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Article • Going digital

Time to speed up adoption of digital pathology

Early adoption of image analytical tools and artificial intelligence are crucial if health systems across Europe are to see the full potential of digital pathology, according to a leading expert. While a growing number of European institutions are beginning to embrace digital pathology, Professor Johan Lundin remains concerned about the slow pace of progress. He acknowledges that more…

News • NanoZoomer S360

Hamamatsu introduces new WSI Scanner

Hamamatsu Photonics introduces the NanoZoomer S360, a new high throughput Whole Slide Imaging scanner, engineered using Hamamatsu Photonics’ extensive experience of imaging technology and designed…

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Article • Digital Pathology

Deep Blue meets Hematoxilin and Eosin

In the nineties Deep Blue, the famous chess computer, defeated Kasparow. Only a year ago Google’s Deepmind managed to master the ancient Chinese Go, known for its utmost complexity.

Article • Computational pathology

The tipping point for digital pathology

Digital pathology has been the next big thing for about a decade. Yet, today only a few pathology laboratories are fully equipped to digitise their workflow, mainly for legal or financial reasons.

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Article • Dutch pathology platform

Augmenting pathology image exchange

A national pathology image exchange platform for The Netherlands is expected to be in place and operational within the next 12 months.

Article • Digital Pathology

Europe’s most advanced histopathology unit

Among the earliest centres to embrace the concept of digital pathology, the Leeds Digital Pathology Project began in 2003 thanks to a Department of Health grant. Today the centre is Europe’s…

Article • Digital pathology

Boosting diagnostic accuracy and efficiency

Certain members of Generation Y, who grew up alongside enormous information technology (IT) advances, now occupy decision-making roles. Meanwhile, generation Z is emerging into the continuing IT…

Article • Denmark

Successful digital pathology

Advanced computer software underpins a service - coupled with a countrywide database, which enables Denmark’s pathologists to optimise the assessment of patients’ specimens.In turn, the…

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Article • Moving on

I saw the future of pathology – and it’s digital

Healthcare is going digital. No doubt about it, Prof. Hufnagl predicts. Information and communication technologies have gone beyond moving data from one place to the other; they are triggering…

Article • Overcoming barriers

Scaling the barriers to precise diagnoses

Whilst digital pathology has the potential to deliver more precise diagnostics, there remain a number of barriers to its widespread implementation.

Article • Strategies

Three-step process for digital pathology

As laboratories in Europe shift to systems for digital pathology, they must ensure the technology not only works, but works for them, says Dr Liron Pantanowitz, director of pathology informatics at…

Article • Digitisation

Pathology departs from a dark back room

A UK-based neuropathologist has highlighted how the digitisation of pathology will play a pivotal role in taking patient care on to a new and more efficient level. Speaking in a recent Webinar under…

Article • Microarrays

Taking biomarker research to a new level

Harnessing the potential of digital pathology is taking research into new and more efficient biomarkers to a new level. By combining strategic planning with the latest digital pathology technology,…

Diagnostic imaging

Radiology, sonography and beyond: Keep reading to find out how imaging techniques like MRI, CT and ultrasound can be used in the diagnosis of diseases and the guidance of medical procedures.

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News • Prophylactic post-treatment

MRI surveillance after SCLC helps patients avoid brain irradiation

After treatment for small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), patients often undergo prophylactic radiotherapy to prevent metastases in the brain. Now, a new study shows that MRI surveillance alone is enough,…

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Article • From geometric phantoms to clinically predictive testing

The evolving role of phantom-based QA in medical imaging

Conventional phantoms for medical imaging deliver reproducible but clinically simplistic benchmarks – as AI becomes embedded in radiology workflows, that is no longer enough. Anatomically realistic…

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News • FAP-targeted imaging

PET/MRI shows promise in endometriosis detection

A new study shows how FAPI PET/MRI can help detect the extent of tissue remodeling and fibrosis from endometriosis. This could improve diagnosis of the condition, even in difficult-to-assess areas.

