Michael Lenarduzzi, CEO of The Wave, Muscat, accepted the award for Best International Architecture which was announced at a glittering ceremony held in San Diego, California this week. At this year’s CNBC…
Toshiba’s Aquilion ONE Makes Paediatric Imaging Easy
Toshiba America Medical Systems has developed a superior imaging system that caters to paediatric imaging needs. Aquilion ONE 320-detector row CT system circumvents the challenges posed by paediatric patients such as smaller…
GE Healthcare acquires Living Independently Group
Dec 02, 2009 — GE Healthcare a division of GE — Provider of transformational medical technologies has acquired Living Independently Group Inc, the provider of QuietCare. Financial terms of the acquisition were…
ECRI Institute Issues “Top Ten Health Technology Hazards for 2010”
What are the biggest safety hazards hospitals and healthcare facilities should watch out for today? ECRI Institute releases its 2010 Top Ten Health Technology Hazards, a list of hazards that healthcare organizations…
New Source To Generate Nerve Cells In The Brain Discovered
Stem cell researchers at the Institute of Stem Cell Research at Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen discovered regions in the forebrain of humans that are capable of developing new nerve cells. This discovery is…
CellaVision’s new analyzer receives FDA clearance for the US market
CellaVision AB (publ), which develops and sells digital morphology products for the routine analysis of blood and other body fluids, has received clearance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market…
Generics will continue domination on the pharmaceutical market in Europe until 2011
2nd December 2009 : The pharmaceutical market in Central and Eastern Europe is dominated by generic drugs. This subdivision was worth €17.2bn in 2008 and is expected to develop by around 14%…
Taiwan to promote internationalized medical care services
According to Taiwan’s Economic Development Vision for 2015, industrialization of medical care services and Flagship Project has been kept as a key development priority. In October 2007, the Taiwan’s Department of Health…
New Medical Imaging Technique- Dynamic MRI, Makes Possible The Identification Of Pelvic Organ Prolapse In Women
A group of disorders that involve hernias of the female pelvic organs is termed as a prolapse. Pelvic organ prolapse is a common problem witnessed in older women who have experienced vaginal…
Mammogram radiation may put some women at risk
Low-dose radiation from mammograms and chest X-rays may increase the risk of breast cancer in young women who are already at high risk because of family history or genetic susceptibility, Dutch researchers…
French scientists create skin fast from stem cells
French scientists have found a way to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, a discovery that could save the lives of many burns victims who are vulnerable to infection and now…
Half of world’s ICU patients have infections
Half of all patients in intensive care units around the world have infections, and more than 70 percent are being given antibiotics — a trend that could help more drug-resistant superbugs emerge,…
Heart Attack causes & Cures
Heart attack and stroke are the leading killers, but not because science has failed. On the contrary, medical pioneers long ago uncovered the cause of cardiovascular disease, aka “heart disease.” It is…
Significant potential of late- and mid-stage Novartis hematology portfolio
Late-breaking abstract to report data from pivotal trial of Tasigna(R) versus Gleevec(R) in newly diagnosed patients with a form of chronic myeloid leukemia – Data from Phase II studies to show the…
Britain’s Lost Engineers
Oxford Intelligence Research Shows More Than Half of the UK’s Workers With Advanced Engineering Skills Have Been Lost to the Industry 58 per cent of the UK’s most highly-trained and experienced engineers…