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Medipattern lands Italian customer

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Medipattern has installed its B-CAD software at General Hospital in Gorizia, Italy.

December 16, 2007

Sectra grows sales in Q2

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Increased international sales of its medical systems powered Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra to improved financial results in the first half of the Linköping-based company's fiscal year.

December 3, 2007

Norway gives World Bank $150 million for healthcare

By Reuters Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters), Nov 28 - Norway on Tuesday announced $105 million in grant funding for the World Bank to explore innovative ways to improve healthcare systems in developing countries, especially for women and babies.

November 27, 2007

Dexela awarded development grant

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Breast imaging developer Dexela of London has been awarded a grant for 360,000 pounds ($ 744,156 U.S.) by U.K.'s Technology Strategy Board as part of a collaborative research and development program to improve digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) for early breast cancer detection.

November 27, 2007

Sectra scores Belgian digital mammo sale

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography vendor Sectra of Linköping announced its first Belgian order for its digital mammography system.

November 27, 2007

Wine may calm inflammation in blood vessels

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 28 - Adding to evidence that a little wine can do a heart good, a new study suggests that women who drink moderate amounts may have less inflammation in their blood vessels.

November 26, 2007

US-based minimally invasive treatments prove feasible for uterine fibroids

By Shalmali Pal

When it comes to the ultrasound-based treatment of uterine fibroids, clinicians should target patients whose benign tumors are not too big or not too small, according to two new studies. Researchers from Italy found that that percutaneous sonography-guided radiofrequency thermal ablation (RFA) was particularly adept at shrinking medium-sized fibroids, while a Japanese team found that MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) surgery was an optimal therapy option for fibroids with specific characteristics on preoperative imaging.

November 19, 2007

Sectra wins Danish contract

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra of Linköping has inked a deal with a Danish county for its Sectra MicroDose Mammography system, the company reported.

October 31, 2007

Three drinks a day ups breast cancer risk: study

By Reuters Health

BARCELONA (Reuters), Sep 28 - Three or more drinks a day, whether beer, wine or spirits, boost a woman's risk of breast cancer as much as smoking a pack of cigarettes, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

September 27, 2007

Simple test may help predict breast cancer return

By Reuters Health

BARCELONA (Reuters), Sep 25 - A simple test to measure tumor cells circulating in the blood could make it easier to tell which breast cancer patients are at greatest risk of their cancer returning after treatment, a German researcher said on Monday. The study is important because it is one of the largest of its kind to investigate whether measuring such tumor cells can help predict the chances of cancer returning, said Dr. Julia Jueckstock.

September 24, 2007

Men and women may need different heart treatments

By Reuters Health

VIENNA (Reuters), Sep 4 - The same invasive treatments for acute heart problems that can save lives in men may actually harm women, although reasons for this are unclear, researchers told the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual meeting on Monday. Study participants were divided into two equal groups and either given a routine invasive heart x-ray, followed by a heart procedure if needed, or simply monitored and only x-rayed if they showed symptoms.

September 3, 2007

Breast cancer-involved sentinel nodes often contain micrometastases

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 15 - Twenty-three percent of breast cancer patients with an involved sentinel lymph node have a sentinel node that contains micrometastases, according to a report in the August 1st issue of Cancer. Sixteen percent of patients have a sentinel node containing submicrometastases.

August 14, 2007

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