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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
Vote to choose greatest medical breakthrough
By Reuters Health
LONDON (Reuters), Jan 5 - Doctors and scientists, as well as the public, are being invited to choose the greatest medical breakthrough of the last 166 years in an online poll. It includes achievements that have transformed the lives of millions of people around the world, including the discovery of antibiotics and the development of medical imaging.
January 4, 2007
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UPMC to install Elekta's Gamma Knife
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta will deliver and install its Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian (UPMC) in the second quarter of this year.
January 4, 2007
Varian to acquire Accel Instruments
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has signed an agreement to acquire Accel Instruments, a Bergisch Gladbach, Germany-based supplier of proton therapy systems for cancer treatment and scientific research instruments.
January 3, 2007
GST, Crown sign U.S. distribution deal for PhoneidoS
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Gruppo Soluzioni Tecnologiche (GST) of Trento, Italy, has signed a distribution agreement for its PhoneidoS speech recognition application with Crown International, a distributor of speech recognition products.
January 3, 2007
Eckert & Ziegler notch Venezuelan order
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical developer Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen-und Medizintechnik said that the Venezuelan Health Ministry has ordered six of the firm's MultiSource tumor radiation systems.
January 3, 2007
Philips, Bioscan partner on NanoSPECT marketing
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems has signed an agreement giving it the rights to co-market and co-distribute molecular imaging developer Bioscan's NanoSPECT and NanoSPECT/CT devices.
January 1, 2007
Modified U.S. cancer risk model effective in Europe
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 25 - A variant of the well-established Gail model 2 (GM) for predicting the absolute risk of breast cancer, performs satisfactorily in an Italian population, researchers from that nation report in the December 6th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
December 24, 2006
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PET scans track breast cancer response to chemotherapy
By Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 25 - Positron emission tomography (PET) following infusion of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is an effective means of predicting response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer, French researchers report in the December 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
December 24, 2006
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French firm Biospace Med prepares for launch of EOS digital x-ray unit
By Brian Casey
The vast majority of radiography systems currently on the market -- both digital and analog -- are based on a fairly conventional design that hasn't changed much in decades: an x-ray tube at one end and a film-screen cassette or detector at the other. But the new EOS system from French biotech firm Biospace Med represents a radical new design in digital radiography instrumentation that could carve out a niche when it becomes available in mid-2007.
December 24, 2006
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Trial date set for IBA, Optivus dispute
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Belgian nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Application (IBA) is reporting that a trial date has been set in Los Angeles on the remaining claims asserted against IBA by Optivus Technology of Loma Linda, CA, and Loma Linda University Medical Center.
December 20, 2006
Orthocrat notches U.K. deals
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Orthocrat is expanding its presence in the U.K. with the installation of its TraumaCad software at the Hospital Corp. of America Group-London's six hospitals.
December 18, 2006
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