Clinical News: Page 995

Bruker opens customer support center in Moscow
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Scientific instrument company Bruker has opened a new applications and customer support center of excellence in Moscow.
June 17, 2012
Identifying top trends in Europe's nuclear medicine market
By Anthony Stevens, PhD
The number of diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures (excluding PET) performed in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. rose by about 1% a year between 2007 and 2011, and France showed the highest level of growth in terms of patient numbers.
June 17, 2012
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Portsmouth hospital adds Xograph mobile x-ray
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Queen Alexandria Hospital in Portsmouth, U.K., has purchased several new mobile digital x-ray systems from radiography products supplier Xograph Healthcare.
June 17, 2012
German team collects SNM Image of the Year award
By Wayne Forrest
German researchers have received this year's Image of the Year award at the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting for their research illustrating the effectiveness of a new radiopharmaceutical for treating digestive tumors.
June 17, 2012
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Breast tomo surpasses digital mammography in diagnostic accuracy
By Kate Madden Yee
One-view breast tomosynthesis shows higher diagnostic accuracy as compared with two-view digital mammography, helping interpreting radiologists find 10% more cancers, according to a new study from an influential group of researchers in Sweden.
June 14, 2012
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Advanced x-ray technique helps reduce CT dose
By Eric Barnes
German and French researchers have used a novel x-ray imaging technique to improve the contrast of CT scans, permitting substantial reductions in the radiation dose, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 14, 2012
Barco secures substantial Chinese contract
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Image display firm Barco has been awarded an exclusive contract to provide MDRC-2120 clinical review displays for an e-hospital project that includes more than 60 sites in Gansu Province, China.
June 13, 2012
Communication proves vital to success in screening mammography
By Rebekah Moan
Researchers from Italy and Spain have found that communication affects whether women will return for their annual mammogram, and, similarly, a false-positive result deters them from coming back. The findings were published in this month's issue of the European Journal of Public Health.
June 13, 2012
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Imaging groups form global organization
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
Medical imaging industry trade organizations have joined forces to form an international body that includes representatives from Europe, Japan, Canada, and the U.S.
June 12, 2012
ESGAR news; stroke in younger people; breast malpractice litigation
By Philip Ward
June 12, 2012
WHO guidelines to diagnose childhood pneumonia criticized
By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers
The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for diagnosing radiographic pneumonia were ineffective for screening young children admitted to the emergency department at Children's Hospital Boston, according to a study in the June issue of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.
June 12, 2012
European study shows strokes among younger patients often missed
By Philip Ward
Strokes in younger people tend to be overlooked, or symptoms are being misinterpreted, Dr. Franz Fazekas, head of neurology at the Medical University of Graz in Austria, reported in a large-scale European study presented at this week's European Neurological Society meeting in Prague.
June 12, 2012
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