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Cardiac dysfunction common in young adults after childhood cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 27 - Young adult survivors of childhood cancer have an "alarmingly" high rate of subclinical cardiac dysfunction, researchers reported July 26 in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
July 26, 2010
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Carestream wins U.K. RIS install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has won a contract with a U.K. healthcare network for its RIS package.
July 26, 2010
Myocardial echo bests SPECT in assessing hibernating myocardium
By Erik L. Ridley
Myocardial contrast echocardiography can outperform SPECT for assessing hibernating myocardium in ischemic cardiomyopathy, London researchers report in the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography.
July 25, 2010
Pre-op radiation affects sexual function in men with rectal cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 23 - Sexual dysfunction that develops in men who've had treatment for rectal cancer is mostly due to the surgery -- but preoperative radiation also plays a role, researchers say.
July 22, 2010
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Siemens wins first U.K. MRI scanner orders
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has booked its first U.K. orders for its Magnetom Aera 1.5-tesla and Magnetom Skyra 3-tesla MRI systems.
July 21, 2010
High-intensity focused ultrasound effective for localized prostate cancer
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 21 - In men with localized prostate cancer, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) can achieve results comparable to those expected with external-beam radiation therapy, a French group reports.
July 20, 2010
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Dutch regulators OK Petten restart
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical producer Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group has received approval from Dutch regulators to resume service at its High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands.
July 20, 2010
Minimal-prep VC gets new boost from dual-energy CT
By Eric Barnes
A new dual-energy CT electronic cleansing technique thoroughly outperformed an advanced single-source CT cleansing method in virtual colonoscopy in a recent study. The technique eliminated many common artifacts that have plagued investigational electronic cleansing techniques.
July 20, 2010
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Surgery before radiation not helpful for metastatic spinal cord compression
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 20 - The results of decompressive surgery followed by radiotherapy for metastatic spinal cord compression are similar to those obtained with radiotherapy alone, according to a new matched-pair analysis.
July 19, 2010
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Carestream signs French distributor
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Carestream Health has signed a distribution agreement with radiography and bone densitometry equipment manufacturer Apelem of Nîmes, France.
July 15, 2010
Varian gets U.K. RapidArc install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has won a contract with a cancer center in Scotland for its RapidArc radiotherapy system, the company said.
July 14, 2010
Database identifies radiation therapy toxicities in kids
By Cynthia E. Keen
Since 2004, radiation oncologists in Germany have been submitting information about pediatric radiotherapy treatments to a study trial center database. Now an analysis of acute toxicities from this database of more than 1,000 patients has been recently published in Radiotherapy & Oncology, providing an overview of the pattern of acute toxicities of irradiated organs.
July 14, 2010
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