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St Helier Hospital Opts For Symbia T6
St Helier Hospital, part of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, has recently celebrated the installation of a Symbia® T6 TruePoint SPECTò€¢CT from Siemens Healthcare. The unit combines a 6-slice CT with variable angle dual detector SPECT for rapid, accurate attenuation correction and precise localisation.

Study Examines Efficacy Of Merck Drug On HIV Reservoirs
Patients who added Merck"s HIV drug Isentress to their regular daily HIV drug regimen "fared no better than those who added a placebo to the mix," as the drug failed to "reduce low-level reservoirs of HIV," in the body, according to findings presented at the International AIDS Society conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Bloomberg reports. As part of the 53-participant study led by Harvard University, researchers looked at patients whose viral loads were at undetectable levels and "were given either Isentress or a placebo for 12 weeks, then switched to the alternate agent for an additional 12 weeks. The study found no difference in low levels of the virus between the two groups, using a highly sensitive test," the article states. "The results are a setback for doctors looking for ways to seek and destroy the last vestiges of HIV, which aren"t reached by currently available drugs. Eliminating these so-called viral reservoirs may potentially cure patients, allowing them to stop taking daily medicines," according to Bloomberg (Pettypiece, 7/22).
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St Helier Hospital Opts For Symbia T6
St Helier Hospital, part of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, has recently celebrated the installation of a Symbia® T6 TruePoint SPECTò€¢CT from Siemens Healthcare. The unit combines a 6-slice CT with variable angle dual detector SPECT for rapid, accurate attenuation correction and precise localisation.
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A Selection Of Editorials And Opinions

Scrubbing In: Good Health Care Doesn"t Come Cheap The Philadelphia Inquirer A leaner medical system may not necessarily create a better one. Cost cuts have to be smart cuts, and should not harm patients the way rationing test strips does (Rachel Sobel, 6/22). The Hard Part The New York Times Eventually the hard part arrives. For Barack Obama, it may have started last week, courtesy of the abacus-wielding wonks at the Congressional Budget Office (Ross Douthat, 6/21). Health Care Showdown The New York Times Voters are ready for major change. The question now is whether we will nonetheless fail to get that change, because a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it"s 1993 (Paul Krugman, 6/22). Tired Malpractice Debate Ignores Promising Solutions USA Today Seldom can a president move an audience from applause to boos in a matter of seconds. But President Obama did it last week with three words: "fear of lawsuits" (Editorial, 6/22). Why We Will Win Back Health Care This Time Politico The fight is on. With the president definitively stepping into the ring and bills being introduced and the Congressional Budget Office weighing in, it"s clear that the legislative fight of the century has moved from the preliminaries to the official rounds (Richard Kirsch). Nation Needs To Leap Forward In Health IT The Tennessean Health care is one of the most information-intensive and technologically advanced fields of human endeavor (Jonathan Perlin, 6/22). Wyden"s Third Way The Wall Street Journal Is Mr. Wyden surprised by the opposition his proposal has generated from the left? (Collin Levy, 6/22). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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