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Women with deleterious gene mutation diagnosed with breast cancer earlier than their previous generation

Women with a deleterious gene mutation are diagnosed with breast cancer six years earlier than relatives of the previous generation who also had the disease and/or ovarian cancer, according to new research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

12 Oct 2009

Canary Foundation to implement biosensor technologies for early cancer detection

Canary Foundation has committed to being the first organization to implement the breakthrough in biosensor technologies in its research pipeline. The new technology promises to revolutionize the early detection cancer field.

12 Oct 2009

Aperio's new digital slide sharing service for pathology incorporated as part of CAP’s Diagnostic Work Station

Aperio Technologies, Inc., a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry is pleased to announce that SecondSlide™, its newly launched digital slide sharing service for pathology, has been incorporated as one of the vendor solutions in the College of American Pathologists (CAP) prototype of the Diagnostic Work Station (DWS), a collaborative and heterogeneous vendor-neutral environment.

9 Oct 2009

Learning new tasks causes changes in spontaneous brain activity patterns: Study

Spontaneous brain activity formerly thought to be "white noise" measurably changes after a person learns a new task, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Chieti, Italy, have shown.

9 Oct 2009

Magnetic resonance imaging to help diagnose hidden prostate cancer

Clinical researchers at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) can now answer the question that baffles many clinicians - why do some men with elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels who are carefully monitored and undergo repeated negative biopsies still develop aggressive prostate cancer?

9 Oct 2009

HealthHelp to provide radiation oncology management on national scale

With cancer’s incidence and treatment costs rising, HealthHelp has become the first company to provide radiation oncology management on a national scale. Approximately 4 million Humana patients in 46 states will benefit from this innovative new program.

9 Oct 2009

Diversified Information Technologies acquires a business process outsourcing firm

Diversified Information Technologies, a leading provider of document and information lifecycle solutions, announced today that it has acquired Active Data Services, Inc., a business process outsourcing firm headquartered in Raleigh-Durham, NC.

9 Oct 2009

Clinical study for evaluating ProUroCare Medical's imaging system completes

ProUroCare Medical, Inc. today announced the completion of a National Institute of Health and National Cancer Institute-supported clinical study. The study's purpose was to evaluate the ability of the company's ProUroScan imaging system to visualize and document abnormalities in the prostate detected or monitored by the digital rectal exam (DRE).

9 Oct 2009

Eastern Maine Medical Center to implement real-time patient flow management system

Eastern Maine Medical Center's (EMMC) newly renovated 32,000 square foot Imaging Center is the high-tech host to an array of outpatient services, including CT scans, MRIs, Digital Mammography, Diagnostic Cardiology, Radiography and Ultrasound. Centralizing these medical services allowed EMMC to not only expand their offerings, but also alleviate parking congestion, long patient wait times and rescheduling.

9 Oct 2009

Study finds BSGI to be a cost-effective breast diagnostic imaging modality

Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI), a molecular breast imaging technique with comparable sensitivity to breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting breast carcinoma when used in pre-surgical planning for patients with known cancer diagnoses and is substantially less expensive than MRI, according to findings presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium in San Francisco, California.

9 Oct 2009

Premature aging of immune system develops amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Premature aging of the immune system appears to play a role in the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, according to research scientists from the Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and Sheba Medical Center in Israel.

9 Oct 2009

MUSC enrolls first patient in the Stroke Treatment And Revascularization Therapy trial

The Stroke Team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, SC, including Aquilla Turk, DO, Associate Professor of Radiology, M. Imran Chaudry, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, and Raymond D. Turner IV, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology, enrolled the first patient in the Stroke Treatment And Revascularization Therapy (START) trial.

8 Oct 2009

"Health This Week" television program shows how people are exploring to live better, healthier and longer lives

Health This Week with Donald Baillargeon is an internationally syndicated television program about the many ways people are exploring to live better, healthier and longer lives.

8 Oct 2009

Spectrascience receives Japanese patent for its Optical Biopsy Forceps System and Method of Sampling Tissue

SpectraScience, Inc., a San Diego based medical device company, today announced that it has been awarded Japanese Patent number 4361683 for its Optical Biopsy Forceps System and Method of Sampling Tissue.

8 Oct 2009

Specialists unanimously agree needle biopsy as 'best practice' for breast cancer diagnosis

A special report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that an alarming 35% of initial diagnostic breast biopsies in the United States are still being done using unnecessary open surgical techniques. This in spite of the fact that it costs as much as three times more than the much less invasive and equally accurate needle biopsy technique.

8 Oct 2009

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to present three abstracts at ASN Renal Week meeting

AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that three abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Renal Week meeting being held October 27-November 1, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

8 Oct 2009

University researchers create iPhone programs to help scientists and doctors study the human body

University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs - known as applications or "apps" - to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images.

8 Oct 2009

Hamamatsu to release its NanoZoomer 2.0 series slide scanners

Hamamatsu Corporation has announced the release of its next-generation slide scanners, the NanoZoomer 2.0 series. Operating at nearly twice the speed of the original series, the NanoZoomer 2.0 converts a 20 mm x 20 mm area on a glass slide into a 1.9-gigapixel color image in as little as 1 minute 40 seconds.

8 Oct 2009

Brain mapping and 3-D reconstruction redefined with Carl Zeiss' advanced electron microscope instruments

Electron microscopy and analysis instruments from Carl Zeiss are redefining the science of brain mapping and 3-D reconstruction. Wide-field, high resolution imaging, huge data storage and manipulation capabilities plus highly automated sample preparation techniques are yielding research results 100-times, or more, faster than ever before.

8 Oct 2009

White House honors PET researcher with National Science Award

Joanna Fowler, Ph.D., a major contributor to brain research and a pioneer in molecular imaging, is being recognized by the White House with the National Medal of Science-the highest award for lifetime achievement in science. Eight other researchers will join Fowler to receive the award at a White House ceremony on October 7.

8 Oct 2009

Imaging News and Research

Women with deleterious gene mutation diagnosed with breast cancer earlier than their previous generation

Canary Foundation to implement biosensor technologies for early cancer detection

Aperio's new digital slide sharing service for pathology incorporated as part of CAP’s Diagnostic Work Station

Learning new tasks causes changes in spontaneous brain activity patterns: Study

Magnetic resonance imaging to help diagnose hidden prostate cancer

HealthHelp to provide radiation oncology management on national scale

Diversified Information Technologies acquires a business process outsourcing firm

Clinical study for evaluating ProUroCare Medical's imaging system completes

Eastern Maine Medical Center to implement real-time patient flow management system

Study finds BSGI to be a cost-effective breast diagnostic imaging modality

Premature aging of immune system develops amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MUSC enrolls first patient in the Stroke Treatment And Revascularization Therapy trial

"Health This Week" television program shows how people are exploring to live better, healthier and longer lives

Spectrascience receives Japanese patent for its Optical Biopsy Forceps System and Method of Sampling Tissue

Specialists unanimously agree needle biopsy as 'best practice' for breast cancer diagnosis

AMAG Pharmaceuticals to present three abstracts at ASN Renal Week meeting

University researchers create iPhone programs to help scientists and doctors study the human body

Hamamatsu to release its NanoZoomer 2.0 series slide scanners

Brain mapping and 3-D reconstruction redefined with Carl Zeiss' advanced electron microscope instruments

White House honors PET researcher with National Science Award

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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