Clinical News: Page 1696

Firm launches BioShield radiation pill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Premier Micronutrient has begun commercial sales to consumers of its BioShield radiation protection pill, designed to mitigate DNA damage caused by exposure to radiation.
January 23, 2013
DBT could replace mammo for evaluating noncalcified lesions
By Kate Madden Yee
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) could replace conventional diagnostic mammography for further workup of noncalcified lesions found on screening mammography, according to a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
January 23, 2013
Overall revenues up in Varian's Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems posted increased revenue in the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year.
January 22, 2013
TeraMedica launches European headquarters
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical informatics and vendor-neutral archive firm TeraMedica has opened a new U.K. office to service Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
January 22, 2013
ACS: Risk of death from smoking spikes among women
By Eric Barnes
Women's smoking habits have grown increasingly to resemble those of men, and as a result, today's women face a dramatically higher risk of death from lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease compared with female smokers 20 to 40 years ago, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
January 22, 2013
CT scans map brain regions to emotional IQ
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers from the University of Illinois used CT to produce a detailed map of brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, or the ability to process emotional information. They found a significant overlap between general intelligence and emotional intelligence in a group of more than 150 Vietnam War veterans.
January 22, 2013
Automated software eases handling of patient CDs
By Erik L. Ridley
With little need for human intervention or training, a commercially available software application can reliably import images from CDs into a PACS network, according to researchers from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
January 22, 2013
Toshiba, Perkins team up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems and Perkins Healthcare Technologies have formed a strategic partnership.
January 21, 2013
FDDNP-PET shows toll of concussions on retired NFL players
By Wayne Forrest
For the first time, using the radiopharmaceutical FDDNP with PET, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have identified abnormal tau proteins associated with repetitive head injury in five former professional football players, according to a study in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
January 21, 2013
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New Mary's Musings; techs repeat more head CT; PET/MRI software
By Brian Casey
January 21, 2013
CliQr gains radiation therapy firm as client
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cloud management provider CliQr Technologies announced that radiation therapy system developer RefleXion Medical is using CliQr's CloudCenter platform to run physics simulations.
January 21, 2013
Y-90 beads extend survival of colon cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Patients who received radioembolization with yttrium-90 (Y-90) beads for metastatic colorectal cancer that had spread to the liver lived almost a year longer than expected, according to data presented at the Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology.
January 21, 2013
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