Varian is acquiring assets of Atlanta-headquartered cancer clinic software company, Velocity Medical Solution, including imaging data aggregation software to improve long-term radiation therapy patient management, Varian announced March 12.

A partnership between Hitachi and Hokkaido University in Tokyo has led to the first molecular tumor-tracking proton therapy system, Hitachi announced today.

The largest grant ever provided by the Alzheimer’s Association has been given to Reisa Sperling, MD, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, to fund its Longitudinal Evaluation of Amyloid Risk and Neurodegeneration study.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and MedImmune, the bioresearch development subsidiary of AstraZeneca, have entered into a collaborative effort to develop new cancer immunotherapies, MD Anderson announced yesterday.

Neuroendocrine tumor imaging just got a boost with both U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) orphan drug designation for gallium-68 DOTATATE, used in PET imaging of neuroendocrine cancer.

After waiting patiently for sodium F-18 fluoride PET/CT data to come out of the National Oncological PET Registry (NOPR), clinicians are now clear that that the scan benefits patients by changing their course of care, at the very least, 12 percent of the time, according to a review published March 10 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

The Johnson and Johnson Innovation Center is bankrolling a research project with San Francisco-based Alector to prove feasibility of a monoclonal antibody agent that homes in on and treats Alzheimer’s disease processes in the brain, Alector announced yesterday.

Wayne, NJ, March 12, 2014 – Konica Minolta Medical Imaging will showcase Primary Imaging Solutions ideal for orthopedic practices at the upcoming American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) 2014 Annual Meeting, March 12-15 in New Orleans.  Two newly released systems, ImagePilot Aero and SONIMAGE P3, will be introduced for the first time to orthopedic surgeons. The company will also highlight the ImagePilot Sigma, a complete solution for practices looking to convert to digital radiography. Konica Minolta is exhibiting in booth 2641 at AAOS 2014.