IceCure Medical has announced that the John Wayne Cancer Institute (JWCI) at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, treated its first breast cancer patient using the IceSense3 cryoablation system in a pilot study evaluating ...
Capgemini, a provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has announced a partnership with MammaCare, the recognized quality-standard for physical examination of the breast. MammaCare was developed with the support of the ...
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US-based Quanterix has launched multiplexed single molecule immunoassay technology for improving diagnosis and potential treatment of complex diseases. The multiplexed single molecule immunoassays study, which was partly funded by the ...
Castle Biosciences has announced that data from studies of its DecisionDx-Melanoma test confirm previous studies, indicating that the gene expression profile test is a strong predictor for classifying which Stage I or II non-metastatic ...
Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI), a cancer-care network in Washington, US, has acquired four Elekta's Versa HD systems. Versa HD is a radiation treatment system that is intended for cancer management and treat a wide range of tumors in ...
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of patent allowance for DelMar Pharmaceuticals’ first-in-class small-molecule chemotherapeutic VAL-083. The patent covers the methods for synthesizing VAL-083, which is ...
Saks Fifth Avenue and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) announced that actress Jennifer Aniston has been named the EIF ambassador for Saks Fifth Avenue’s 2013 Key to the Cure campaign. In the 14 years since the inception of ...
While the biggest charity "thons" were flat or slightly down in 2012, most dedicated to cycling saw healthy increases.? "When we look at the results, the really strong results are in the cycling area," said David Hessekiel, president of ...
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Proton therapy systems developer Mevion Medical has delivered the superconducting synchrocyclotron accelerator for its Mevion S250, which is presently under installation at the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of ...
We are often asked if there have been any studies done on animals regarding cooked vs. raw pet food diets. Here are a couple of very interesting ones. Dr. Francis M. Pottenger had some very revealing results on a study he did between the ...
Sue Desmond-Hellmann follows in Sheryl Sandberg’s footsteps and joins the board of Facebook. Sue Desmond-Hellman is currently the Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco and also services on the board of directors ...
IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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Applying the same technologies used for voice recognition and credit card fraud detection to medical treatments could cut healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes by almost 50%, according to new research. The research by Indiana ...
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MolecularMD has obtained an exclusive license to LKB1 for diagnostic, prognostic and predictive uses in non-small cell lung cancer patients. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of North ...
Epic Sciences, a developer of diagnostic tests, has received a Phase II small business innovation research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of a lung ...
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