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German screening trial finds high accuracy for VC
By Eric Barnes
Results from the first 300 patients screened in the ongoing Munich Colorectal Cancer Prevention Trial indicate that virtual colonoscopy with 64-slice CT is sensitive and specific for the detection of polyps of all sizes. The researchers in Germany found that conventional colonoscopy had a slight edge in diminutive polyps, but virtual colonoscopy did a little better with the larger lesions.
January 16, 2007
Siemens to acquire GSD
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has agreed to purchase longtime partner Gesellschaft fur Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen (GSD), a German developer of health information systems.
January 16, 2007
Conor wins British patent victory
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Conor Medsystems reported that the Court of Appeal in the U.K. unanimously upheld the decision of the High Court of Justice to revoke the U.K. portion of European Patent 0 706 376 B1 to Angiotech Pharmaceuticals.
January 15, 2007
Sectra nets Netherlands RIS/PACS contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish healthcare technology and device developer Sectra reported that Leiden University Medical Center has signed a RIS/PACS deal with the Linkoping-based firm.
January 15, 2007
Varian notches multilinac install in London
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has placed four of its Clinac iX linear accelerators at the new Queen's Hospital in London.
January 15, 2007
California hospital to install Gamma Knife
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta will deliver and install its Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion system at Washington Hospital in Fremont, CA.
January 15, 2007
NHS 'should treat Muslims differently'
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jan 12 - Muslims should be given different treatment on the National Health Service to take into account the requirements of their faith, a doctor reported in an editorial in the British Medical Journal on Friday. Britain's 1.6 million Muslims are twice as likely to report poor health and disability but the NHS keeps no details on patients by religious affinity.
January 11, 2007
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Britain may see surplus of specialist physicians in a few years
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jan 12 - Thousands of doctors training in England could be forced to move abroad because there will be no jobs for them when they qualify, the head of the British Medical Association said on Thursday. A leaked Department of Health paper last week forecast there would be a surplus in England of 3,200 consultants by 2010 as well as a shortage of 1,200 family doctors.
January 11, 2007
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Boston Scientific launches Promus
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Boston Scientific said that it has initiated international marketing of its Promus everolimus-eluting stent.
January 10, 2007
Dental x-rays may help detect osteoporosis
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 11 - A computer program that analyzes routine dental X-rays could offer a simple, cheap way to detect the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis, new research suggests. British researchers found that a software program they developed was able to spot signs of declining bone density in dental X-rays of the lower jaw -- a potential sign of osteoporosis.
January 10, 2007
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Sectra notches Belgian PACS sale
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish healthcare technology developer Sectra reported that Henri Serruys Ziekenhuis AV, a hospital located in Oostende, Belgium, has purchased the firm's radiology PACS.
January 8, 2007
IBA nets U.S. proton therapy order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications has been selected by ProCure Treatment Centers to build a four-room proton therapy center in Oklahoma City.
January 7, 2007
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