April 1, 2016 — Pyrexar Medical announced the achievement of ISO 13485 Certification and CE re-certification for its line of hyperthermia products for cancer treatment.

ISO 13485 represents the requirements for a comprehensive quality management system for the design and manufacture of medical devices. The ISO standard is also a required compliance to do business in the European Union.

The CE Mark allows Pyrexar to ship medical devices to any of the 27 member states of the EU.

In a paper published in Nature Reviews last week, Axel Hoos, M.D., Ph.D., laid out the current immunotherapy development paradigm, as well as his strategic vision to optimize the implementation of next-generation immunotherapies.

March 31, 2016 — Medical diagnostic imaging provider Digirad Corp. posted an article to their website discussing updates to appropriate use criteria (AUC) for clinical decision support (CDS) coming in 2016.

New technology has enabled doctors to administer higher doses of radiation to prostate cancer patients with fewer side effects. However, a new study shows that escalating the dose may not actually help a patient in the long term, at least not patients with localized prostate cancer.

New research suggests that looking at structures in the right side of the brain may help predict who will better recover from language problems after a stroke.

A new University of Alberta study shows that vibrating the spine may reveal more than magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when it comes to treating back pain.

A prospective study examining a trimodality treatment approach in localized bladder cancer cases using adaptive image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IG-IMRT) found the bladder preservation rate at three years was 83 percent.

March 30, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) certificate of J. Bruce Jacobs M.D. Inc., doing business as Huntington Radiology in Huntington Park, Calif., on March 4. The FDA is alerting patients who had mammograms at the facility any time on or after Sept. 8, 2014, about possible problems with the quality of their mammograms.

This facility was the subject of a prior FDA Safety Notification issued on March 10, 2011.

MicroRNA molecules were discovered only relatively recently in humans, but have been shown to play a pivotal role in how a cell responds to injury or stress, such as radiation therapy. A University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)-led study has for the first time shown that microRNAs, specifically the microRNA known as miR-34, can sit silently in an inactive state in a cell waiting for a signal to turn it on.

March 30, 2016 — IBA (Ion Beam Applications SA) announced it has signed a contract with the University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) to install Belgium’s first proton therapy center. The project will be conducted in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc and other Belgian universities. IBA was awarded the contract following a comprehensive European public tender conducted by UZ Leuven.

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