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Hospital Management Asia announces conference in Wuxi, China

Hospital Management Asia (HMA), the region’s leading thought leadership platform for senior-level decision makers in hospitals and the healthcare industry, has announced an inaugural China-focused conference in Wuxi, China from July 18-20, 2018 leading up to the flagship HMA...

NYU Langone’s Center for Stroke & Neurovascular Diseases Launches as Destination for Complex Care

To help address the complex needs of patients with stroke and other conditions affecting blood vessels in the brain and spinal cord, NYU Langone Health has launched the Center for Stroke and Neurovascular Diseases, a state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary program with...

Bone Scan Software Accurately Calculates Prognosis of Advanced Prostate Cancer

A software tool to automatically calculate how extensively bones have been infiltrated by prostate cancer is both accurate and speedy, capturing key prognostic information related to survival and the development of symptoms over time. The software, called the automated bone...

World Hypertension Day: Blood pressure screening could prevent millions of premature deaths each year

The chief cardiologist at the United States’ top-ranked heart hospital has praised a campaign to ensure fair access to blood pressure testing, saying it could prevent millions of premature deaths every year. May 17th is World Hypertension Day, and in...

New biomarker identified for early diagnosis of lung cancer

High levels of cytoskeleton-associated protein 4 (CKAP4) have been identified in the blood of patients with lung cancer. In a novel study in The American Journal of Pathology investigators found that CKAP4 levels were significantly higher in patients with...

Kicking Surgery to the Curb: A Non-Invasive Innovation in Radiation Oncology

We all know that the statistics for skin cancer are staggering: the diagnosis and treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in the U.S. increased by 77 percent between 1994 and 2014, and about 90 percent of NMSCis associated with...

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