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Siemens Healthcare is providing a range of tools and advanced technology to help tackle the perception that cardiac MR is complex and unattainable for widespread use. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK, or around 160,000 deaths each year1. A range of innovative MR systems, clinical software applications and imaging coils ensure the most difficult cardiac MR examinations can be simplified, providing more clinicians with the ability to image cardiac patients rapidly and efficiently.

Siemens Healthcare has launched a range of new online resources to support teachers with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The new materials also support lesson workshops for personal, social and health education (PSHE) curricula.

Since the beginning of 2014, big-hearted staff at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery in Lincoln have Walked the Walk, gone the extra mile, and had their cake and eaten it, all in the name of charity.

Families, train enthusiasts and rail users are invited to visit the Siemens Heathrow Express traincare facility for free on Saturday 26 September, as part of London Transport Museum Depot Open Weekend.

Chippenham-based Siemens Rail Automation has recruited 18 graduates who will now embark on the company’s two-year training programme.

Siemens has appointed rail industry heavyweight Philip (Phil) Heathcote to the position of Sales Director of its Rail Systems business in the UK, effective from 31 August 2015.

Siemens today (September 7) announced the award of a key contract to Hull College Group involving the development of a “best in class” facility to train workers for the company’s new wind turbine blade factory in Hull.

Following the successful completion of the final stage of signalling work by Siemens, Norway’s metro transport infrastructure owner, Sporveien Oslo AS, has now commissioned into full service all four sheds for the new Avløs rail depot for Oslo’s Kolsåsbanen. These commissionings marked the final phase of the 10-year Kolsåsbane project, which has delivered new metro rail infrastructure from the centre of Oslo out to Kolsås station in the city’s western suburbs.

Thousands of job-seekers will have the opportunity to find out firsthand about working with Siemens in Hull at a series of careers events.

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and Crossrail Chair Terry Morgan CBE visit new rail training academy

An 80-strong group of rail industry professionals, more used to bogies than bicycles, turned to a different mode of transport for a four-day (from 14 – 17 August) gruelling cycle ride to raise funds for charity. Covering nearly 300 miles, from Germany to the UK, the ride celebrated the successful project partnership that has led to the delivery of the first new Class 700 train set to run on the Thameslink routes.

Following a recent focus on research of the management of pulmonary nodules for lung cancer screening, the British Thoracic Society (BTS) 1 has developed evidence-based algorithms and recommendations for the investigation of nodules when using imaging techniques. These are expected to lead to a more efficient use of resources and consistent outcomes for lung cancer patients. Siemens Healthcare is also pleased to announce its syngo®.via MM Oncology software solution has been fully future-proofed to ensure ease of compliance with key areas of the BTS guidelines.