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30/07/2007 12:39 - Supply Management
A health group contracted to provide diagnostic services for NHS patients in the north and south west of England has been fired for failing to meets its obligations.
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30/07/2007 12:30 - US Food and Drug Administration
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first molecular-based laboratory test for detecting whether breast cancer has spread (metastasized) to nearby lymph nodes.
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30/07/2007 02:50 -
Think you haven't got the aptitude to learn a foreign language? New research led by Northwestern University neuroscientists suggests that the problem, quite literally, could be in your head.
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30/07/2007 02:46 -
The first study to examine brain activity patterns in severely traumatized children showed their brains function differently than those of healthy children, say researchers.
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30/07/2007 02:41 -
Over the last 20 years, cardiac CT has evolved. Now physicians have a method to evaluate both coronary atherosclerosis simultaneously with a view of the lumen.
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30/07/2007 02:36 - University of Cincinnati
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have been awarded a $9m five-year grant to find new ways to improve and personalize treatments for bipolar disorder, and to better understand how to id...
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30/07/2007 02:32 - Reuters
Real-time elastography accurately detects prostate cancer in men scheduled for radical prostatectomy, according to a report in the July BJU International.
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30/07/2007 02:27 - Reuters
Physicians in the US are far less likely to use pulmonary artery catheterization in critically ill patients these days than they were in 1993, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medi...
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30/07/2007 01:29 - Reuters
External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) provides objective and symptomatic improvement for patients with tracheobronchial amyloidosis, according to a report in the July issue of Chest.
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30/07/2007 01:17 - Reuters
Younger, healthy siblings of patients with schizophrenia show significant brain abnormalities, researchers report in the Archives of General Psychiatry. However, these abnormalities may only be tempor...
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30/07/2007 01:13 - Kaiser Family Foundation
With health care emerging as the top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential election, the Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new website - health08.org - that will provide analysis of health pol...
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27/07/2007 03:21 -
SNM, the world's largest molecular imaging and nuclear medicine society, recently awarded $105,000 in numerous research grants and fellowships funded by its Education and Research Foundation.
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27/07/2007 02:57 - Medtronic, Inc.
Medtronic, Inc. has announced it has entered into a distribution and development agreement with Axon Systems, a privately-held developer of neuromonitoring technology used during spinal surgery.
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27/07/2007 02:11 - American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT)
Results from a survey of nearly 10,000 radiologic technologists showed their average annual compensation is $58,673, an increase of 12.8 per cent over 2004's average of $52,001.
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27/07/2007 01:56 - Reuters
Among patients with a recent low-energy fracture, a year of treatment with calcium and vitamin D reduces bone turnover, according to findings published in the July issue of the American Journal of Cli...
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27/07/2007 01:48 - Carestream Health, Inc.
Carestream Health, Inc. announced it has accepted an invitation from the European Society of Radiology (ESR) to join other industry leaders as a 'Supporting Member' of the institution.
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27/07/2007 01:33 -
Lung cancer screening is probably the most urgent topic in thoracic imaging. There is currently a very interesting debate about the use of low dose chest CT for this purpose.
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25/07/2007 12:24 - American College of Radiology (ACR)
ODS Companies of Portland, Ore. has confirmed that they will continue coverage of computer-aided detection (CAD) for mammography. This reverses a non-coverage policy that was scheduled to take effect ...
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25/07/2007 22:55 -
Each year, 10,000 Americans suffer a sudden tear in the lining of their body's largest blood vessel, the aorta. A new study may offer hope for aortic dissection survivors, and give guidance for their ...
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25/07/2007 22:18 -
The ultrasound and breast imaging facility is introducing an innovative technology that helps to detect breast cancers and evaluate questionable findings on mammography or ultrasound.
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25/07/2007 21:36 -
A new study from the Kaiser Permanente health plan raises the question whether trends in breast cancer incidence and use of postmenopausal hormone therapy and mammography may be directly linked.
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25/07/2007 21:06 - University of Nottingham
The capacity to resist peer pressure in early adolescence may depend on the strength of connections between certain areas of the brain, according to a study carried out by University of Nottingham res...
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25/07/2007 20:49 - Reuters
The $6.3bn takeover bid for Dade Behring Holdings Inc. by Siemens AG, the latest deal in the hot clinical diagnostic business, is lifting shares of Dade rival Beckman Coulter Inc. amid expectations it...
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25/07/2007 20:24 - Reuters
Certain symptomatic children with congenital cardiac and vascular disease may have pathological airway abnormalities, Canadian researchers report.
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25/07/2007 20:15 - Reuters
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) reduce the likelihood of sudden cardiac death in high-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), according to results of an international, mult...
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