January 14, 2009 – Leaders from the medical field and academia urge Obama Administration, Congress, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense to increase federal funding for research into imaging technologies for less invasive and more accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer.

January 14, 2009 – After performing stereotactic transperineal prostate biopsy on 747 patients, researchers concluded that forty percent of men with prostate cancer may not even know they have it, according to research study published in a recent issue of Urology.

January 14, 2009 - Merit Medical Systems Inc. said today that it will enter the microcatheter market with the release of the recently FDA cleared Merit Maestro Microcatheter.

Microcatheters are used to deliver various diagnostic, embolic and therapeutic materials to treat uterine fibroids, hypervascularized tumors and vascular malformations.

January 13, 2009 — Tawam Hospital, a leading medical institution in the Middle East, went live with Philips Healthcare’s new iSite Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), representing the first public hospital in the Middle East to implement iSite’s ‘fee per study’ model.