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Carnegie Hill Radiology in New York installs Aquilion PRIME 160 series from Toshiba

Patients with irregular heartbeats (arrhythmia) are difficult to image with CT. Addressing this challenge, Carnegie Hill Radiology in New York installed the Aquilion PRIME 160 series from Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., featuring SURECardio Prospective software that automatically adjusts for irregular heartbeats, providing quicker, more accurate exams.

30 Aug 2012

Edge CT now available in NYU Langone's Department of Radiology clinical practice

NYU Langone Medical Center is the first in the country to offer patients access to the new Siemens Somatom Definition Edge single-source computed tomography system (Edge CT), one of the world's fastest CT scanners capable of generating high quality, 3-D diagnostic images using extremely low radiation.

28 Aug 2012

Baylor Plano first hospital to merge MEM software and Epoch platform for atrial fibrillation therapy

Baylor Plano became the first hospital in the world on Friday to merge two highly advanced technologies for atrial fibrillation therapy.

27 Aug 2012

MedQIA develops new software that forms the basis of Imaging Biomarker Information System

MedQIA has developed a software toolkit of image analysis routines that forms the basis of an Imaging Biomarker Information System (IBIS).

27 Aug 2012

Latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development now available in IEEE Xplore

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, announced that the latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development, a special issue on Technologies for Healthcare Transformation, is now exclusively available in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

27 Aug 2012

PathGEN signs Powered by Affymetrix Program agreement

Affymetrix, Inc. and PathGEN Dx Pte. Ltd., a spin-off molecular diagnostics company founded by researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore, today announced they have signed a Powered by Affymetrix (PbA) Program agreement

24 Aug 2012

FDA clears Toshiba’s Aquilion RXL Edition CT system

Offering healthcare providers a CT system designed for acute and routine imaging, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has received FDA clearance for its Aquilion RXL Edition CT system.

23 Aug 2012

Statin's potency may cause muscle problems in patients with cardiovascular disease

A study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, published August 22 online by PLoS ONE, reports that muscle problems reported by patients taking statins were related to the strength or potency of the given cholesterol-lowering drugs.

23 Aug 2012

Miniaturized wireless sensors can save lives of wounded soldiers

Early detection of blood loss to save the lives of soldiers wounded on the battlefield is the goal of a three-year research and development project to be launched this fall at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Funded by a $1.9 million grant from the U.S. Army, the research will be conducted in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS).

22 Aug 2012

Segasist Technologies launches crowd funding campaign to bring Reconcillio software on cloud

Segasist Technologies, a Canadian software company developing next-generation image contouring platforms for biomedical applications, has launched a crowd funding campaign to bring its software Reconcillio on cloud.

22 Aug 2012

Chemotherapy during pregnancy: an interview with Professor Sibylle Loibl

The incidence is about 1-3% of all breast cancers. The incidence seems to be increasing due to women delaying their childbearing to when they are in their thirties.

22 Aug 2012

Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor IHME's health measurement expert

For the first time, a prestigious technical innovation honor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will go to an expert in health measurement: Abraham Flaxman, an Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington (UW).

22 Aug 2012

New tool reveals surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy

A new tool to observe cell behavior has revealed surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy, and may offer a way to further refine personalized cancer treatments.

21 Aug 2012

Scientists demonstrate automated worm sorter for biological research

Research into the genetic factors behind certain disease mechanisms, illness progression and response to new drugs is frequently carried out using tiny multi-cellular animals such as nematodes, fruit flies or zebra fish.

20 Aug 2012

Four Rivers Software Systems, Fluke Biomedical introduce new interface for Ansur

Fluke Biomedical and Four Rivers Software Systems announced today the launch of a joint TMS Fluke Interface to integrate Ansur software with Four Rivers Software's computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) solution, TMS OnSite/TMS OnLine.

17 Aug 2012

New tool reveals surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy

A new tool to observe cell behavior has revealed surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy - and may offer a way to further refine personalized cancer treatments.

15 Aug 2012

Study investigates why organisms retain seemingly unnecessary stages in their development

Why, after millions of years of evolution, do organisms build structures that seemingly serve no purpose? A study conducted at Michigan State University and published in the current issue of The American Naturalist investigates the evolutionary reasons why organisms go through developmental stages that appear unnecessary.

13 Aug 2012

Longer looks: Waking up to the need for sleep

Among the more than 11,000 dearly departed inhabitants of Southeast Portland's Multnomah Park Cemetery, friends Eric Cordingley and David Anderson have their favorites: a reputed French madam, a young Norwegian institutionalized for being gay, and Louis Napoleon Lepley -- or, as they call him, "Louis the cannibal." Intriguing as their individual stories may be, together they help tell a bigger, darker tale

10 Aug 2012

NSF awards Yale University and UCSD collaborative grant to develop Neuroscience Gateway

The University of California, at San Diego and Yale University have been awarded a collaborative grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a Neuroscience Gateway (NSG) that gives neuroscientists broadened access to essential high-performance computing (HPC) and storage resources.

9 Aug 2012

Ill. ACO showing promise on lowering hospital readmissions

The program, set up by Advocate, covers 380,000 enrollees, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Meanwhile, other outlets look at health law implementation efforts in Massachusetts and California.

6 Aug 2012

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Carnegie Hill Radiology in New York installs Aquilion PRIME 160 series from Toshiba

Edge CT now available in NYU Langone's Department of Radiology clinical practice

Baylor Plano first hospital to merge MEM software and Epoch platform for atrial fibrillation therapy

MedQIA develops new software that forms the basis of Imaging Biomarker Information System

Latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development now available in IEEE Xplore

PathGEN signs Powered by Affymetrix Program agreement

FDA clears Toshiba’s Aquilion RXL Edition CT system

Statin's potency may cause muscle problems in patients with cardiovascular disease

Miniaturized wireless sensors can save lives of wounded soldiers

Segasist Technologies launches crowd funding campaign to bring Reconcillio software on cloud

Chemotherapy during pregnancy: an interview with Professor Sibylle Loibl

Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor IHME's health measurement expert

New tool reveals surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy

Scientists demonstrate automated worm sorter for biological research

Four Rivers Software Systems, Fluke Biomedical introduce new interface for Ansur

New tool reveals surprising clues about how cancer cells respond to therapy

Study investigates why organisms retain seemingly unnecessary stages in their development

Longer looks: Waking up to the need for sleep

NSF awards Yale University and UCSD collaborative grant to develop Neuroscience Gateway

Ill. ACO showing promise on lowering hospital readmissions

Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit eBook

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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