Deaconess Health System in the US chooses Sectra as its enterprise imaging vendor

International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra will install its enterprise imaging solution, for both radiology and cardiology, throughout Deaconess Health System.

Elekta Unity MR-linac featured in 11 abstracts at ASTRO 2018

Elekta announced that its Elekta Unity magnetic resonance radiation therapy system was featured in 11 abstracts at the American Society for Radiation Oncology Annual Meeting, which took place in Texas.

Life Healthcare has enlisted state-of-the-art robotics to help fight scourge of cancer

Life Healthcare has enlisted state of the art robotics to help fight the scourge of cancer. Life Kingsbury Hospital is the first Life Healthcare hospital to open its doors to the da Vinci X system, which aids surgeons...

Minimally invasive surgery associated with worse survival for women with cervical cancer compared to open hysterectomy

When comparing standard of care surgical options for women with early stage cervical cancer, two studies led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that minimally invasive...

Road to Cell Death More Clearly Identified for Parkinson's Disease

A pathway toward cellular death named for Thanatos identified by researchers as a key driver of nerve cell degradation in Parkinson's disease.Dopamine neurons are the primary cell type targeted by Parthanatos...

Specific CD8 T cell states may indicate response to immune checkpoint therapy for melanoma

A multi-institutional research team, led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has identified specific states of cytotoxic CD8 T cells that are associated...