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Sectra nets Norwegian deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish PACS and digital mammography developer Sectra has inked a six-year partnership with Norwegian radiology services provider Curato.
August 30, 2009
LabLogic expands to Ireland
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
LabLogic has installed its Mini-Scan radio TLC scanner and Laura radiochromatography software in PET and nuclear medicine facilities in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
August 27, 2009
Excess mortality persists decades after breast cancer 'cure'
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 28 - "There is no strong evidence" that any significant subpopulation of breast cancer patients diagnosed in the 1980s and early 1990s was ever "cured," say researchers from the U.K.
August 27, 2009
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U.K. to test hyperbaric oxygen with rad therapy
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
British researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in London are conducting a large phase III clinical trial to determine if hyperbaric oxygen therapy can reduce the side effects experienced by some patients receiving radiation therapy.
August 26, 2009
Most choose VC over colonoscopy, study shows
By Eric Barnes
A new study from the Netherlands has found that most patients preferred reduced-prep virtual colonoscopy over conventional optical colonoscopy. Patients judged reduced-prep VC, both prep and procedure, as less burdensome, a fact the researchers hope could lead to greater compliance in colorectal cancer screening.
August 26, 2009
Colorectal cancer attitudes vary by ethnicity
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 26 - Men and people of South Asian descent are more likely to have unfavorable perceptions of colon cancer screening, research from the U.K. shows. The findings point the way toward strategies to get more people screened, according to Dr. Taina Taskila, a researcher on the study.
August 25, 2009
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Incidental findings are common on brain MRI: meta-analysis
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 26 - Nearly 3% of individuals show incidental findings on brain MRI, according to a report in the August 19 British Medical Journal.
August 25, 2009
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TomTec launches new M'Ath software
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Imaging software developer TomTec Imaging Systems has launched its new vascular analysis product, M'Ath (measure of atherosclerosis), as part of its CardioArena multimodality imaging suite.
August 24, 2009
Follow-up after grade 1 breast cancer may not be needed
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 25 - Women treated for grade 1 breast cancer have a low risk of locoregional recurrence and contralateral breast cancer, results of a study indicate.
August 24, 2009
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BP control may prevent white-matter lesions
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 24 - Diastolic blood pressure reductions might help lower the risk of cerebral white-matter lesions in women with hypertension, according to European researchers. Using brain CT data from 539 women, they found that white-matter lesions were associated with higher diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial pressure.
August 23, 2009
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Covidien says Dutch isotope reactor running again
By Reuters Health
CHICAGO (Reuters), Aug 21 - A nuclear reactor in the Netherlands that supplies medical isotopes is back up after scheduled maintenance, promising to ease a global shortage of the material used in scores of diagnostic imaging tests.
August 20, 2009
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Brazilian team marries lung CAD with PACS
By Eric Barnes
Nearly all computer-aided detection (CAD) systems in clinical use today have a major shortcoming: the need to transfer image data to a separate workstation to run CAD software, with CAD data remaining separate from the PACS images radiologists read in their normal workflow. Researchers from São Paulo may have the answer.
August 19, 2009
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