Womens Imaging: Page 164

Carestream nets Latvian CR mammography install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health's authorized distributor for Latvia, NMS Grupa, has received an order for Carestream's computed radiography (CR) mammography package in the city of Riga, the Rochester, NY-based company said.
May 14, 2008
Family history of breast cancer confers lifetime elevated risk
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 14 - Women who have a sister diagnosed with breast cancer remain at increased risk of breast cancer throughout their lives, epidemiologists in Sweden report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for May 21.
May 13, 2008
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Dilon nets CE Mark
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Scintimammography developer Dilon Technologies has received the European CE Mark for its Dilon 6800 gamma camera.
May 5, 2008
Cytyc merger boosts Hologic's Q2 financials
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Women's imaging vendor Hologic reported substantial revenue increases for its second quarter of 2008, which the company attributed to the new product lines it acquired when it merged with Cytyc last October.
April 30, 2008
Breast MRI with USPIO contrast helps assess lymph node metastases
By Cynthia E. Keen
Austrian researchers have found that breast MRI with a contrast medium based on ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) particles could help avoid mastectomy for women whose breast cancer has not spread to the lymph nodes. But further development of the technique could be limited by the investigational nature of the contrast agent.
April 24, 2008
MR-guided ultrasound surgery of uterine fibroids is cost-effective
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 21 - Surgical management of symptomatic uterine fibroids can be accomplished cost-effectively with magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS), Canadian and British investigators report in the March issue of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
April 20, 2008
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Siemens wins Scottish FFDM contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has earned a contract to install multiple full-field digital mammography (FFDM) systems in Scottish hospitals, the Erlangen, Germany-based firm reported.
April 16, 2008
IMS gets Canadian install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Italian mammography firm Internazionale Medico Scientifica (IMS) and Canadian distributor BCL X-Ray Canada have installed IMS' Giotto digital mammography system at Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, Ontario.
April 9, 2008
Hormone therapy raises risk of breast cancer recurrence
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Mar 26 - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) not only increases the risk of first-time breast cancer, it also makes recurrence of the malignancy more likely, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for April 2.
March 25, 2008
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MRI beats mammography, US in detecting breast cancer in high-risk women
By Cynthia E. Keen
VIENNA - Breast MRI should be an integral part of annual breast cancer surveillance for high-risk women, according to researchers from Vienna. They compared mammography, ultrasound, and MRI for breast cancer screening in this patient population, and presented their findings at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR).
March 11, 2008
Carestream nets digital mammo orders
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health of Rochester, NY, has received several contracts for its digital mammography products.
March 11, 2008
Radiology helps Israel meet unique healthcare needs
By Cynthia E. Keen
VIENNA - Attendees at this week's European Congress of Radiology (ECR) got a closer look at how radiology is practiced in Israel at the conference's "ECR meets Israel" session on Sunday. Representatives from the country's radiology community described how PACS helps the country with its unique healthcare needs, and also outlined Israel's breast screening program.
March 9, 2008
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