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• North American Scientific Announces First ClearPath™-HDR Clinical Experience

  - 2007-09-28

  Dr. Rakesh Patel Treats First ClearPath-HDR Patient at the University of Wisconsin CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- North American Scientific, Inc. (Nasdaq:NASI) today announced that its ClearPath-HDR device has been used in a patient for the first time. For use in Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation APBI treatment plans, ClearPath-HDR combines...

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• Top Cancer Groups Announce State Pain Policies Evaluation Results

  - 2007-07-17

  To: MEDICAL EDITORSContact: Jean Maza of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, +1-972-701- 2105, jmaza@komen.org; or Jennifer Long of The Lance Armstrong Foundation, +1-512-279-8391, jennifer.long@laf.org; or Alissa Havens of The American Cancer Society, +1-202-661-5772, alissa.havens@cancer.org; or Aaron Gilson, PhD of The University of Wisconsin's Pain and Policy Studies Group, +1-608-263-8448,...

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• When tech meets health: the growing field of health technology is helping form the backbone of medicine

  - 2006-11-01

  Get me the epinephrine, stat!" cries the fictional emergency room doctor as he plunges into another life-and-death drama on TV. Over the course of the next 60 minutes, the doctors race to save the lives of many patients. It's satisfying drama and riveting action. What you don't often see...

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• A probe-free colonoscopy?

  - 2004-09-07

  New studies about "virtual" colonoscopy suggest that the colon cancer screening technique, though not ready to replace the gold-standard conventional procedures, might someday be an effective alternative. In today's Annals of Internal Medicine , scientists report that the latest virtual screenings -- which create 3-D images of the colon...

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• University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Selects Canopy's Care Management Solution

  - 2002-11-05

  Business Editors, Health/Medical and High Tech Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 5, 2002 Canopy Systems, Inc.TM, a leader in providing Web-based solutions for care management, announced today that University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin has signed an agreement to implement Canopy's Web-based care management solution....

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• Madison, Wis., University Hospital Plans New Offices.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-04-14

  Apr. 12--Construction is expected to begin next month on a three-story, 64,000-square-foot building in University Research Park, on Whitney Way at the corner of Tokay Boulevard. Occupying the top two floors of the $5.9 million, brick-and-glass building will be administrative offices of the University...

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• University of Wisconsin's Laser Center Consolidates with TLC

  - 1998-04-20

  MISSISSAUGA, Ontario--BW HealthWire--April 20, 1998--TLC The Laser Center Inc. (TSE:LZR, NASDAQ:LZRCF) announced today its new association with the University of Wisconsin Medical School Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences. The UW Department of Ophthalmology, recently ranked among the top U.S. eye programs by U.S. News & World...

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