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Wardray Premise has improved its XRC100 x-ray chair while maintaining the 2018 price. Designed and manufactured in the UK, the latest product improvement is a change from a hydraulic to a battery-operated electric lifting column. This removes the manual effort involved with adjusting the height of the chair seat. It comes with a handset/controller, a […]

Radboud University Medical Centre (UMC) in the Netherlands has been working with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Tanzania for a number of years, offering support and education. Clinicians from the UMC department of anaesthesia have been developing the provision of anaesthesia at KCMC, as well as a programme to teach staff about its […]

At the recent European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) meeting in Budapest, ScreenPoint Medical launched its medical education programme with a series of workshops entitled ‘The Transpara experience: multi-vendor, evidence-based breast artificial intelligence for mammography.’ Transpara is an AI solution for breast cancer screening that uses deep learning algorithms to automatically detect lesions in 2D […]

When the team at Glangwili General Hospital, Carmarthen, was looking to replace its emergency x-ray room, patient throughput, ease of use and image quality were primary requirements. Staff looked at the equipment on offer from various manufacturers before choosing the Samsung GC85 DR suite as the unit that would deliver on requirements. Site lead superintendent […]

Fujifilm UK is teaming up with charity CoppaFeel! to help raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of breast cancer. Over the next year, Fujifilm will work with the charity on a number of projects to help in its mission to educate the public on the signs and symptoms of breast cancer, encourage regular self-checking […]

Pictured during a visit to the RAD Magazine office is the Stroke Association’s community and events fundraising manager George Burroughs with the magazine’s Katherine Powell, Mechel Rees and Sue Wallbank. Burroughs was presented with a cheque for £6,000, the profit from this year’s RAD Magazine Foundation Charity Golf Day, which took place in July at […]

Senior leaders from the health technology industry, the regional enterprise partnership, the NHS, local authorities and five universities have formed a partnership to accelerate health technology innovation for the Leeds City Region. Partners have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive new approaches to improving patient and population health and care through better and […]

The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough has installed a C-RAD Catalyst HD optical patient monitoring system in its radiotherapy department. Pictured during applications training are C-RAD applications specialists Beatrice Akrinrimisi and Peter Hundlinger with James Cook medical physics expert Andrew Greenhalgh, Vertec Scientific product specialist Michael Davis, therapeutic radiographer Sophie Burns, student therapeutic radiographer […]