January 11, 2010 - The board of directors of a hand-carried ultrasound manufacturer, SonoSite Inc., authorized the repurchase of up to $150 million of the company’s common stock or outstanding convertible notes for cash.

January 11, 2010 - Reirradiation using fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) after previous radiotherapy for head-and-neck cancer is feasible, concluded researchers a study published in the Official Journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

January 11, 2010 - The first ever masked and sham-controlled study designed to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of investigational stereotactic radiosurgical device for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is now underway at seven European sites.

January 11, 2010 - Interventional radiologists at Baptist Health Medical Center - Little Rock, Ark., recently became one of the first physicians in the U.S. to performed a technique, which uses an electric current instead of heat or freezing to permanently open cell membrane pores in the tumor, using irreversible electroporation (IRE). The IRE method does not require any chemotherapy.

January 8, 2010 – The implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) system at Twin County Regional Hospital (TCRH) of Galax, Va., has enabled the facility to reduce report turnaround times from 24 hours to minutes for radiology reports in the clinic and has significantly improved patient throughput, patient care and patient satisfaction.

January 8, 2010 - The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) will fund at least 10 new Creativity and 20 new multi-year Young Investigator Awards in the first half of 2010 to support innovative research in the field of cancer research.

This new round of funding will support many projects that would otherwise be left unfunded due to cutbacks in federal funding and the global recession.

January 7, 2010 - Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) better detects whether a person with memory loss might have brain changes of Alzheimer's disease than traditional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), according to a new study published in the January 6, 2010, online issue of Neurology.

January 6, 2010 - Montefiore Medical Center recently became the first hospital on the East Coast to conduct radiofrequency ablation to shrink uterine fibroids in women 30 years and older.

January 6, 2010 - The American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM) is holding its annual meeting Jan. 27-28, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M., in conjunction with the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) Mid-Winter Meeting.

January 6, 2010 - While the definition of “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is still pending, vendors are seeking to get IT products certified in hopes it will soon pay off.

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