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Agfa HealthCare - Full Year 2013

Adverse currency effects had a strong impact on Agfa HealthCare's top line in 2013. Excluding these effects, revenue decline would be limited to 1.1 percent. In the IT segment, both Imaging IT and Enterprise IT performed well. The business group's revenue decline is attributable to the Imaging segment's traditional X-ray film business. It should be mentioned that in 2012, the traditional business was marked by a strong recovery following slow sales in 2011.

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Phantom Limb Pain Relieved with Augmented Reality

Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital has developed a new method for the treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) after an amputation. The method is based on a unique combination of several technologies, and has been initially tested on a patient who has suffered from severe phantom limb pain for 48 years. A case study shows a drastic reduction of pain.

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Tunstall wins Hanover Housing Association Tender for Alarm Call and Door Entry Framework

Hanover Housing Association has entered into a new long term alarm call and door entry framework agreement with Tunstall Healthcare, the leading provider of telehealth and telecare solutions, to help deliver consistency across Hanover's UK property portfolio, ensuring sustainability, value for money and innovation.

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3 Research Projects that Led to High-Tech Spin-Offs

Today the European Women Innovator Award was awarded to Ana Maiques @ana_maiques. Ms Maiques said: "To be a top innovator, you have to be able to do cutting edge science - but also take it to market." This is exactly what she has done with her spin-off company Neuroelectrics @Neuroelectrics which develops revolutionary brain devices.

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New Radiology Developments from Siemens

Using the motto "Answers for Life," Siemens Healthcare is launching a package of new developments for imaging and IT at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. Chief among these are improved diagnostic accuracy, faster examinations and a high level of flexibility.

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Tunstall Healthcare and Qualcomm Collaborate for Global Deployment of Innovative Connected Care Services

Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), and Tunstall Healthcare, one of the leading providers of technology enabled care services, announced its collaboration to facilitate the cost effective global deployment of Tunstall's care provisions leveraging Qualcomm Life's 2net™ Platform.

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Philips Leaps to Number 3 Global Position of Patent Applicants at the European Patent Office

Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that the company is the number 3 patent applicant in the world for patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). With a total number of 1839 patent applications filed at the EPO in 2013, Philips has shown a strong growth of 59% compared to 2012, when it held the 12th position in the EPO's yearly patent applicant ranking.

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Detecting Software Errors via Genetic Algorithms

According to a current study from the University of Cambridge, software developers are spending about the half of their time on detecting errors and resolving them. Projected onto the global software industry, according to the study, this would amount to a bill of about 312 billion US dollars every year. "Of course, automated testing is cheaper", explains Andreas Zeller, professor of Software Engineering at Saarland University, as you could run a program a thousand times without incurring any charges. "But where do these necessary test cases come from?" asks Zeller. "Generating them automatically is tough, but thinking of them yourself is even tougher."

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UZ Leuven, Belgium, Selects Agfa HealthCare's Mobile Wireless DR Solution

Agfa HealthCare announces that the pediatric radiology department of University Hospitals Leuven (UZ Leuven) in Belgium has chosen to install a mobile DX-D 100 direct radiography (DR) solution with DX-D 35C digital wireless detector for its neonatal intensive care unit (ICU).

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New Therapy Helps to Improve Audio and Visual Perception in Stroke Patients

A stroke can cause permanent damage to important parts of the brain, with the result that many stroke survivors require lifelong care and support. "It is not uncommon for stroke patients to suffer from an awareness deficit or a reduced response to stimuli on one side of their body. This condition, known as hemispatial neglect, can mean that patients are unable to properly perceive people, images or sounds on that side," explains Professor Georg Kerkhoff from the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at Saarland University.

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