November 13, 2009 - Del Global Technologies Corp. said it reached an agreement in Principle with United Marketing Group (UMG) to transfer certain assets and the product lines of Del Medical Imaging from Del Global to UMG.

The parties target to have the transaction completed prior to the 2009 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) trade show beginning at the end of this month.

November 13, 2009 – A new imaging agent for measuring and monitoring cathepsin B activity associated with disease progression and therapeutic response in vivo will be released at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando this weekend.


November 12, 2009 - Researchers from the University of California, Irvine Medical Center reported that image-guided RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems conformed to the shape and size of a targeted tumor at least as well as dynamic, fixed-beam approaches to IMRT, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) for treating cancer.

November 12, 2009 - Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) will expand coverage of FDG-PET for the initial staging of cervical cancer without previously imposed restrictions.

November 12, 2009 - To achieve the HITECH Act's goal of improving healthcare for patients by making it patient-centered, "information should follow the patient, and... should not get in the way," stressed David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., the national coordinator for health information technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, in a public statement issued today.

November 12, 2009 - Carestream Health launched an enhanced vendor-neutral archiving solution that delivers a consolidated data storage and management solution for any data type, regardless of vendor.

November 12, 2009 - Highlighted by a new digital radiography (DR) auto-positioning for auto-stitch feature, Viztek, the comprehensive medical imaging solution provider, debuts a range of enhancements to its Viztek family of DR products at the upcoming Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) conference.

November 12, 2009 – IBA (Ion Beam Applications S.A.) introduced a smaller, two-room, and lower-cost footprint for traditional Proton Therapy centers for cancer treatment, called the Proteus Nano, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO), Nov. 1–5, 2009, at McCormick Place West in Chicago, Ill.

November 12, 2009 - Positron Corp. predicts an industry wide demand for cardiac PET imaging, as a result of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule increasing Cardiac PET reimbursement by 20 percent, while reducing coverage for SPECT by 36 percent.

November 12, 2009 – William Ganz, M.D., an internationally-recognized leader and inventor in heart medicine, died Tuesday night of natural causes at the age of 90.

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