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Vale do Javari: One of the world's last wild places
By Brian Casey
The Vale do Javari is an isolated region in the Amazon jungle of Brazil, covering about 20.7 million acres between the Ituí and Itaquaí rivers along the border with Peru and Colombia. The region is home to more than 50 tribal cultures, some of whom have never been contacted by the outside world -- and many of whom who hope that it stays that way.
April 1, 2004
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Scanning the globe: Digital technology delivers healthcare to the jungle
By Brian Casey
The imaging equipment being brought on the Imagem do Javari Expedition shows how recent technological advances are enabling clinicians to deliver imaging services to remote corners of the globe that were inaccessible just a few years ago. From portable ultrasound to satellite teleradiology uplinks, the expedition will serve as a proving ground to demonstrate digital technology's potential to improve patient care in underserved areas.
April 1, 2004
Expedition brings radiology to remote reaches of the Amazon
By Brian Casey
Sydney Possuelo is on a mission. A tireless defender of indigenous peoples in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, Possuelo next week will embark on the latest of his frequent trips upriver to explore and make contact with indigenous tribes. But this time he'll be bringing something new into the jungle: medical imaging technology to find and diagnose a series of Western diseases that have devastated native peoples in the Amazon's Vale do Javari region.
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Expedition brings radiology to heart of Amazon
By Brian Casey
It's a jungle out there for radiology -- literally. In a story that could have been ripped from an Indiana Jones movie, a Brazilian expedition is set to depart next week for the darkest reaches of the Amazon rainforest. The intrepid team will use medical imaging technology to find and diagnose diseases that are threatening some of the most remote indigenous peoples on the planet.
April 1, 2004
New wireless network options offer benefits, despite security concerns
By Erik L. Ridley
Healthcare providers are increasingly demanding mobile computing devices for use as decision-support tools. And wireless networking is a fundamental enabling technology for mobile computing. For example, it gives users the ability to show images to patients in a more intimate fashion than a standard PC, according to Dr. Paul Chang, director of radiology informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
April 1, 2004
Proxima receives clearance for new MammoSite catheters
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation-therapy developer Proxima Therapeutics of Alpharetta, GA, said it has received Food and Drug Administration marketing clearance for elliptical-shaped balloon catheters for its MammoSite catheter-based radiation treatment device.
March 31, 2004
Guidant completes stent trial enrollment
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer Guidant has completed enrollment in Spirit First, a clinical trial evaluating the Indianapolis-based firm's second drug-eluting stent system for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
March 31, 2004
Boston Life Sciences gets FDA OK for Altropane trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Pharmaceutical firm Boston Life Sciences has reached an agreement with the Food and Drug Administration for the phase III clinical trial of its radioimaging agent Altropane.
March 31, 2004
Prioritizing data with information life cycle management
Robert Terdeman of Rogers Communications shares how his Toronto group deployed an information life cycle management strategy, building a single information repository that serves multiple users and seamlessly matches information to the most appropriate storage resources.
March 31, 2004
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CBCN seeks input for rural breast cancer community Web site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian Breast Cancer Network plans to launch a Web site for women and men in rural, remote locations who have breast cancer.
March 31, 2004
GE hits Discovery ST milestone
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has installed its 100th Discovery ST PET/CT system, which began shipping eight months ago.
March 31, 2004
CT scores bit part in latest Jim Carrey film
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The title may be obscure (it's a line from an Alexander Pope poem), but imaging professionals will definitely recognize one element in the new movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: CT scans.
March 31, 2004
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