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SuperSonic Imagine reports results of largest worldwide multicenter clinical breast study in ultrasound imaging

SuperSonic Imagine, the innovative medical imaging company based in Aix-en-Provence, France has unveiled some of the results of the largest clinical breast study ever undertaken in ultrasound imaging. The worldwide multicenter study, involving top clinicians in the breast radiology community, is assessing the clinical benefits of ShearWave™ Elastography in the ultrasonic evaluation of breast lesions.

24 Apr 2010

Moffitt Cancer Center reports increasing interest in ERCC1 Analysis test for selecting chemotherapy for NSCLC

Moffitt Cancer Center announces steadily growing interest in the ERCC1 Analysis, the first test developed for selecting chemotherapy for Non Small Lung Cancer patients. Each year, more than 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer.

24 Apr 2010

Karolinska University Hospital acquires Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system

Prof. Lars Leksell (1907-1986), inventor of the radiosurgical instrument that bears his name and a faculty member of Karolinska University Hospital (Solna, Sweden), performed the world's first Gamma Knife surgery at nearby Sophiahemmet Hospital, the location of the first Leksell Gamma Knife. Karolinska University Hospital recently acquired Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system, Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion.

24 Apr 2010

Baptist Hospital East adopts CardiacAssist's TandemHeart System

CardiacAssist Inc. announced today that Baptist Hospital East has adopted the company's TandemHeart System.

23 Apr 2010

Facet Solutions announces data from ACADIA lumbar stenosis pilot study

Facet Solutions, Inc. today announced that it has finished compiling two year data from its lumbar stenosis pilot study in the US. At two years, patients in the ACADIA™ study experienced significant and sustained improvement in Oswestry Disability Index, VAS back pain and VAS leg pain. There were no re-operations in any of the patients, and all patients met the definition of success for ODI improvement.

23 Apr 2010

Study finds no decrease in access to medical care for sicker patients needing CABG surgery

New UC Davis research has found that patients scheduled to undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in California were just as ill in 2003 - when public reporting of performance data for this particular surgery began - as in 2006, evidence that "report cards" did not cause doctors or hospitals to turn away sicker patients.

23 Apr 2010

QF-CMV test helps predict transplant recipients at increased risk of CMV disease after surgery

New international guidelines published in the journal Transplantation reinforce the use of a new type of blood test to assess cytomegalovirus (CMV) risk in solid organ transplant recipients (i.e. transplant recipients). This blood test, QuantiFERON®-CMV (QF-CMV), is the first commercially-available blood test to allow physicians to monitor a person's risk of CMV disease. Most commonly used in the transplant setting, QF-CMV may predict which transplant recipients are at increased risk of CMV disease after transplant surgery.

23 Apr 2010

Additional training may benefit physicians who interpret screening mammograms

A multi-site study led by an Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute researcher has identified set criteria that could be used to help identify physicians who might benefit from additional training in interpreting screening mammograms.

23 Apr 2010

New blood test to determine patients at low risk for rejection of transplanted hearts

After his heart transplant in 2005, Ramon Llenado underwent a biopsy every week, then every month, then every three months. Most heart transplant patients face a lifetime of these invasive tests, which involve snipping out tiny pieces of heart to check for possible organ rejection.

23 Apr 2010

Techniques to protect organs during bypass surgery impair autoregulation, increase risk of stroke: Study

The standard practice of cooling and then rewarming a patient to prevent organ damage during cardiac bypass surgery may impair the body's mechanism that controls blood flow to the brain, potentially increasing the patient's risk of stroke, new research from Johns Hopkins suggests.

23 Apr 2010

Hospitals striving to provide balloon angioplasties in under 60 minutes for patients undergoing heart attacks

National guidelines say patients undergoing heart attacks should receive balloon angioplasties as soon as possible or within 90 minutes of arriving at the hospital -- known as the "door-to-balloon time."

23 Apr 2010

Insufficient evidence on prostate cancer radiation treatment

Reuters: "There is not enough evidence to sort out the effect of various radiation treatments for prostate cancer patients, especially newer, so-called focused radiation, an advisory panel told the U.S. Medicare agency on Wednesday.

