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…

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.

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…

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.

News • Combined approach

Prostate cancer: PSMA PET/CT-targeted biopsy improves detection

A combined approach of two biopsy techniques involving PSMA PET/CT may help identify clinically significant prostate cancer that would otherwise be difficult to detect, according to new research.

News • Molecular imaging

CE mark cleared for new 'videography' PET/MR system

The uPMR Zenith PET/MR system from United Imaging has received CE marking. It aims to transform MR imaging from photography to videography.

News • Meta-analysis of mammography trials

Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening less common than previously thought

The extent of overdiagnosis has been one of the most debated issues in breast cancer screening for decades. Now, a new study suggests that it is less of a problem than previously thought.

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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.

News • Airway bacteria

Oral and lung microbiome differs drastically in long Covid patients

A study of more than 700 people has shown that those with long Covid have a distinctly different mix of bacteria – the microbiome – that live in their mouths and lungs.

News • Routine blood test

Haemoglobin count may suggest future dementia risk

A common blood test already carried out during routine health checks may contain clues about a person’s long-term risk of dementia, according to research presented at the ECNP Congress in Munich.

News • Study shows long-term benefits

Vaccination: protection beyond infection

Vaccination not only prevents disease caused by acute infection: it also protects against long-term immune-related consequences that can follow an acute viral infection, a new study finds.

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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.

News • Organ-preserving treatment

New radiotherapy approach to spare rectal cancer patients surgery and stoma

Novel radiotherapy may save increasingly many rectal cancer patients from surgery and stoma. Finland is at the forefront of implementing this novel treatment.

News • Gynaecologic oncology

Vulvar cancer: New surgical technique can restore the clitoris

Surgery for vulvar cancer can save lives, but also significantly affect a woman's sexual function and quality of life. Now, a new surgical technique makes it possible to restore the clitoris.

News • Radiation oncology trial

Tile-based radiation therapy to lower risk of recurrence in brain metastases

Using implanted collagen tiles during brain surgery, a new kind of radiation therapy (TBRT) could significantly lower the risk of recurrence in brain metastases, a new study finds.

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.

News • Sustainable implementation

How healthcare and the environment can benefit from 'Green' AI

AI has a transformative effect on healthcare – but what about the environmental cost? Will healthcare be picking up the bill later? A new paper explores sustainable options of AI implementation.

Article • Respiratory health in a warming world

How global warming turns the climate against the lungs

Heatwaves killing thousands of Europeans every summer, desert dust settling over cities that have never seen a desert, and floodwaters destroying entire valleys, leaving mouldy homes: The effects of…

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.

IT/Tech

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

News • Cardiovascular Health Data and AI Network

European initiative to accelerate AI uptake in cardiovascular care

AI offers major opportunities to improve heart health, however, current use is fragmented. A new project aims to turn the technology's promise into better cardiovascular care.

News • Vs. conventional knee replacements for arthritis

Robotic hip and knee surgery does not reduce risk of repeat surgery

Two major studies involving researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that robotic-assisted hip and knee replacement does not reduce the overall early risk of repeat surgery.

News • Emergency medicine

Cardiac arrest: Drones could speed up delivery of AEDs

Drones could be used to deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to where a person is suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to a study presented at the EUSEM Congress.

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.

News • Medical materials

Self-disinfecting fabric uses light to kill bacteria, fungi, viruses

A new self-disinfecting fabric uses visible light to eliminate bacteria, fungi and viruses in hospital settings. The manufacturing process could be easily implemented for hospital-use textiles.

News • Preventive transmission model

How C. diff spreads in a hospital oncology ward

Many cancer treatments leave their recipients immunocompromised and at greater risk of infection. A new transmission model aims to better prevent transmission in hospitals' oncology wards.

News • Current insights and research priorities

Atrial fibrillation during sepsis: what clinicians know (and what they don't)

A new review brings together the current evidence on sepsis-associated atrial fibrillation (SAAF) – and maps the research needed to close the gaps.

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