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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the heart allows making prognosis on heart attack

Doctors have always been struggling with the question whether their patients will get a heart attack in the near future. Magnetic resonance imaging of the heart might give them just that answer.

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Commission grants EUR 2.8 million to cancer camera project

A European consortium has received a EUR 2.8 million grant from the European Commission to develop a camera that can be ingested to obtain images of the digestive tract.

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Updated CORDIS service brings project partners together for FP7

With the launch of the new Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7), a revamped Partners Service addresses the specific needs of potential participants and other users of CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service.

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Siemens and Dräger are expanding their partnership

Dräger acquires 10 percent of Siemens AG shares in its Joint Venture Dräger Medical AG & Co. KG for a sales price of approximately 110 million EUR and increases its stake to 75 percent. At the same time, Siemens AG waves the sales option of its shares originally agreed in the Joint Venture contract and retains its 25 percent holding in the Dräger Medical Group.

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Innovative Siemens system provides new views of blood vessels, tissue, and organs

A new milestone on two levels: Siemens recently introduced the Axiom Artis dBA Twin biplanar radiography system, its latest imaging system for universal angiography and neuroradiology. Together with the new flat detector technology and syngo DynaCT software, the system delivers unique acquisitions thanks to its extremely high contrast and soft tissue differentiation.

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InterSystems Ensemble Ranked Number One For Interface Engines in KLAS 2006

InterSystems Corporation announced that its Ensemble rapid integration software ranked number one for interface engines in the survey of healthcare enterprises conducted annually by KLAS Enterprises LLC, a leader in healthcare technology research. The awards were announced in the 2006 Top 20: Year-End Best in KLAS Awards report.

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Call for experts for FP7 Challenge 5: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare

ICT for Health (eHealth) is looking for experts related to three objectives addressed by the call 1 & 2 for proposals (1- personal health systems; 2- patient safety; 3- biomedical informatics and modelling and simulation of physiology and disease related processes).

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European scientists to develop healthcare robot

IWARD targets mainly hospitals and healthcare centres to overcome the shortages of healthcare staff - a major issue in European healthcare. Our aging society and economic pressure increase the patients-to-medics' ratio, having an adverse effect on healthcare quality and performance. Not being able to attend all patients at the right time and not keeping the hospitals clean enough (e.g. MRSA Transmission) also increases recovery time and cost.

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Personal Health Systems 2007 Exhibition

A unique event and in special the Personal Health Systems 2007 Exhibition has been recently announced. It will be open to attendees of the Personal Health Systems 2007 Conference (12-13 February 2007, European Parliament, Brussels).

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Consumer Electronics Companies Move Into The Healthcare And Wellness Market

While the festive period has left some people overweight, the consumer electronics market is now looking rather thin. However, according to a report by Cambridge UK analysts Wireless Healthcare, some consumer electronics companies are exploiting the growing demand for devices and services that help people remain trim, fit and mentally alert.

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