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Laboratory/pathology

From clinical chemistry to digital pathology: Read more about how modern medical laboratories and procedures in pathology play a vital role in the detection and prevention of diseases and in medical research.

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News • Impact on healthy tissues uncovered

Study explores cost of childhood chemotherapy

For many childhood cancers, chemotherapy is the only treatment option. A study explores the trade-off between life-saving treatment at a young age, and delayed side effects unfolding over a lifetime.

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Article • Enterprise imaging

From slides to PACS: A blueprint for digital pathology integration

Michigan Medicine became the first US healthcare system to launch a DICOM-based digital pathology PACS integrated with its radiology PACS and enterprise imaging network. At SIIM 2026, the annual…

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Treatment

Medical innovations are rapidly expanding therapy options for many diseases. Keep reading to find more information on new therapies, surgical techniques, effective medication and patient care.

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News • Promising treatment synergies

Pancreatic cancer radiotherapy could also boost immunotherapy

Radiotherapy may be able to do far more than simply destroy tumor cells. A review explores how combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy could improve outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer.

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News • Dyspnea treatment approach

Is laughter the best medicine? For COPD, it might at least help

Deliberate laughter therapy offers an effective low-cost complementary treatment to help patients with COPD reduce breathing difficulties at home without specialist support, new research finds.

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News • Immunotherapy first, surgery afterwards

Glioblastoma: treatment sequence matters

In glioblastoma, the treatment order matters: a new study shows that administering cell immunotherapy before surgery to remove a brain tumour is significantly more effective than the other way around.

Management

Time to bring out the white collars: Read more about the economy and politics of health as well as optimised hospital and patient management.

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News • 10 years without a single case

"Farvel", congenital syphilis: how Denmark eliminated mother-to-child transmission

Congenital syphilis is on the rise across Europe, nearly doubling in a single year. Yet Denmark has marked a full decade without a single case. How one country managed what many others haven't.

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News • Medical professionals after the referendum

How Brexit transformed the UK health care workforce

Decreased health care worker migration, worsening physician shortages: Brexit – the UK's vote to leave the EU – has profoundly impacted the English healthcare system, a new study finds.

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News • Digital transformation

“From bricks to clicks”? Experts flag risk of patient harm from NHS 10 Year Health Plan

The NHS 10 Year Health Plan goes all-in on digital transformation. But experts warn that widespread lack of safety documentation could lead to “patient harm at an unprecedented scale”.

IT/Tech

From AI-based image analysis to virtual therapies: Find out how digitalisation and cutting-edge IT solutions advance the medical landscape.

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Article • Digital Health

Insulin infusions: calculating the safety check

Manually calculating intravenous insulin infusion rates is a time-consuming, error-prone process. A Turkish hospital addresses these issues with bedside software built in-house by a clinician who saw…

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News • Interventional oncology

AI segmentation and robotic guidance showcased at CIRSE 2026

At CIRSE 2026, Precision IO presents Smart Seg AI for liver tumour segmentation and a new integration with GE HealthCare's Allia Moveo system for its Epione platform.

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News • Machine learning tool beats current screening

Advancing hip fracture prediction with AI

An AI tool built from Swedish national health registry data can predict hip fracture risk, and identify more at-risk individuals than current clinical screening practices, according to a new study.

Research

When scientific curiosity paves the way for improved healthcare: Read more about promising studies and trials that lead to more effective drugs, procedures as well as medical guidelines.

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News • Collagen-targeted protein CA

New MRI agent to earlier detect lung cancer, hidden metastases

A research team has developed a new class of protein-based MRI contrast agent that detects invasive lung cancer and metastatic disease at earlier stages than conventional imaging approaches.

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News • Environmental exposure

Researchers explore link between microplastics and lung cancer

People with lung cancer are more likely to have microplastics in their lungs and to have larger quantities of microplastics in their lungs, according to new research.

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News • Study challenges long-held assumptions

C. diff: not so harmless for the infant gut

Clostridioides difficile does not cause symptoms in infants – but that does not mean the bacteria are harmless: research links colonization to serious long-term consequences for the developing gut.

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