News : screening

Madison, Wis – (November 15, 2011) Quincy Bioscience, manufacturer of the award-winning memory supplement Prevagen, is pleased to announce, on National Memory Screening Day, an assessment is now available online at www.prevagen.com/memoryscreening/ for people who are interested in testing their memory.

National Memory Screening Day is an initiative of the Alzheimer’s...

Luxembourg has invested in two additional digital Sectra MicroDose Mammography systems for their breast screening program. With this investment even more women in Luxembourg will benefit from mammography examinations with the lowest radiation dose on the market.
Three hospitals in Luxembourg made their first investments in Sectra’s unique, photon...

The first clinical results from a research project focused on spectral (color) mammography shows promising diagnostic benefits for breast cancer. Published in the February issue of Radiology, the results will be presented at a symposium dedicated to breast cancer detection and ways of improving cancer detection with photon counting...
Single shot spectral imaging is enabled using Sectra’s unique photon counting...

Diamyd Medical has completed the screening of patients for the US Phase III study, DiaPrevent, ending the recruitment campaign. More than 310 recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients between 10 and 20 years of age have already been enrolled in the study and have received their first injection of the antigen-based therapy Diamyd® or placebo.
"We expect to reach the enrollment target of 320 patients in the...

Today, a private mammography clinic in Germany, Gemeinschaftspraxis für Diagnostische Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, launched the first German mobile screening unit equipped with Sectra MicroDose Mammography. Following this launch, Sectra’s mobile MicroDose solution is now in use in five countries.
The distance and time required to reach a fixed center is one of the obstacles women face when attending a...