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High-speed communications and healthcare – Tele-ICUs and ambulance telemedicine

The communications revolution has opened up dramatic possibilities for healthcare delivery across physical/geographical boundaries. Telemedicine, once held up as a miracle, and then seemingly forgotten, has been making a comeback in one of the most challenging frontiers of modern medicine – the ICU. High-speed communications have also paved the way for ambulance-based telemedicine. ICU TelemedicineVideo […]

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Probing the image quality and dose of thorax X-rays

A 354-patient study on image quality and dose values for thorax images with the DX-D 300 digital radiography system and MUSICA 3 software was carried out at the Institute of Imaging Diagnostics and Therapy (BDI) in Erlangen.  Dr. Karina Hofmann-Preiss, summarizes here the details and findings of the study. Agfa HealthCare

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Cardiovascular risk assessment – new tools and imaging techniques

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of death and disability across the world. In recent decades, the battle against CVD has focused on prevention, with the management of lifetime cardiovascular (CV) risk superseding treatment of individual cardiovascular (CV) risk factors. Such a strategy in turn is anchored in two complementary approaches – a population-based […]

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US breast cancer guidelines revised – reportedly closer now to Europe but questions remain

Recently revised breast cancer screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society (ACS) share some parallels with practices in Europe and are similar to recommendations from other organizations. They have however generated a considerable amount of debate and controversy in the US. First ACS revisions since 2013The revised guidelines are the first from the ACS since […]

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Are we really ready for the next pandemic?

Pandemics – derived from the Greek pandemos (affecting all people) – are not new events, but have occurred sporadically throughout history. These large, infectious epidemics threaten not only global health but can also have catastrophic social, economic and financial effects. Given the periodic nature of pandemics, we know there will be another one sometime, we […]