| GE Healthcare Acquires Image Diagnost International GMBH
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced it has acquired Image Diagnost International GmbH, a provider of information technology (IT) systems used in the diagnosis of breast cancer. Image Diagnost's software offering will expand GE Healthcare's capabilities in breast cancer detection, offering clinicians and national screening services one of the most comprehensive ranges of systems available.
Image Diagnost develops integrated software solutions for mammography workflow and image processing. Digital mammography, first commercialized by GE Healthcare in 1999, brings significant benefits to the diagnosis of breast cancer such as improved cancer detection rates for women with dense breast tissue and ease of use. As the number of hospitals, clinics and screening services using digital mammography increases, there is a significant and growing demand for integrated software solutions to facilitate reporting, storage, sharing and transmission of mammography data.
Geriatrician Care Guards Against Risk of Inappropriate Meds
FRIDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly Americans taking prescription medications face a lower risk for being given an inappropriate drug or dosage if they receive care from a geriatrician, new research reveals. The finding is based on a large, national review of mostly male veterans who sought care at VA facilities across the United States. The analysis indicates that roughly one in four vets were inappropriately prescribed medications, while those few who had visited with a geriatrician in the past year had reduced exposure to such critical mistakes. "Geriatric care seems to help protect patients who are receiving prescription medications," said study author Mary Jo V. Pugh, a research health scientist with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, and an assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
University of Cumbria: Can it raise ambitions and boost the economy of ...
When the author, Margaret Forster, decided on a university, she chose Oxford where she headed with an open scholarship. Her husband, the writer Hunter Davies, who was also from Carlisle, picked Durham University. Another local luminary, the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg, also selected Oxford. None of them could have stayed at home, if they had wanted to, because until recently Cumbria had no university of its own. There was no higher education in the north westernmost corner of England beyond Lancaster, not even a college of higher education, though there was a teacher training college in Ambleside and an art college in Carlisle. This lack in what is a very large and beautiful county stretching from Lancashire in the south to Scotland in the north, and from the Irish Sea in the west to the Pennines in the east had a profound effect on the region.
Chan dethrones Buttle to become national champion
Patrick Chan made a stunning comeback to become the national men's champion after a strong freeskate program performance at the BMO Canadian Figure Skating Championships at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver on Saturday. At the end of his performance, the teenaged upstart received a standing ovation. Patrick Chan celebrates his first place win after skating in the senior men's free program at the Canadian Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver on Saturday. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) "The feeling of the crowd rising was phenomenal," said Chan, 17, who becomes the youngest Canadian men's champion. "I did not expect this. This whole season has been like a dream. I'm still in a trance right now. I guess that's the beginning of a feeling of a national champion." After defending Canadian champion Jeffrey Buttle skated a near flawless short program on Friday, Chan needed to improve on his own personal-best performance.
STREET HISTORY
Henry was an urban planner in Houston's Department of Planning & Development in the early 1960s when a co-worker suggested an unnamed street in northwest Houston be called Mary Lou. As quickly as that, Henry made Houston history. Henry, who now works for the consulting firm Vernon G. Henry and Associates, doesn't brag about her namesake street. Still, it's nice to be immortalized alongside John Henry Kirby and the Rev. T.C. Jester. Houston may be notorious for tearing down the old to build the new, but our street names give us a little history, as well as a sense of personal whimsy and changing times. So we have Travis, Austin, Lamar, Houston and Deaf Smith, named for Texas legends. MacGregor, Holcombe, Freeman and Fondren, named for local civic leaders.
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