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GE warns of impending Ceretec shortage
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Bad weather and flooding have forced Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based GE Healthcare to close its manufacturing facility in Gloucester, U.K., temporarily interrupting supplies of an imaging radiopharmaceutical.
August 20, 2007
Philips' Australian SR installation shows positive results
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Philips Speech Recognition Systems of Vienna, Austria, has installed its SpeechMagic speech recognition technology at the Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) in New South Wales, Australia.
August 20, 2007
Breast cancer-involved sentinel nodes often contain micrometastases
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 15 - Twenty-three percent of breast cancer patients with an involved sentinel lymph node have a sentinel node that contains micrometastases, according to a report in the August 1st issue of Cancer. Sixteen percent of patients have a sentinel node containing submicrometastases.
August 14, 2007
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ESR adopts 'bigger is better' membership strategy
By Brenda Tilke
Although the Radiological Society of North America continues to host the world's largest radiology meeting, the Vienna-based European Society of Radiology (ESR) hopes to surpass RSNA's membership numbers, partially through an innovative low-cost membership drive. The philosophy behind the membership drive can be summed up with ESR's new slogan: "The bigger we are -- the better we can serve you."
August 12, 2007
MRI may aid diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 10 - The findings from a new study support a role for MRI in detecting ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), particularly disease with a high nuclear grade. The findings, which appear in the August 11th issue of the Lancet, are from a study of 7,319 women who were evaluated with both mammography and MRI for breast cancer screening.
August 9, 2007
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Aurora breast MRI goes mobile in Italy
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Aurora Imaging Technology of North Andover, MA, said its mobile Aurora 1.5-tesla dedicated breast MRI system is heading for Italy.
August 8, 2007
BMA says 30,000 doctors start new jobs amid chaos
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Aug 2 - A catalogue of new problems, including cancelled operations, are emerging as 30,000 junior doctors start their new jobs, the doctors' union warned on Wednesday. The British Medical Association (BMA) said the last-minute scramble to fill doctor posts in England will have a knock-on effect on quality.
August 1, 2007
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Giant virtual reality chamber boosts 3D echo accuracy
By Eric Barnes
Have you ever diagnosed a three-foot-tall 3D heart? Talk about cardiomegaly. Researchers from the Netherlands who survived the experience found they could diagnose valve defects that went unnoticed in a standard 2D exam. At the 2007 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) meeting in Berlin, Anton Koning, Ph.D., from Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam discussed how 3D visualizes complex pathology of the heart and how image display can be improved with different kinds of VR (virtual reality) systems.
August 1, 2007
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Decision rules useful for selecting women for bone mineral density testing
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Aug 1 - Four previously validated decision rules are useful in clinical practice for identifying postmenopausal women likely to have osteoporosis who should undergo bone mineral density (BMD) screening, Spanish researchers report in the June issue of the Journal of Rheumatology.
July 31, 2007
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Varian wins Swedish radiotherapy IT contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Varian Medical Systems' advanced treatment planning and information management software has been chosen as part of a project to integrate all radiotherapy activities in Stockholm, Sweden, including those at Karolinska University Hospital.
July 25, 2007
Additional double reading of screening mammograms boosts accuracy
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 26 - Double reading of mammograms by radiologic technologists in addition to double reading by radiologists -- i.e., quadruple reading -- can improve breast cancer detection without substantially increasing referral rates, Dutch researchers report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute for August 1st.
July 25, 2007
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Alliance for MRI gains delay, but new European rules still loom
By Brenda Tilke
A coalition of European MRI advocates won a partial victory in June in its fight against new safety regulations that some believe will effectively shut down the use of MRI across the European Union. But the Alliance for MRI, led by the European Society of Radiology (ESR) of Vienna, faces additional struggle in winning a permanent injunction against implementation of the rules.
July 25, 2007
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