Clinical News: Page 1206

BMI installs Siemens 128-slice CT

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

BMI-The London Independent Hospital in the U.K. has installed a 128-slice Somatom Definition AS+ CT scanner from Siemens Healthcare.

July 16, 2008

Routine clopidogrel before angiography no advantage in subsequent PCI

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 16 - In patients with stable angina who might be candidates for percutaneous coronary intervention, there appears to be no benefit to clopidogrel pretreatment before they undergo elective angiography. In fact, it may increase minor bleeding complications, according to Czech researchers.

July 15, 2008

Philips Speech adds Finnish language support

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Philips Speech Recognition Systems and its Finnish distributor Oy Konttorityö have released the SpeechMagic Executive Advanced speech recognition system for the Finnish market.

July 15, 2008

Breast self-examination does not cut breast cancer mortality

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 16 - An analysis of data from two large population-based studies suggests that regular breast self-examination does not reduce breast cancer mortality and may actually have a harmful effect by increasing the number of biopsies performed for benign disease.

July 15, 2008

Smoking during radiation therapy reduces treatment benefit

By Cynthia E. Keen

Patients with non-small cell lung cancer who smoke during the weeks they receive radiation therapy may reduce their overall benefit of treatment. Smoking has a significant negative effect as measured by several factors for assessing radiation therapy's effectiveness, according to study results.

July 15, 2008

Higher VC laxative dose burdens patients, doesn't improve reads

By Eric Barnes

Researchers from the Netherlands report that higher levels of catharsis conferred neither better image quality nor improvement of tagging characteristics on image data, compared to images from subjects given lower laxative doses.

July 15, 2008

U.S. military to adopt voice recognition technology worldwide

By Wayne Forrest

Following the Bush administration's directive for creating a national electronic medical record (EMR) network, the U.S. Department of Defense has initiated a similar effort to have an EMR system in place by 2011 in its Military Health System. The new military EMR will involve the wide-scale deployment of voice recognition software across all military treatment facilities.

July 14, 2008

Carestream debuts RIS mammo module in Denmark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Carestream Health has installed a new RIS mammography module in Denmark, the company announced.

July 14, 2008

Agfa to add OrthoView to Impax

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Agfa HealthCare and orthopedic software developer OrthoView have signed an agreement to integrate the OrthoView digital planning software into Agfa's Impax for Orthopedics PACS offering.

July 13, 2008

New algorithm sharpens coronary artery images

By Eric Barnes

Researchers at the recent Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Barcelona, Spain, presented new work that aims to simplify the difficult task of evaluating coronary artery images.

July 13, 2008

Angiotech wins patent stamp of approval in U.K.

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Medical device firm Angiotech Pharmaceuticals of Vancouver, British Columbia, received confirmation in the U.K. of the validity of one of its patents related to its paclitaxel stent inventions.

July 9, 2008

Capsule endoscopy image quality not improved with oral bowel prep

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 9 - In patients with obscure GI bleeding undergoing exploration of the small bowel by capsule endoscopy, image quality is not improved by bowel preparation with oral sodium phosphate (NaP) rather than fasting, study results indicate.

July 8, 2008

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