While the war on breast cancer wages on, there are signs that doctors and patients may be on the winning side. Over the past year, we have seen significant advances in diagnosing and treating breast cancer. On the front line, tomosynthesis is in development and has been hailed by the medical community as a promising innovation in the early diagnosis of breast cancer.
September 17, 2009 - Inflation rates for healthcare supplies are projected to remain unchanged through 2010, according to an analysis released by the Premier healthcare alliance.
September 16, 2009 - iCAD Inc. will host a series of educational events designed for radiologists, urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgeons, technologists and other referring physicians who diagnose and treat patients with prostate cancer.
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September 16, 2009 – The Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) in Detroit, Mich., selected Apollo PACS Inc. (Apollo) as the vendor to implement its digital pathology informatics network.
September 17, 2009 - The Senate Finance Committee reduced the imaging utilization assumption rate from 90 percent to 65 percent, in essence cutting the originally proposed utilization increase by nearly two-thirds.
September 17, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. today announced the initiation of a Phase 1 clinical study to assess the safety, dosimetry and tolerability of LMI1195, a novel F-18 small molecule tracer for imaging cardiac neuronal function, in healthy subjects, undergoing positron emission tomography (PET) imaging.
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September 16, 2009 - Perceptive Informatics is offering medical imaging measurements for osteoarthritis clinical trials using Optasia's KneeAnalyzer software to supplement its existing medical imaging technology.
September 16, 2009 - BRIT Systems announced today the release of BRIT Vision Version 3.6, a multimodality workstation with a full-feature mammography module.
September 16, 2009 - Cancer patients in Australia have gained access to advanced RapidArc radiotherapy treatments from Varian Medical Systems with its introduction by the leading radiation oncology provider in Queensland.
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September 15, 2009 - Citrus Orthopaedics and Joint Institute in Lecanto, Fla., has selected Viztek Opal-ORTHO PACS and U-ARM digital radiography (DR) solutions to implement a conversion to full digital workflow.
September 15, 2009 - SonoSite Inc. introduced the NANOMAXX Ultrasound system at the annual scientific meeting of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) being held in Las Vegas September 14th - 18th, 2009.
September 15, 2009 - The Finance Committee in a health-overhaul bill calls for device makers to pay $40 billion in fees over 10 years, with the specific amount based on each company's market share.
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September 15, 2009 - Positron Corp. announced that the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care of Ontario, Canada is making positron emission tomography (PET) scanning a publicly insured health service available to cancer and cardiac patients under conditions where PET scans have been proven to be clinically effective.
September 15, 2009 – Elekta reported net sales increased by 15 percent, profit after taxes increased to SEK 56 million, and earnings per share after dilution were up to SEK 0.62 in the first three months of 2009/2010.
September 9, 2009 - Integrated backscatter (IBS) images were acquired with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and 3-dimensional image reconstruction to identify an increase in atrial degeneration that might predict the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) before left atrium (LA) dilation.
September 14, 2009 - IT and medical-technology company Sectra's net sales for the first quarter increased 13.7 percent to SEK 197.8 million (174.0) compared with the year-earlier period.
September 14, 2009 - Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) enables cardiac morphology with high and isotropic spatial resolution, according to a new study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Volume 54, No. 13. September 22, 2009.
September 14, 2009 – Adding a new ultrasound platform to its Women’s Imaging line of products, Siemens Healthcare introduces the ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system – Women’s Imaging at the 19th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG) in Hamburg, Germany.
September 11, 2009 - The University of Virginia Health System plans to open a new MR Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) Surgery Center, which will be the first facility in the world used exclusively for performing research and providing treatments with MRgFUS.
September 11, 2009 - Building on a successful distribution agreement established over the past three years, Merge Healthcare and Rosslyn Medical, a medical imaging solution provider serving the Russian market, have extended their partnership to expand the portfolio of Merge OEM products available to Rosslyn.
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