Clinical News: Page 1172

Xograph completes Yorkshire install
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
U.K. radiology products supplier Xograph Healthcare has installed its buckyStar system at Grange Surgery, a general practice surgery facility in Hemsworth, Yorkshire.
April 6, 2009
Siemens takes Mammomat order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has received an order for its Mammomat Inspiration full-field digital mammography system with tomosynthesis technology.
April 6, 2009
Adding chest CT to VC not cost-effective, study finds
By Eric Barnes
Adding a chest CT scan to screening virtual colonoscopy isn't cost-effective in a cohort of average-risk patients, a new model-based analysis concluded. Although the additional anatomic coverage increased the clinical efficiency of CT-based screening, the combined test would not detect enough serious pathology to cover the costs of detection and follow-up of disease.
April 6, 2009
NHS awards new contract to BT Health
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Healthcare telecommunications provider BT Health is to take over responsibility for supporting hospitals in the south of England as part of the U.K.'s Connecting for Health information technology project.
April 5, 2009
Fecal occult blood screening may help reduce colorectal cancer mortality
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 6 - Pilot studies indicate that a population-based approach to guaiac fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) appears likely to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, Scottish researchers report in the April issue of Gut.
April 5, 2009
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GE signs Qatar IT deal
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with an IT services provider in Qatar covering the systems integration of GE Centricity healthcare IT software, including its Centricity Enterprise package.
April 5, 2009
MDCT holds promise for advanced osteoporosis scan
By Eric Barnes
CT could become an important player in the emerging field of structural bone assessment, according to researchers from Berlin and San Francisco. They believe the modality is capable of evaluating trabecular structures from the extremities to the vertebrae, outperforming even high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT (HR-pQCT) in some conditions.
April 5, 2009
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Virtual colonoscopy CAD finds most cancers
By Eric Barnes
A computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithm designed to find polypoid lesions of the colon also does fairly well at finding frank cancers, researchers from the U.K. concluded. But sensitivity varies depending on the system settings and the quality of the prep.
April 2, 2009
Single-entry APBI offers flexibility in treating breast cancer
By Cynthia E. Keen
Until recently, accelerated partial-breast irradiation (APBI) was not an option for most women with small breasts or a tumor located close to the chest wall and lung or the surface of the skin. The introduction of multicatheter single-entry brachytherapy devices, however, is beginning to change the situation.
April 2, 2009
British rads blast U.K. IT initiative
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The U.K.'s rollout of a nationwide healthcare IT network has resulted in isolated local PACS networks that are unable to efficiently share and transfer electronic diagnostic imaging files and related reports.
April 2, 2009
Brain scans may detect post-trauma stress sooner
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Apr 4 - Scientists using functional MRI scans on soldiers have identified brain patterns that signal post-traumatic stress, a finding they said on Friday could eventually help diagnose the disorder sooner.
April 2, 2009
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ACC study: Coronary CTA tops other tests for long-term prognosis
By Charlene Laino
ORLANDO - Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is better than conventional risk scores and calcium scoring at predicting the long-term prognosis of patients with obstructive coronary artery disease, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
April 1, 2009
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