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Food labeling, product placement intervention can promote healthy choices

The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A Massachusetts General Hospital team reports in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine that the previously reported changes in the proportions of more and less healthy foods purchased in the months after their program began have persisted up to two years after the labeling intervention was introduced.

7 Jan 2014

Carestream Health awarded $70.2M contract extension for medical imaging systems

Carestream Health has been awarded an extension of its contract with the U.S. Defense Department that allows the federal government and federal agencies to spend up to $70.2 million for digital radiography and computed radiography medical imaging systems.

3 Jan 2014

Apple Valley Medical Clinic Sleep Center moves to 14843 Energy Way in Apple Valley

The Apple Valley Medical Clinic's Sleep Center has moved to 14843 Energy Way in Apple Valley. The center, which opened in 2010 under the medical direction of Scott Benson, M.D., a family medicine physician with the Apple Valley Medical Clinic, offers preventive care, diagnosis and referral for treatment of sleep disorders.

3 Jan 2014

Study: Diffusion tensor MRI-based tractography can be used to evaluate nerve root function

If bulging or protruding intervertebral discs occupies the intervertebral foramen, and nerve roots are compressed. The cross-sectional area of nerve root fibers is reduced, fiber bundles gathered together and interrupted at the affected side, with no branching.

3 Jan 2014

Researchers uncover new genetic clue that contributes to increased risk of type 2 diabetes

An international team of researchers in Mexico and the United States has uncovered a new genetic clue that contributes to an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, particularly the elevated risk among Mexican and other Latin American populations.

26 Dec 2013

Dynasil announces sale of Navigator Gamma Medical Probe product line to Dilon Technologies

Dynasil Corporation of America, a developer of sensing, detection and analysis technology for homeland security, medical and industrial applications, today announced the December 23, 2013 sale of the assets of its Navigator Gamma Medical Probe product line to Dilon Technologies, Inc. of Newport News, Virginia.

24 Dec 2013

Possible mechanism behind elevated risk of cardiovascular disease discovered in HIV-infected women

A Massachusetts General Hospital research team has discovered a possible mechanism behind the elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in women infected with HIV, a risk even higher than that of HIV-infected men. In the Dec. 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases the investigators report finding that HIV-infected women had a greater prevalence of the type of coronary artery plaque most vulnerable to rupture than did uninfected women.

14 Dec 2013

Market research report on global and China insulin industry

As the third largest human health disease following neoplastic disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the number of diabetic patients has continued growing from 246 million in 2007 to 382 million in 2013 at a compound annual growth rate of 7.6%.

12 Dec 2013

New algorithm separates signals into individual frequencies using minimal number of samples

The fast Fourier transform, one of the most important algorithms of the 20th century, revolutionized signal processing. The algorithm allowed computers to quickly perform Fourier transforms - fundamental operations that separate signals into their individual frequencies - leading to developments in audio and video engineering and digital data compression.

12 Dec 2013

Researchers awarded $25 million NIH grant to study critical limb ischemia treatment

A team of researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital has been awarded $25 million by the National Institutes of Health to conduct a four-year, randomized clinical trial-the BEST-CLI Trial (Best Endovascular versus Best Surgical Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia). The trial will compare traditional bypass surgery with the less invasive alternative of endovascular treatment for patients with critical limb ischemia.

11 Dec 2013

NIST develops prototype calibration tools for experimental medical imaging technique

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed prototype calibration tools for an experimental medical imaging technique that offers new advantages in diagnosing and monitoring of certain cancers and possibly other medical conditions.

9 Dec 2013

Novel device may simplify monitoring of patients' response to treatment for ovarian cancer

A microchip-based device developed by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may greatly simplify the monitoring of patients' response to treatment for ovarian cancer - the most lethal form of gynecologic cancer - and certain other malignancies.

6 Dec 2013

Reimbursement cuts for image-guided breast biopsies may reduce women's access to mammography

Drastic reimbursement cuts for image-guided breast biopsies, and other medical imaging techniques in the 2014 Medicare Fee Schedule Final Rule, may further reduce women's access to mammography and other breast cancer services. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services directly cut imaging reimbursement every year since 2007. This, along with 12 Medicare imaging cuts in the last six years due to legislation, increasingly threatens patient care.

3 Dec 2013

JHL Biotech installs GE Healthcare's FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform at Hsinchu plant in Taiwan

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and JHL Biotech today announced that GE Healthcare has completed installation of its FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform at JHL Biotech's Research Center and manufacturing plant in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

2 Dec 2013

Northwest ImageShare provides better patient care, shorter wait times in emergency departments

Northwest ImageShare, now installed and running at 42 locations throughout the Kitsap Peninsula, is fulfilling its initial goals of better patient care and shorter wait-times spent in the emergency department.

2 Dec 2013

GE Healthcare introduces new Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound System at RSNA 2013

GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, introduced today the new Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound System at the 2013 Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

2 Dec 2013

NDSC offers free trial access to ACR Select portal

National Decision Support Company, the American College of Radiology's partner for the distribution of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria is offering free trial access to its ACR Select portal.

1 Dec 2013

CoActiv Medical to introduce EXAM-PACS version 3.0 at 2013 RSNA conference

CoActiv Medical debuts at the 2013 Radiological Society of North America conference EXAM-PACS version 3.0. CoActiv leverages its longstanding experience with standards-based technology to bring new market-leading features and functionality to its flagship enterprise PACS and to provide more options and flexibility across the entire product line with expanded deployment options and a more robust vendor neutral archive.

29 Nov 2013

Leti highlights new imaging technology at IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference

Researchers from CEA-Leti’s Detector Laboratory presented four oral papers and one invited paper at the recent IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference & Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors in Seoul, Korea.

28 Nov 2013

MIT Media Lab develops "nano-camera" that operates at speed of light

A $500 "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab.

27 Nov 2013

Medical Imaging News and Research

Food labeling, product placement intervention can promote healthy choices

Carestream Health awarded $70.2M contract extension for medical imaging systems

Apple Valley Medical Clinic Sleep Center moves to 14843 Energy Way in Apple Valley

Study: Diffusion tensor MRI-based tractography can be used to evaluate nerve root function

Researchers uncover new genetic clue that contributes to increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Dynasil announces sale of Navigator Gamma Medical Probe product line to Dilon Technologies

Possible mechanism behind elevated risk of cardiovascular disease discovered in HIV-infected women

Market research report on global and China insulin industry

New algorithm separates signals into individual frequencies using minimal number of samples

Researchers awarded $25 million NIH grant to study critical limb ischemia treatment

NIST develops prototype calibration tools for experimental medical imaging technique

Novel device may simplify monitoring of patients' response to treatment for ovarian cancer

Reimbursement cuts for image-guided breast biopsies may reduce women's access to mammography

JHL Biotech installs GE Healthcare's FlexFactory biomanufacturing platform at Hsinchu plant in Taiwan

Northwest ImageShare provides better patient care, shorter wait times in emergency departments

GE Healthcare introduces new Invenia Automated Breast Ultrasound System at RSNA 2013

NDSC offers free trial access to ACR Select portal

CoActiv Medical to introduce EXAM-PACS version 3.0 at 2013 RSNA conference

Leti highlights new imaging technology at IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference

MIT Media Lab develops "nano-camera" that operates at speed of light

Industry Focus eBook - Cell & Gene Therapy (1st Edition) eBook

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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