ST. JOHN’S, NL – Eastern Health announced that it has installed state-of-the-art digital radiography units at its hospitals in both Burin and Clarenville. The province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Eastern Health specifically, are the first in Canada to receive these next-generation digital radiography units from GE Healthcare, which represent a significant step forward in X-ray technology.
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LANGLEY, B.C. – The B.C. Surgical and Diagnostic Imaging Strategy continues to make progress as construction begins on Langley Memorial Hospital’s first MRI machine. Patients in Langley and across the region will benefit from increased access to MRI exams and shorter wait times when the first-ever MRI for Langley Memorial Hospital opens mid-summer 2020.
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OTTAWA – Navdeep Bains (pictured), Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, announced an investment of $49 million in the Industry Consortium for Image-Guided Therapy (ICIGT), a pan-Canadian network led by the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
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WINNIPEG – Patients in Winnipeg are waiting more than a year for a diagnostic heart test that patients in major cities in Saskatchewan and Ontario can get in weeks. The wait list for elective echocardiograms – a heart ultrasound used to detect disease and defects – has ballooned to over 7,000 patients in Winnipeg, with the wait time pegged at an average of 66 weeks between the city’s two major hospitals.
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MONTREAL – MEDTEQ, a supporter of Canadian health-technology innovators, has announced an investment in eight companies who are building next-generation healthcare products.
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TORONTO and SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Bialogics Analytics, Inc. and Paragon Consulting Partners, LLC (PCP Imaging) are pleased to announce a new program that combines Bialogics’ advanced diagnostic imaging data analytics platform with PCP Imaging’s clinical workflow and data analysis expertise.
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HEIDELBURG, Germany – A novel class of radiopharmaceuticals has proven effective in non-invasively identifying nearly 30 types of malignant tumors, according to research published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Using 68Ga-FAPI positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), researchers were able to image a wide variety of tumors with very high uptake and image contrast, paving the way for new applications in tumor characterization, staging and therapy.
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TORONTO – MEDEC, the association representing Canada’s medical technology companies, is pleased to announce that it has rebranded to become Medtech Canada. This new brand identity reflects the ever-evolving nature of the medical technology industry, which is contributing to enabling the digitization of healthcare, providing more connected care and providing opportunities for more patient-centred care in community settings.
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MARKHAM, Ont. – Ultrasound is an easy-to-access test for patients in Canada and the United States. Not so in much of the developing world, such as rural Uganda. But a Canadian physician is now using portable ultrasound to deliver U/S exams to patients in remote areas of Uganda, spotting life-threatening illnesses like pneumonia, the number one killer of children under the age of five.
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MONTREAL – Thought Technology is pleased to announce a joint distribution agreement with Evoke Neuroscience for its eVox System, a medical device that enables primary and specialty care physicians to assess brain function in-office and use the results to aid in making a clinical diagnosis.
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