Departments

10/20/2011

ESC roundup: Fixing heart conditions

Devices to treat chronic cardiac disease are winning credibility with new evidence from large-scale patient registries, John Brosky reports …

10/20/2011

Surgeons under National Socialism

A new publication exposes the effects on past members of the German Society of Surgery. Bettina Döbereiner reports …

10/20/2011

OrthoMIT

More than 30 clinicians, researchers and industry partners (including Siemens, Aesculap and SurgiTAIX, an RWTH spin-off) are working on OrthoMIT, Germany’s largest collaborative …

09/22/2011

Scotland to enjoy major PACS upgrade programme

Carestream upgrade and migrate PACS will now be installed across the country's 34 hospitals, replacing all hardware with new WinTel platforms configured with Carestream Vue PACS …

09/15/2011

GE Healthcare to Invest $1 Billion in New Oncology Solutions

GE Healthcare announced today its plans to dedicate $1 billion of its total R&D budget over the next five years to expand its advanced cancer diagnostic and molecular imaging …

09/15/2011

Developing Integration Capabilities Presents a Real Opportunity for Vendors

Healthcare facilities in Europe are currently working to create a unified digital patient record. In tandem, medical imaging vendors are developing and offering cardiology …

09/02/2011

From CR to DR

Breathtaking though the rate of improvement in medical imaging systems may be, many hospitals remain locked into their various evolutionary stages – depending on their needs and …

09/02/2011

The flying magnet

When Professor PD Dr Dr Marcos Tatagiba operates the recently installed five ton, ceiling mounted MRI scanner in the operating theatre at the Neurosurgery Clinic in University …

09/02/2011

Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance

2011 brought a second year for European and US scientists to meet up at the Annual Scientific Symposium on Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance, held at the Max Delbrück Centre …

09/01/2011

Sectra and Philips complete modality transaction

Sectra has completed a mammography-modality deal with Royal Philips Electronics. Philips will pay EUR 57.5 million in a cash-on-cash and debt-free basis and take over the acquired …

09/01/2011

Siemens describes its new and advanced technology at AACC 2011

The health of the laboratory/ clinician relationship has always served as a good indicator of the overall quality of a given healthcare network. Historically, labs focused …

09/01/2011

The mobile app that answers patients’ medical test questions

Debuting at the AACC meeting was the first free mobile application to help consumers decipher their own medical tests. Created for use on an iPhone, iPad and Android smartphone, …

08/30/2011

The pancreas as we’ve never seen it before

Professor Ulf Ahlgren and associates at Umeå University in Sweden are a leading research team in the world in the development of optical projection tomography. With the aid of …

08/18/2011

Variation in bowel reoperation rates prompts call for better quality

There is a large variation in unplanned reoperation rates after colorectal surgery in English NHS hospitals, finds a study published on bmj.com today. As such, researchers suggest …

08/11/2011

How radiotherapy errors can be reduced

A combination of several well-known safety procedures could greatly reduce patient-harming errors in the use of radiation to treat cancer, according to a new study led by Johns …

08/11/2011

Urine Test Shows Prostate Cancer Risk

A new urine test can help aid early detection of and treatment decisions about prostate cancer, a study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and the …

08/11/2011

Battery-Powered Skin Patch for PAD treatment

Scientists have confirmed the feasibility of using a new drug delivery system - the basis for a battery-powered skin patch - to administer medication that shows promise for …

08/11/2011

Sea Squirt Pacemaker Gives New Insight Into Evolution Of The Human Heart

An international team of molecular scientists have discovered that star ascidians, also known as sea squirts, have pacemaker cells similar to that of the human heart. The …

08/11/2011

How Breast Cancer Spreads And New Ways To Treat It

Research into new methods to prevent and slow metastatic breast cancer will be presented this week at the Era of Hope conference, a scientific meeting hosted by the Department of …

08/03/2011

Eppendorf Young Investigator Award 2012

Until 15 January 2012, young researchers working in Europe who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply for the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators. This …