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Italy orders list of women with French firm's implants
By Reuters Health
ROME (Reuters) - Italy will tell hospitals and clinics to compile a list of women who received breast implants from a French firm accused of selling faulty prosthetics, Health Minister Renato Balduzzi said Thursday.
December 29, 2011
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AuntMinnieEurope.com MRI Insider
By Philip Ward
December 29, 2011
4D MRA progresses in cerebrovascular diseases
By Philip Ward
Time-resolved, or 4D, MR angiography (MRA) seems to be making rapid advances. The development of parallel-imaging techniques and hardware improvements such as gradient performance have enabled time-resolved MRA acquisition, which provides dynamic information at a feasible temporal resolution.
December 29, 2011
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IMRT, laser surgery improves survival in head/neck cancer
By Cynthia E. Keen
The combination of functional resection laser surgery and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment is more effective at extending the lives of patients with advanced head and neck cancers than having only radiotherapy treatment, according to a study presented at the recent RSNA 2011 conference in Chicago.
December 28, 2011
Top 10 AuntMinnieEurope stories for 2011
We're pleased to offer the top 10 stories of 2011 on AuntMinnieEurope.com as measured by member traffic. Hot topics in 2011 were clinicians' requirements for radiology reports, PET/MRI, the extended role of radiographers, the regulatory threat to clinical MRI, and the ongoing breast screening debate.
December 28, 2011
Teleradiology brings VC to island outpost
By Eric Barnes
Virtual colonoscopy outperformed optical colonoscopy in an unusual teleradiology project that successfully screened hundreds of patients in Madeira, a Portuguese island off the coast of Morocco.
December 27, 2011
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France tries to calm women over scandal-hit implants
By Reuters Health
PARIS (Reuters) - France's health minister tried to calm women's fears over potentially dangerous breast implants on Tuesday, saying there was no medical need to remove them immediately.
December 27, 2011
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PIP implants sold to Dutch firm under new name
By Reuters Health
AMSTERDAM/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - Potentially substandard breast implants made by a French protheses maker now under investigation were sold to about 1,000 Dutch women under a second name, broadening the scope of the scandal that could already affect some 300,000 women worldwide.
December 26, 2011
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3D matches 2D MRI for knee osteoarthritis, but in less time
By Wayne Forrest
Three-dimensional fast spin-echo MRI can achieve "moderate to almost perfect agreement and high accuracy" compared with routine 2D fast spin-echo MRI for evaluating knee osteoarthritis, but in 30% less time, according to a study presented at the recent RSNA 2011 meeting in Chicago.
December 26, 2011
Cardiac MRI beats SPECT in detecting coronary heart disease
By Cynthia E. Keen
Cardiovascular MRI is more accurate than SPECT for diagnosing coronary heart disease, according to the results of a prospective U.K. trial comparing the two. Authors of the study, published online on 23 December in Lancet, say their results indicate that cardiac MRI should be adopted more widely.
December 25, 2011
Philips gets 1st Dutch Ingenuity TF PET/MR sale
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Royal Philips Electronics announced that its first sale of its Ingenuity TF PET/MR scanner in the Netherlands has been made to the VU University Medical Center Amsterdam.
December 22, 2011
Debate over electronic health records enters new phase
By Emma Harper
The switch to electronic health records -- either as a local solution or as part of a larger national initiative -- is gathering pace across Europe, and the issues of ownership, access, control, and confidentiality are becoming increasingly pertinent.
December 22, 2011
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