Global Partners Join Forces to Speed Development of New TB Drug Combinations

FDA applauds effort to take years off development of much needed TB treatments

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2010 – Ahead of World TB Day, US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Margaret Hamburg helped public and private sector partners launch a new
collaboration to significantly accelerate the development of combination
treatments for tuberculosis – and replace an almost 50-year-old drug [...]

Denmark’s Odense University Hospital Works To Make Elekta VMAT Its Mainstream Radiation Therapy Technique

Faster arc-based method could help increase the number of patient treatments per day

ODENSE, Denmark, March 18, 2010 – Odense University Hospital (OUH, Odense, Denmark), a major
multi-specialty medical center serving southern Denmark, joined the global
community of Elekta VMAT
(www.elekta.com/healthcare_international_elekta_vmat.php) clinical
sites last fall when it began treating patients with the arc-based technique.
With Elekta VMAT, single or multiple [...]