News : osteoporosis screening

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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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...

Research study shows that simple hand X-rays can predict painful and expensive h...

11/21/2012 3:00 AM EST - SECTRA

A research team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has conducted a study that shows how Sectra’s online service, Sectra OneScreen, provides an efficient and inexpensive method for early identification of people in the “at-risk group” for osteoporosis. Sectra OneScreen can be combined with routine mammography examinations. The study, published in European Radiology, shows that Sectra OneScreen is fully...

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...

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...

Mammography clinic takes up the fight against osteoporosis - combining low dos...

10/21/2010 3:15 AM EST - SECTRA

Sectra announces an agreement with Aspen Healthcare Ltd for use of Sectra’s unique solution for mammography and osteoporosis screening at Holly House Hospital. The hospital is the first in the UK to give women the opportunity of better quality of life by offering osteoporosis detection and mammography in a single examination. This is an initiative that will also drastically...