Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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Radiology: 7T MRI propels epilepsy diagnosis, treatment

7T MRI may provide the key to improved patient selection and surgical planning for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy, according to research published online July 11 in Radiology.

Study: Mobile programs could help diabetes management

An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a study to be published in the September issue of Diabetes Care.

Radiology: Promising processing tool automates stenosis measurements

A virtual elastic sphere processing tool offers a quantifiable, reproducible mechanism to measure vessel stenosis on CT angiography and MR angiography datasets, according to a study published online July 25 in Radiology.

FDA green-lights Medtronic's trial for MRI-safe pacemaker

The FDA has approved Medtronics investigational device exemption application and clinical trial protocol to begin evaluating Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system.

AR: DWI/CT fusion may play role in cancer detection, staging

Researchers demonstrated that it is technically feasible to fuse diffusion-weighted images (DWI) with CT images, a multimodality molecular technique that may be used in the detection and staging of cancer, according to a study published in the August issue of Academic Radiology.

Emerging markets to propel global imaging market to $24B by 2016

The global market for diagnostic imaging will exceed $24.4 billion by 2016 with a compound annual growth rate of 6 percent from 2009 to 2016, according to a report published by GBI Research.

Researchers develop artifical lung that uses air

It may be as far as 10 years down the road before its tested on humans, but researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have developed an artificial lung capable of using airnot pure oxygen as current man-made lungs requireto ventilate blood.

Canadian hospital selects Omnicell for med management

Royal Victoria Hospital has selected the Omnicell G4 platform for medication management throughout its facility.

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