December 22, 2008 - A Swiss cancer clinic is among the first in the world to use the newest radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems, RapidArc, to treat a child patient.

A 12-year-old girl with Hodgkin's lymphoma was treated using Varian's RapidArc technique at the Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana (IOSI) in Bellinzona, southern Switzerland.

December 22, 2008 - SenoRx Inc. said the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its sixth brachytherapy-related patent and fourth patent directly related to its Contura Multi-Lumen Radiation Balloon (MLB) catheter for the treatment of breast cancer.

December 22, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients with reportedly a faster and more precise form of radiotherapy, the RapidArc from Varian.

December 22, 2008 - The Medipattern Corp. and iPACS.US LLC have signed a non-exclusive original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement allowing iPACS to integrate B-CAD into its product line, according to Medipattern.

December 19, 2008 – To meet the growing demand for the high quality diagnostic imaging and testing services in local communities, the North Shore-LIJ Health System has opened a newly renovated $4.3 million, 4,000-square-foot outpatient imaging center.

December 19, 2008 – GE Healthcare IT released Centricity Business version 4.3, the latest version of the GE Healthcare solution for revenue cycle management, patient access and managed care is designed to drive efficiency and enhance services for academic medical centers, hospitals and hospital networks and large practices in the U.S.

December 19, 2008 - GE Healthcare’s Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) quality data system was selected by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as a reporting registry for the 2008 program, and GE expects this registry certification to continue in 2009.

December 19, 2008 — While radiation treatments deliver precise doses of high-energy X-rays to stop cancer cells from spreading or to shrink tumors, oncologists have become increasingly concerned about inadvertent exposures during head and neck cancer treatments to nerves responsible for upper body mobility.

December 19, 2008 - Siemens Healthcare signed an agreement with Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, to integrate the use of laboratory diagnostics, imaging and information technology systems to improve management of patient care from early detection and diagnosis of diseases or conditions to patient treatment.

December 18, 2008 - Doctors at the Cancer Treatment Services in Casa Grande, AZ, have begun treating cancer patients with a reportedly fast and precise form of radiotherapy, using RapidArc radiotherapy technology by Varian Medical Systems.

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