Gustave Roussy has awarded Elekta with an order for four Versa HD linear accelerators, replacing their existing installed base of competing systems. The premier European comprehensive cancer center started its radiotherapy program in 2013.
TRU-Vu Monitors has launched a new line of 24-inch HD surgical LCD monitors and touch screens.
Women who are carriers of mutated BRCA genes are known to have a significantly higher risk for developing breast and ovarian cancers than those who don't have the mutations. But a new study by the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) faculty questions the value of screening for the genetic mutations in the general population — including those who do not have cancer or have no family history of the disease — because of the high cost.
Fujifilm’s APERTO Lucent is a 0.4T mid-field, open MRI system addressing today’s capability and image quality needs ...
Despite numerous major changes looming in the healthcare industry, the 2015 edition of the Great American Physician Survey found that U.S. physicians are still happy in their careers.
School-age children born prematurely are more likely to have low mathematical achievement, thought to be associated with reduced working memory and number skills, according to a study in the neurology journal Brain.
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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc. received initial notice of award for a Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant up to $1.8 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will be used to fund preclinical studies examining the safety of intravenous (IV) injection of Tc99m tilmanocept, a Manocept platform product.
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Eizo Inc. announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for breast tomosynthesis on its 5-megapixel monochrome medical monitor, the RadiForce GX540.
Mobius Medical Systems recently released DoseLab version 6.7. This new release adds significant features to the quality assurance (QA) software, including task scheduling and monitoring, role-based control and enhanced Microsoft Excel integration.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the creation of the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model, designed to improve care and reduce costs in Medicare Advantage plans.
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Results of the PLATFORM trial indicate fractional flow reserve computed tomography (FFR-CT) can obviate the need for invasive tests in up to 61 percent of patients with chest pain and suspected coronary artery disease. The results were presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2015.
Linköping University Hospital in Sweden has installed SyMRI Neuro from SyntheticMR in order to improve the follow-up of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Significant national and international momentum is building to include a proton therapy unit as part of the planned expansion of SAHMRI, South Australia’s Health and Medical Research Institute. It would be the first facility in the Southern Hemisphere to deliver proton therapy.
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Varian Medical Systems has added a new cloud-based toolkit to the company's OncoPeer interactive online forum, making development tools available for research that has the potential to lead to next-generation cancer treatment technologies.
Men with relatively unaggressive prostate tumors whose disease is carefully monitored by urologists are unlikely to develop metastatic prostate cancer or die of their cancers, according to a study from the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins.
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September 2, 2015 — Findings presented at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2015 indicate that a small ...
Based on its recent analysis of the cardiovascular image management market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pie Medical Imaging (PMI) with the 2015 European Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership.
University of Maryland Medicine and its Center for Metabolic Imaging and Image-Guided Therapeutics (CMIT) has begun to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided focused ultrasound on a deep structure within the brain related to Parkinson’s disease.
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced the new Sigma II CS-7s computed radiography (CR) system, designed to deliver enterprise level imaging to community hospitals, clinics and private practices.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO’s) 57th annual meeting will be held at the Henry B. González Convention Center, Oct.18-21, 2015, in San Antonio.
Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have found that even first-episode psychotic patients process information differently from a control group.