Device to Limit Chemotherapy Side Effects
Researchers have developed a device that can limit the side effects of chemotherapy.
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Post-Processing Capabilities of PACS Revealed Live
The CARESTREAM PACS workstation was put through its paces at the recent 5th Scanner Volumique Conference held in Nancy, France. This annual event provides the technology platform for live demonstrations of the very latest versions of CT image post-processing software, which this year for the first time included a PACS console.
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Apollo Hospitals, all across the country are now covered in
ET TRIVITRON Medical Solutions
ET Medical Devices, Italy, a highly specialised cardiac diagnostics Equipment Company is now a part of Trivitron Family.
Genetic Test to Predict Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness
Researchers are developing a genetic test to predict prostate cancer aggressiveness, which could save men with low-risk tumours from unnecessary surgery.
1 in 100 Children born with congenital heart disease
Over one percent of all children born in India are born with congenital heart diseases.
Local Chemotherapy Delivery to Tumours
Royal Philips Electronics and Eindhoven University of Technology announced an important development in MRI-guided local drug delivery for cancer treatment. Image-guided drug delivery has been studied by scientists all around the world for almost a decade because it may enable a beneficial increase in tumor chemotherapy drug levels, thereby increasing treatment efficacy without an increase in adverse side effects. The joint research team has now demonstrated in pre-clinical studies that an improved local drug uptake in tumors is achieved, and that it can be visualised and measured in real time.
Local Chemotherapy Delivery to Tumours
Royal Philips Electronics and Eindhoven University of Technology announced an important development in MRI-guided local drug delivery for cancer treatment. Image-guided drug delivery has been studied by scientists all around the world for almost a decade because it may enable a beneficial increase in tumor chemotherapy drug levels, thereby increasing treatment efficacy without an increase in adverse side effects. The joint research team has now demonstrated in pre-clinical studies that an improved local drug uptake in tumors is achieved, and that it can be visualised and measured in real time.
Silent strokes could cause learning deficits
Silent strokes, which have no immediate symptoms but could cause long-term cognitive and learning deficits, occur in a significant number of severely anemic children, especially those with sickle cell disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2011.
Schiller India launches a new MRI Monitor
Schiller India, a leading Swiss Joint Venture Company in the field of Medical Diagnostics, has launched a new MRI compatible monitor called MAGLIFE Serenity.
Trivitron Launches Point Of Care Haemoglobin Meter
Anemia is the most common medical disorder in pregnancy having a high prence in developing countries like India.
Device in the Pulmonary Artery could Reduce Heart Failure
An implantable device that monitors fluid build up in the lungs of heart failure patients and alerts doctors when intervention is needed can significantly reduce hospitalisations, according to a study published in The Lancet.
First Totally Implanted Hearing Aid
A 49-year-old woman has received the UK’s first totally implanted hearing aid, Otologics Carina, in a procedure performed at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth.
