the countryside to see them, that can really be an issue for him. holly is also a care robot though with a different design, then government that can provide support when administering medication. i can also push patients along pre defined paths in a wheelchair hallway can also assist with obtaining medical histories for documenting boons during a test and a pre defined environment. holly managed quite well, but a real hospital or a care environment is more complex. for not always is,

there are often small issues that a human can figure out without even noticing the much which still present a major challenge to a robot photo. but the technology is advancing rapidly and the more sophisticated it's programming, the more a robot can do. some experts predict robots could be used in the care giving and health care sectors within about 10 years. but size and weight are often still a problem and so is the price not including expenses for research and personnel gone. the costs around 300000 bureaus on the medical devices. it is, it is just but we want to go low cost, but this $1.00, it's not only dependent on us, but we depend also to involve. also, the insurance has to come and we come together in order to build a business model for how they can afford it in, in and box. at least the smaller robotic systems are already playing

a role in every day care. but a support, a powerful tool. the it all started with this ballet at the zurich opera house, entitled, the cellist, it tells the story of jacqueline to pray, a talented english musician for suffered a tragic fate. in her mid twenties, she felt filled with multiple sclerosis and soon lost what she loved most playing the cello. the moving piece was choreographed by the opera's new valet director kathy marston to shop 3. just like look him. so $11.00 and then jessica. yeah, exactly. it needs to be natural, us, and then the former professional dancer translated m. s. symptoms into artistic movement. she's familiar with a tremors and weakness the disease causes,

and that was personal for me because my mother lives with multiple sclerosis. and so it did feel like something that i, i was drawn to express and dance if it was interestingly a way for me to understand more about the way that my mother lives. now. she still moves around the house. she has fixed, she has a frame, she has a wheelchair for when she goes out to try sometimes to, to go to apply to use and keep moving. i mean, it's obviously compromised in a way, but if it has to keep moving, that's, that's what she really realizes. the awareness of how important movement is for people with them as the choreographer to develop a new dance project called connect the cloud. the, i believe the don'ts and music can change sides can connect as a cooperative project involving 0 opera house, the cities tone, honda concert hall in partners who specialize in dance therapy,

topping that deep well of expertise. the aim is to establish a weekly dance training program for people who faced neurological challenges such as multiple sclerosis or parkinson's disease. what i see is that it offers an inspiration, a sense of feeling your body again, of hearing music and moving and expressing yourself to music see movement. and you know, actually my dad has parkinson's. now, that's a recent development and a co, incidental one. but i can see that 3 moving to making shapes with your body. you find a different relationship, begin to a sense of balance, your sense of muscle control researchers at the loo, sir, and university of applied sciences and arts are involved in a related project. they're investigating how music and dance might help parkinson's patients. that symptoms include tremors, muscle stiffness,

and problems with walking, but also motivation issues. using psychologist don rose, heads up the research. so music has 2 important properties. one is organizational, so this is the rhythm or the beach in the music. so in the matching, this is very simple. can that at that the, the and then the walking steps kind of go in time with the rhythm. and then the other aspect is the motivational side of music. so it makes any exercise more fun. thoughts. they buy agrees. she's been living with parkinson's for 7 years. also make the most seeking to me that i just get involved with it more when as music, i think of this that music is one of those things that makes every day life easy off in school society for, for the home to acquire data research team set up a motion capture lab edit subjects are fitted with sensors and their exact

movements are recorded by several and for red cameras. the precise measurements are used to create a 3 d model. and this allows the scientists to determine the effects of listening to music and dancing directly. the project breaks new ground. in parkinson's research, we're looking at functional, my bill, etc. so how they reach will some saying what quality of movement is changing. and of course, we kind of embed this within the dump. thanks. so quite often we will be asking them to do something on one like into the other. but this of course is to really practice the balance. but it doesn't feel like you're practicing balance because everyone's having funds on say what the researchers work closely with the people effective who don't grow, who's called the real experts. many don't want to dance and hairs, but in groups through a range of different music genres. dismiss

hash, it opens up my heart and fills it out. it's just nice. it makes you happy skipped. so the, the high one of the subjects in the study these that was diagnosed with arkansas in 6 years ago. she has trouble with some move mass and just sometimes plague by painful muscle graphs. she hopes, taking part and will help her redeem skills that others take for granted. self. speakerphone la, i realize that i feel like my balance is off when i woke. i want to feel most secure and confident again that i can walk in a straight line and not always leave around thoughts and especially most welcome to you. there's still no cure for parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis. but dancing offers people who are affected by those diseases, the chance to remain independent, longer improving their physical control and quality of life and the connect project and others. some people have never left with dance in the way i have,

of course. but what i want to do is offer that you can experience what it is to move your body and unexpressed of us cystic way. and i want to say that was before, even if they failed, it is too late, or they con, they can do you have a passion for science and health? check out d, w signs the kick talking. why do coming does not get drunk. why do gravitational waves squeeze out bodies? how much was it? do we need to pay days? do stressed out on screen for help know and what is the perfect queue of football by find beyond says yes, mos on dw science. oh, take talk channel. that's all for this week and tomorrow today,

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