Siemens Healthineers’ Atellica VTLi Patient-Side Immunoassay Analyser receives CE mark

Siemens Healthineers’ Atellica VTLi Patient-Side Immunoassay Analyser2 has obtained CE mark and is expected to be available later this spring. The Atellica VTLi analyser provides high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) test results to clinicians in eight minutes using a patient’s fingerstick blood sample. With this industry first technology, Siemens Healthineers is helping to improve the […]

Philips SmartCT 3D image acquisition for Azurion system gets FDA clearance

Royal Philips, has received U.S. FDA 510 (k) clearance for its Philips SmartCT application software. SmartCT is a key component of Philips Image Guided Therapy System – Azurion – providing interventionalists with CT-like 3D images (Cone Beam CT) to support diagnosis, therapy planning, treatment and follow-up for interventional radiology procedures.

Double Black Imaging unveils Gemini 12MP display

Westminter, Colorado-based Double Black Imaging (DBI) has launched their Gemini 12MP, which is designed to enhance multi-modality workflow for breast imaging and PACS. The Gemini 12MP is bundled with a high-speed graphic controller to optimize Tomo image processing, along with DBI’s comprehensive calibration software suite.

Carestream launches Lux 35 Detector, glass-free cesium detector for medical imaging

Carestream Health has launched its first cesium glass-free medical detector. The Carestream Lux 35 Detector is a lightweight, glass-free wireless detector ergonomically designed with the comfort of patients and radiographers in mind. The cesium detector offers superb resolution, better detail and a reduced exposure dose as compared to gadolinium detectors.

We need a people’s vaccine

As vaccine nationalism and inequitable distribution continue to plague the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, epidemiologists from leading academic institutes around world have issued a stark warning that so-called ‘variants of concern’ to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could render current vaccines ineffective in less than a year. Callan Emery reports.

SARS-CoV-2 variants

Since the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in January 2020, thousands of variants have been reported, the vast majority of which have not raised alarm from virologists and public health officials. However, three variants have arisen in the past few months that are cause for concern and have been designated Variants of Concern […]

DEBx Medical receives CE Mark for Debrichem, a novel gel for chronic wound healing

DEBx Medical, the Dutch medical technology company revolutionizing the management of chronic wounds, has successfully completed the CE conformity assessment procedure for Debrichem – a disruptive and innovative topical agent for surgical debridement and an altnerative to the current standard of care.

COVID vaccines: Rich countries have bought more than they need – here’s how they could be redistributed

By Robin Cohen Emeritus Professor, Development Studies, University of Oxford

SARS-CoV-2 variants from mink can reinfect humans and evade inhibition by antibodies

It has been known for about a year that minks can become infected with SARSCoV- 2. The virus had been transmitted from humans to farmed mink and mutated in infected animals. Mutations were acquired in the spike protein, which is crucial for the entry of the virus into host cells and represents the central point […]

More than one in ten patients with lung cancer do not know what type they have

Call for more medical translators at increasingly cosmopolitan clinics