July 17, 2012 — Sectra has announced an agreement with Matakina International Ltd. to distribute Volpara breast density software, fully integrated with Sectra breast imaging PACS (picture archiving and communications system).

July 17, 2012 — New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, “European Data Storage Market in Healthcare,” finds that the market earned revenues of $1,011.4 million in 2010 and estimates this to reach $2,473 million in 2017. The research covers hospital IT, research and imaging segments.

July 16, 2012 — Scientists from the VTT Technical Research Center (Finland), in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland, have recently discovered a serum biochemical signature that predicts progression to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) months or even years before the first symptoms of the disease occur.

July 13, 2012 — Elekta swept the top three rankings in the KLAS research firm's recently released 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure report.

July 13, 2012 — GE Healthcare and VPDiagnostics Inc. jointly announced today their co-marketing agreement for the VPDiagnostics’ MRI-PlaqueView software for carotid artery atherosclerosis analysis.

July 13, 2012 — The long-term results of RTOG 9402, a randomized phase III trial evaluating the overall survival of patients with oligodendroglioma brain tumors who received either chemotherapy plus radiation therapy (Arm 1) or radiation therapy alone (Arm 2), reported that survival improves in some anaplastic oligodendroglioma brain tumor patients.

July 10, 2012 — In CT (computed tomography) imaging, healthcare facilities strive to limit patient radiation dose while maintaining high image quality for accurate diagnoses. St. Elizabeth Healthcare, in Edgewood, Ky., is the first facility to be upgraded with Toshiba’s advanced dose reduction software, AIDR 3D, on its Aquilion ONE CT system.