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Public hospital in France joins the fight against osteoporosis: French women to ...

5/14/2013 2:30 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Argenteuil, outside Paris in France, a prominent public hospital is now initiating a pilot project offering women to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis screening in a single examination.   The combined assessment of bone health is made possible by Sectra’s patented online service, Sectra OneScreen. Argenteuil is the first hospital in the...
Post-menopausal women comprise a risk group for...
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London Trust chooses Sectra Breast Imaging PACS to improve mammography services

4/12/2013 2:15 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust (BHRUT) in London has awarded the IT and medical technology company Sectra (STO: SECT B) a five-year contract to supply a breast imaging PACS. The investment will allow BHRUT to improve its services to the women participating in the Trust’s breast screening program.
The solution will facilitate fast and highly efficient reading of screening...
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Prominent mammography provider in Germany joins fight against osteoporosis

1/28/2013 2:40 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The German mammography provider Radiologie Hofheim is the first clinic in the national mammography screening program in Germany to offer women the opportunity of a health control with osteoporosis detection. The assessment of bone health is made possible by Sectra’s patented online service, Sectra OneScreen.
Post-menopausal women comprise a risk group for osteoporosis, one of the most painful and costly...

AMA Adopts New Policies at Annual Meeting

6/19/2012 2:35 PM EST  -   American Medical Association
CHICAGO – June 19, 2012 – The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, voted today during its annual policy-making meeting to adopt the following new policies:
SOLUTIONS FOR NATIONAL DRUG SHORTAGES: A drug shortage may compromise and delay treatments, leading to the progression of diseases, adverse outcomes or therapeutic failures. While this is a complex problem that will...

Private mammography provider in Switzerland joins the fight against osteoporosis

11/23/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Centre d’Imagerie de Morges, an imaging center in the canton of Vaud, is the first facility in Switzerland to offer women an opportunity to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis detection in a single examination. In this manner, women can examine their bone health and prevent fractures at an early stage, thereby avoiding unnecessary suffering and healthcare costs, and the center can give better...

Sectra launches support for breast tomosynthesis images in PACS

11/11/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
At RSNA 2011 in Chicago, Sectra will showcase support for the display and review of breast tomosynthesis images in Sectra Breast Imaging PACS.
Tomosynthesis is an emerging technology within breast imaging. Since most PACS do not support images of this type, a dedicated modality workstation is usually needed in order to read tomosynthesis images. With Sectra’s solution, mammography clinics will now be able to...

Sectra enters the Russian market with new partnership

6/22/2011 3:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
The Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectrahas signed a distribution agreement with McBrothers, a leading medical technology company based in St Petersburg, Russia.
McBrothers represents a number of internationally renowned manufacturers of a wide range of state-of-the-art medical equipment. Through this partnership, McBrothers becomes a distributor of Sectra’s medical systems in the western regions of...
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Major Norwegian private healthcare provider takes up fight against osteoporosis

6/21/2011 3:06 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Unilabs Norway AS in Oslo, a leading private healthcare provider, is now offering women the opportunity to combine their mammography examination with osteoporosis detection in a single examination using Sectra’s online service. In this way, women can examine their bone health and, at an early stage, prevent fractures by making lifestyle changes or having...
Using Sectra’s method, which is offered as an online...
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Sectra receives FDA clearance for MicroDose Mammography modality

5/4/2011 2:00 AM EST  -   SECTRA
First-of-its-kind technology enables women to benefit from significant reduction of radiation exposure Women in the US will now have the same opportunity as million of European women already have; to undergo mammography with significantly lower radiation dose. This is the result of FDA’s (Food and Drug Administration) clearance of the Swedish IT and medical technology company Sectra’s digital mammography system,...

Sectra MicroDose Mammography approved for sales in Russia

4/19/2011 2:40 AM EST  -   SECTRA
Healthcare providers in Russia can now offer women mammography with the market’s lowest radiation dose. This opportunity is a result of the Russian authorities’ approval of Sectra's digital mammography system, Sectra MicroDose Mammography[1].
With its 140 million inhabitants, Russia has around 6,000 hospitals and clinics. Half of these perform mammography today, and a very small number of them use digital...