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Medicsight, Barco sign global pact

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm Medicsight of London has signed a global distribution contract with image display and advanced visualization software developer Barco of Kortrijk, Belgium.

July 22, 2007

Fecal test, sigmoidoscopy effective for colorectal cancer screening

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 12 - Both fecal occult blood testing and flexible sigmoidoscopy represent feasible and acceptable approaches to colorectal cancer screening in normal-risk men and women, Italian researchers conclude. The six-center study included more than 18,000 randomly selected patients between 55 and 64 years old who hadn't been screened for colorectal cancer in the past two years.

July 11, 2007

Median gets 510(k) for lung and liver apps

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

French computer-aided detection (CAD) developer Median Technologies has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its LMS-Lung/Track and LMS-Liver applications.

June 17, 2007

Viatronix, Medicsight net CE Mark

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Advanced visualization firm Viatronix and computer-aided detection (CAD) partner Medicsight of London have jointly released their integrated virtual colonoscopy CAD offering in Europe.

June 12, 2007

Liver stiffness tied to portal hypertension in cirrhosis

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 16 - Liver stiffness is indicative of portal hypertension in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis, Italian researchers report in the May issue of Hepatology. The team from the University of Florence evaluated the ability of transient elastography to predict portal hypertension in 61 patients with HCV-related chronic liver disease.

May 15, 2007

Prognosis poor with high IL-6 before colorectal cancer surgery

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 16 - Production of high levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) by mononuclear blood cells in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation in vitro is associated with shorter survival in patients about to undergo primary surgery for colorectal cancer, Swedish investigators have shown.

May 15, 2007

Five years of daily aspirin lowers risk of colorectal cancer many years later

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), May 11 - At a dose of 300 mg daily for at least five years, treatment with aspirin markedly reduces the incidence of colorectal cancer a decade later, according to long-term follow-up of randomized trials and observational studies.

May 10, 2007

Optimized barium, easier prep improve VC experience

Some see virtual colonoscopy combined with a gentler bowel prep as an important way to get patients to undergo colon cancer screening. And unlike conventional colonoscopy, VC is in a position to make things easier for the patient. Studies are experimenting with gentler regimens that produce less discomfort and mark the residual stool. Recently, researchers tried to find the optimal formula for reduced-prep VC.

April 17, 2007

Capsule endoscopy readily spots obscure GI bleeding

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 16 - Capsule endoscopy is more effective than CT or standard angiography for the diagnosis of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, Spanish researchers report in the April issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

April 15, 2007

Agfa launches virtual colonoscopy app at ECR

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

VIENNA - A new virtual colonoscopy software application is among the highlights in the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) booth of Agfa HealthCare of Mortsel, Belgium.

March 8, 2007

German screening trial finds high accuracy for VC

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

Rendoscopy opens U.S. office

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German software developer Rendoscopy announced it has opened an office in the U.S.

November 25, 2006

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