Western Australia’s medical innovation and research capabilities have received an infusion of support with $2.5 million from Lotterywest. The funds will go toward Western Australia’s National Imaging Facility Node to fund key equipment including state-of-the-art MRI...
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Modernizing & Digitizing Cancer Trial Image Analysis: University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center ‘TRAC’
The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has created a solution to modernize, digitize and scale up the analyses of patient response during cancer trials: a tumor response assessment core or “TRAC,” an innovative approach to analyzing the medical scans of...
NHS Bosses in UK Accused of Breaking Laws in Cancer Scanning Privatization
The Guardian reports NHS bosses put patients at risk with “flagrant lawbreaking and intimidating a leading hospital trust over their controversial privatization of cancer scanning services.” Apparently Oxfordshire councilors are sounding the alarm that patients will...
NHS England Gets Aggressive in Move to Privatize PET-CT Scanning Services
The Guardian reports a well-known English hospital, Oxford University Hospital Trust, has faced threats and intimidation by NHS England for seeking to publicly challenge a privatization of PET-CT scanning services to a private firm. Oxford University Hospital...