TomTec, leading provider of medical imaging software solutions for multimodality quantification, visualization and image management, and Medis, a leading provider of quantification software solutions, today announced the launch of a joint cardiac imaging and analysis product for X-ray angiography and ultrasound. The combined solution is a fully integrated software package that consists of TomTec's Image-Arena™ and Medis' QAngio® XA quantification software. Read more ...
The rate of cancer incidence in the U.S. has begun to decrease in recent years and cancer mortality rates have continued to decline, marking for the first time the downward trend in both, according to an analysis published Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Washington Post reports. Read more ...
It's a parents worst nightmare, a newborn baby going under the knife to repair a heart defect. If the baby survives, that's when the real work begins for parents. University of Alberta nursing professor Gwen Rempel has seen hundreds of babies on the brink as a former pediatric cardiology nurse; she wanted to find out just what parents go through. "I'm not 100 per cent convinced that health-care professionals get what these parents are doing," said Rempel. Read more ...
Scientists who have developed a new technique that can test for up to 5,000 different allergens from just one drop of blood have scooped a prestigious national award which encourages innovation in healthcare technologies. The new basophil-microarray based allergy assay is the brainchild of researchers in The University of Nottingham's Schools of Pharmacy and Biosciences, in collaboration with colleagues in the Centre for Respiratory Research at Nottingham City Hospital. Read more ...
Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is a sleep disorder characterised by snoring, repetitive apnoeas associated with oxygen desaturations, and sleep disruption. It has been estimated that 2-4% of the adult population in Western countries suffer from clinically significant OSAS. OSAS has also been associated with high blood pressure, stroke and myocardial ischaemia in epidemiological and observational studies. Read more ...
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