Last year when the facility shut down in Canada shutdown about 50,000 medical tests and procedures were canceled. This week Petten reactor in The Netherlands went down with technical problems. There are only 5 major facilities in the world that product Isotopes. A reactor in Belgium...
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on 09-01-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Other Items of Interest, Hospital, Cardiology, MRI, Cancer, Cancer Treatment, Nuclear Medicine, Parkinson's, Isotopes
This is hot stuff! Recently I had an in depth interview with Dr. Patrice Milos, Chief Scientific Officer at Helicos discussing genomics and where the future is going. Helicos has the software and the genomics machine, and wouldn't this be a nice addition to run on Surface. This...
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on 08-27-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Technology, Pharma/FDA News, Microsoft/Windows News, Hospital, Genomics, healthcare, microsoft, Surface, Cardiology, Touch Screen, HIMMS, Surface Technology, Helicos, Heart Transplant, MSDN, Scripps, Healthblog
The procedure is not yet available in the US, but clinical trials are in place. Her doctors told her that she had congestive heart failure and that she was too high a risk and that surgery was not an option. " The Impella is threaded through the widest artery in the leg, known as the femoral...