May 7, 2009 – Researchers concluded that laparoscopy should be offered to all patients who lack an absolute contraindication for laparoscopic surgery, concluded doctors in a study comparing outcomes of non-emergent laparoscopic to open colon surgery.

May 7, 2009 - Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have developed an imaging device utilizing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that provides extremely detailed, high-resolution images of the brain.

These images, depicting brain tissue down to the blood vessel level, will be useful for detecting brain disorders, including tumors.

GE Healthcare's CardioICE (intra-cardiac echo) is offered as a feature on the new CardioLab XTi EP recording system, released in May 2009. CardioICE synchronizes EP signal data and procedure information with real-time ultrasound images.

May 6, 2009 - Eric Nussbaum, M.D., chair of the National Brain Aneurysm Center based at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., will be presented with the 2009 BrainLAB Community Neurosurgeon Award at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) annual conference in San Diego on Wednesday, May 6, 2009.

May 6, 2009 - A dedicated breast cool-tip RF ablation system can induce complete tumor necrosis and reproducible ablation volumes independently of breast glandular pattern, providing excellent cosmesis, according to a study by From the Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Radiation Therapy and Interventional Radiology, General Surgery Division, and University Hospital Policlinico Tor Ve

May 6, 2009 - GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt will hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 7, in Washington, D.C., at the Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. , to unveil GE’s new global business strategy for delivering better health care to more people at a lower cost.

May 6, 2009 - Aspyra Inc. has entered into an agreement with Springfield Clinic LLP, a multispecialty physicians groups
in Illinois, to upgrade the laboratory’s existing LIS to the most current release of Aspyra’s CyberLAB Laboratory Information System (LIS) solution, version 7.2.

May 6, 2009 - University of Utah Health Care this week celebrated the opening of the first integrated electrophysiology (EP) MRI laboratory in North America.

May 6, 2009 - A newly discovered gene known as DEAR1 is mutated in breast cancer and is an independent predictor of local recurrence-free survival in early-onset breast cancer, a research team headed by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the journal PLoS Medicine.

May 6, 2009 - Physicians should review a patient's CT imaging history and cumulative radiation dose when considering whether to perform another CT exam, according to researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, and Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.

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