Biomarker Identification May Lead to New Noninvasive Test for Colorectal...
(Source: Reed Elsevier plc) Philadelphia, PA, June 7, 2013 The average 5-year survival for colorectal cancer (CRC) is less than 10% if metastasis occurs, but can reach 90% if detected early. A new...
View ArticleBiotech Services Take Advantage of Technological Revolution through...
NEW YORK, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Editor Note: For more information about this release, please scroll to bottom. Today, Wall Street Reports announced new research reports highlighting Life...
View ArticleSiemens Introduces Continuous FlowMotion PET•CT
With anatomy-based FlowMotion™ technology, Biograph mCT Flow™ is the first PET/CT system to offer continuous motion PET/CT scanning for the finest* detail in every organ FlowMotion expands reproducible...
View ArticleAgfa HealthCare Expands Enterprise Imaging Platform with Release of ICIS View...
(Source: NEMA - National Electrical Manufacturers Association) Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of enterprise clinical imaging and IT solutions, announced the global release for sale ofICIS(TM) View...
View ArticleSiemens Introduces Continuous FlowMotion PET-CT
At the 2013 annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), June 8-12 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Siemens Healthcare (booth 720) will introduce Biograph mCT Flow – a...
View ArticleLehigh Valley Health Network to build health center in Washington Township,...
Lehigh Valley Health Network is planning to build a health center where Majestic Athletic once had an outlet in...
View ArticleProminent Medical Faculty to be Honored by Johns Hopkins University (JHU)...
(Source: The Johns Hopkins University) In what has become a much-anticipated biennial tradition, the JHU Alumni Association will honor 11 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine faculty members at...
View ArticleThree out of 20 scopes used to examine GI tracts and colons improperly cleaned
In an abstract to be presented at the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), researchers in the 3M Infection Prevention Division...
View ArticleRadiation Oncology Resources, Inc. Signs Multi-Year Agreement to provide The...
(Source: McKesson Corporation) Radiation Oncology Resources, Inc. Signs Multi-Year Agreement to provide The US Oncology Network its ROQS℠ Quality System June 06, 2013 New system aims to enhance quality...
View ArticleNIHs NCCAM welcomes four new advisory council members
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health welcomes four new members to the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative...
View ArticleDateline Pittsburgh for the week of 06/09/13
Banking S&T Bancorp Inc. has announced several leadership changes on its board of directors. James C. Miller -- former CEO and president, S&T Bank, and chairman of the S&T Bancorp board of...
View ArticleCutting Unneeded CT Scans in Kids Could Lower Future Cancer Risk
Reducing radiation dosage would also help, study found MONDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose CT scans given to children could cut their lifetime risk of...
View ArticleLehigh Valley Health Network center in Washington Township, Northampton...
Express-Times Photo | BILL ADAMS The first phase of construction for the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s new health center in Washington Township, Northampton County, is set to begin at the end of the...
View ArticleCooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center Announce...
CAMDEN, N.J., June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper University Health Care and MD Anderson Cancer Center have signed a letter of intent to form a partnership that will provide cancer patients in the...
View ArticleCancer Network Covers the Top Stories from 2013 ASCO Meeting
NORWALK, Conn., June 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Medica US announces that Cancer Network, home of the journal ONCOLOGY and the long-trusted reference book Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary...
View ArticleJoan Wohlgemuth, radiologist, dies at age 80
Joan Wohlgemuth radiologist Joan Wohlgemuth, the former chief of the radiology department at Physicians Memorial Hospital in La Plata, now Civista Medical Center, died May 30 of congestive heart...
View ArticleDirty Endoscopes Raising Alarms for Colonoscopies
What's in your endoscope? A new study disturbingly discovered that an average of 15 percent of flexible endoscopes used to examine GI tracts and colons at five hospitals were harboring "bio-dirt"—cells...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Nuclear Medicine Specialist Receives International Award (The...
(Source: The Johns Hopkins University) A Johns Hopkins expert in brain imaging, Dean F. Wong, M.D., Ph.D., has been honored with the prestigious 2013 Paul C. Aebersold Award for his contributions over...
View ArticleIslanders to benefit from enhancements to provincial Electronic Health Record...
(Source: Government of Prince Edward Island) June 7, 2013 For immediate release Islanders to benefit from enhancements to provincial Electronic Health Record Health PEI Island hospitals are...
View ArticleGE Healthcare Launches Centricity Imaging IT Tour 2013 in Dallas (GE -...
(Source: GE - General Electric Company) DALLAS - June 6, 2013 - Between June and October, 2013, healthcare providers at hospitals and medical centers across the US and Canada can experience GE...
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