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GE launches Swedish IT project

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has implemented its Centricity infrastructure for RIS, PACS, and image archiving in the Västra Götaland region of Sweden.

May 30, 2006

Varian nets U.K. orders

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Radiation oncology vendor Varian Medical Systems will be supplying several U.K. hospitals with treatment machines and simulators under Wave 9 of the U.K. government's cancer treatment capital investment program.

May 30, 2006

Shortening radiotherapy feasible for breast cancer

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 30 - Fewer but more concentrated doses of radiotherapy could be as safe and effective as a longer-course treatment for breast cancer patients, researchers said on Tuesday. A 10-year trial of a shorter course of 13 larger doses showed it worked just as well as the standard treatment and without an increase in side effects.

May 29, 2006

Clinical features differentiate parasomnias and nocturnal frontal lobe seizures

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 30 - Misdiagnosis of parasomnias and nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE) is common because characteristics of the two disorders are similar, including MRI findings and interictal EEG results. Therefore, specialists recommend video EEG or video EEG-polysomnography, but these services may be unavailable, or the events may not be captured during any given night.

May 29, 2006

Low-grade prostate cancer may not require aggressive treatment

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 26 - Most men diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer may not need radical treatments such as surgery or radiotherapy, which can have serious side effects, British researchers said on Thursday.

May 25, 2006

Intraop gets Belgian Mobetron order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Intraoperative radiation therapy firm Intraop Medical has received an order from Saint Augustinius Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium, for its Mobetron system.

May 24, 2006

Cedara to distribute, integrate medavis RIS

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Canadian medical imaging and informatics software developer Cedara Software said it has been selected to distribute a RIS application from Karlsruhe, Germany-based medavis to healthcare facilities in the U.K., Ireland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.

May 24, 2006

Elekta introduces new Gamma Knife

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish radiation therapy firm Elekta has introduced a new member of its Leksell Gamma Knife family, Perfexion.

May 23, 2006

High rate of unexpected lung cancers found on routine CT scans

SAN DIEGO - One-fifth of consecutive CT scans for all indications in a U.K. teaching hospital demonstrated a new malignancy, according to a study presented Monday at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) conference.

May 23, 2006

Sectra's medical sales grow, profit dips

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Swedish technology firm Sectra reported growth in revenues in its medical division in the company's recently completed fiscal year (end-April), although operating profit dipped.

May 22, 2006

Fewer NHS beds won't harm patients - report

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 23 - Patients receive better public healthcare nowadays, despite the closure of a third of Britain's hospital beds over the last 20 years, according to a report on Monday. But opposition parties and unions described the report as a smokescreen, designed to hide how health chiefs are being forced to close wards to save money.

May 22, 2006

One in four U.K. health staff bullied by patients

By Reuters Health

LONDON (Reuters), May 22 - One in four National Health Service staff have been bullied or harassed by patients and their families in the last 12 months and the problem is growing, according to a report on Friday. Junior doctors and medical students reported they often bore the brunt of bullying as part of an "initiation rite" into the profession.

May 21, 2006

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