October 21, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected Gunnery Sgt. Edward Schrank as its 2009 Survivor Circle Award winner.

Schrank will be presented with his award and $1,000 during the Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, during ASTRO's 51st Annual Meeting taking place Nov. 1-5 at McCormick Place West in Chicago.

October 21, 2009 – King Pharmaceuticals Inc. said today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a complete response letter regarding the new drug application (NDA) for its cardiac pharmacologic stress agent CorVue (binodenoson), and the company is working on a response.

October 21, 2009 - Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, unveiled what he called the “stethoscope of the 21st century” at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Calif., yesterday.

Immelt held up a smart phone-sized ultrasound system called Vscan. The white gadget with a flip-out screen and a control mechanism looks similar to the old iPod navigation wheel.

October 21, 2009 – Carestream Health Inc. yesterday announced the availability of its new Web-based cardiology PACS that provides an efficient enterprise-wide image and information management solution for cardiology data. The CARESTREAM Cardiology PACS is now available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Italy.

October 21, 2009 - Velocity Medical Solutions, a provider of tools for clinical outcomes, radiation treatment planning and software development for oncology, has introduced a new subscription service designed to quickly provide adaptive radiation therapy to hospitals and radiation oncology centers with minimal up-front capital investment.

October 21, 2009 - GE Healthcare launched a new solution that puts clinical data and treatment practices in the hands of doctors and clinicians in real-time so that they can make informed decisions right at the point of care.

October 20, 2009 - Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), joined by representatives of the American Medical Association (AMA), American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) and the Military Officers Association of America at a Capitol Hill news conference, urged lawmakers to reverse $247 billion in projected Medicare reimbursement cuts to doctors.

October 20, 2009 - The American College of Radiology is urging the medical community to support a bill (S. 1776) to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and erase the $240 billion debt associated with it.

October 20, 2009 - 2-18F-fluoropropionic acid (18F-FPA) as a PET tracer for imaging prostate cancer has potential for use in the clinical diagnosis of prostate cancer in humans.

October 20, 2009 - SERVICE 800's honored Agfa Healthcare with a five-year award for exceptional service quality at the Customer Satisfaction Executive Conference.

This annual forum is a gathering of technology executives from around the world who have a common interest in measuring and benchmarking service performance delivery.
 

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