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Hologic revenue up, net income down in Q3
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Service revenue related to its installed base of full-field digital mammography systems powered women's imaging vendor Hologic to higher revenue in the company's third quarter of fiscal 2012.
July 29, 2012
Sectra to distribute Merge CAD software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PACS firm Sectra has inked a deal with Merge Healthcare to distribute the healthcare IT and advanced visualization developer's CADstream computer-aided detection (CAD) software.
July 29, 2012
Faxitron donates to breast cancer care in Latin America
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Specimen radiography vendor Faxitron will donate $500,000 worth of equipment and financial assistance toward improving the standard of care in breast cancer diagnosis across Latin America, the company said on Friday at the Inter-American Breast Cancer Conference in Cancun, Mexico.
July 26, 2012
iCAD debuts new mammo CAD platform
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) firm iCAD has unveiled its next-generation mammography CAD system, PowerLook Advanced Mammography Platform.
July 23, 2012
ABUS equals MRI as screening option for dense tissue
By Kate Madden Yee
Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) shows promise as a cost-effective adjunct screening modality compared to MRI for women who have dense breast tissue at mammography, according to a study published this month in the Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography.
July 23, 2012
NY governor signs dense breast notification bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill requiring that patients who have mammograms be notified if dense breast tissue is identified on their exams.
July 22, 2012
Aurora signs sales deal in China
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast MRI technology developer Aurora Imaging Technology has finalized an exclusive distribution agreement for its products in China with the SUMEC Group, an import/export corporation.
July 22, 2012
Does mammography save lives? And, FDA workshop on pediatric imaging
By Brian Casey
July 16, 2012
Analysis of Swedish county data is off the mark
By Dr. László Tabár
In this week's study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a research team claimed to find that mammography screening had no impact on mortality from breast cancer, based on their interpretation of data from Swedish counties. However, the group made a number of fatal mistakes in their analysis, according to Dr. László Tabár.
July 16, 2012
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Toshiba touts MicroPure US pilot study
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems said that a pilot study at Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) found that its MicroPure ultrasound image processing technique helped improve visualization of breast microcalcifications.
July 16, 2012
NY Times: FDA spies on employees
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A vast surveillance program at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) targeting employees unhappy with the agency's drug approval process has been discovered, according to an article in the July 16 New York Times.
July 16, 2012
JNCI study revives debate over mammography's mortality benefit
By Brian Casey
Does mammography really save lives? That's the question raised by a new study published July 17 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, which analyzed data from Sweden to conclude that there is no evidence that mammography screening has an impact on mortality from breast cancer in the country.
July 16, 2012
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