23 Apr 2010

Better diagnostics in prostate cancer needed

A flurry of confusing research about the benefits of PSA testing has left many men and their physicians reticent to use a test that may be life-saving, says a panel of prostate cancer experts. The experts who gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday agreed that PSA testing, while not cancer-specific, is one of the best available tools for early detection of a cancer that kills 27,000 American men each year.

23 Apr 2010

Genentech submits sBLA for Herceptin plus chemotherapy for advanced HER2-positive stomach cancer

Genentech, Inc., a wholly owned member of the Roche Group, announced today that the company submitted a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Herceptin® (trastuzumab) plus chemotherapy in people with advanced, HER2-positive adenocarcinoma of the stomach, including gastroesophageal junction cancer.

23 Apr 2010

BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System combined with chemotherapy promising for children with high-risk tumors

BSD Medical Corporation today reported clinical study data showing that hyperthermia, using the BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System, combined with chemotherapy has the potential to improve control rate and long-term survival for the treatment of children with high-risk cancer who have a dismal prognosis.

23 Apr 2010

SVS publishes first supplement on diversity articles to Journal of Vascular Surgery

The Society for Vascular Surgery published its first supplement on diversity articles to its Journal of Vascular Surgery in April 2010.

23 Apr 2010

Tryton Medical widens European availability of Side Branch Stent System

Tryton Medical, Inc., the leading developer of stents designed to definitively treat bifurcation lesions, today announced the launch of the TRYTON Side Branch Stent™ System in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The stent is used to treat bifurcation lesions, the largest unmet need confronting interventional cardiology.

23 Apr 2010

Genetic tests that may replace biopsies

Genetic tests conducted on blood samples may replace the current biopsies when it comes to checking if immune systems are rejecting new organs of heart transplant patients. The test would be far less invasive and uncomfortable as compared to the biopsies, not to mention more affordable.

23 Apr 2010

FDA grants conditional approval for first approved Total Spine Arthroplasty system clinical study

Flexuspine, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted conditional approval to begin the initial phase of the Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) for a feasibility study of its FSU device. This is the first approved clinical study for a Total Spine Arthroplasty system in the U.S.

23 Apr 2010

Cytori announces launch of PureGraft 250 fat grafting technology at ASAPS meeting

Cytori announces the product launch of PureGraft 250, a revolutionary fat grafting technology that standardizes the graft preparation process for use in aesthetic body contouring at the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons meeting.

23 Apr 2010

Medical Procedure News

SuperSonic Imagine reports results of largest worldwide multicenter clinical breast study in ultrasound imaging

Moffitt Cancer Center reports increasing interest in ERCC1 Analysis test for selecting chemotherapy for NSCLC

Karolinska University Hospital acquires Elekta's fifth generation radiosurgery system

Baptist Hospital East adopts CardiacAssist's TandemHeart System

Facet Solutions announces data from ACADIA lumbar stenosis pilot study

Study finds no decrease in access to medical care for sicker patients needing CABG surgery

QF-CMV test helps predict transplant recipients at increased risk of CMV disease after surgery

Additional training may benefit physicians who interpret screening mammograms

New blood test to determine patients at low risk for rejection of transplanted hearts

Techniques to protect organs during bypass surgery impair autoregulation, increase risk of stroke: Study

Hospitals striving to provide balloon angioplasties in under 60 minutes for patients undergoing heart attacks

Insufficient evidence on prostate cancer radiation treatment

Better diagnostics in prostate cancer needed

Genentech submits sBLA for Herceptin plus chemotherapy for advanced HER2-positive stomach cancer

BSD-2000 Hyperthermia System combined with chemotherapy promising for children with high-risk tumors

SVS publishes first supplement on diversity articles to Journal of Vascular Surgery

Tryton Medical widens European availability of Side Branch Stent System

Genetic tests that may replace biopsies

FDA grants conditional approval for first approved Total Spine Arthroplasty system clinical study

Cytori announces launch of PureGraft 250 fat grafting technology at ASAPS meeting

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Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

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