April 13, 2012 — Novian Health, developer of Novilase Breast Therapy, announced it has begun a multicenter clinical trial on the use of Novilase Interstitial Laser Therapy (ILT) for the destruction of malignant breast tumors. The first facility to participate in the trial is the Rose Breast Center in Denver, under the study direction of Barbara Schwartzberg, M.D.

April 13, 2012 — The spiraling cost of silver is making medical films more and more obsolete, as new and more efficient medical imaging information systems (MIIS) continue to emerge, according to a new report by pharmaceutical and medical intelligence analysts GBI Research.

April 13, 2012 — Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center have successfully used nanotechnology to target a protein that plays a key role in atherosclerosis and inflammation, and say the study is an important advance toward using immunotherapy to simultaneously diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease.

April 12, 2012 — Several innovative cardiovascular and radiology technologies were featured in Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry (MD+DI) magazine’s April issue, which also announced the finalists in the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards (MDEA) competition.