December 15, 2008 - A novel X-ray technique developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland allows researchers to see molecular motion on a time scale, reported an article published in the journal Science, online Dec. 11, 2008.

December 15, 2008 - Nuance Communications Inc. said today that more than 100 healthcare customers are using background speech recognition with Nuance’s on-premise Dictaphone Enterprise Speech System.

December 15, 2008 - Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) alternated with mammography at six-month intervals can detect breast cancers not identified by mammography alone, according to a study by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

December 15, 2008 — GE Healthcare has entered into a partnership with Deep Breeze Ltd., a leader in vibration response imaging (VRI) technology, and announced that the FDA granted 510(k) marketing clearance for the VRIxv, a noninvasive, radiation-free lung imaging system.

The VRIxv will be on display at the 54th AARC International Respiratory Congress from Dec. 13-16, in Anaheim, CA.

December 12, 2008 – Siemens Healthcare announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for IQ-SPECT technology.

December 12, 2008 - Currently, combinations of chemotherapy and radiotherapy are the standard treatment approach for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, and concomitant chemo-radiotherapy, although associated with increased acute toxicity, has demonstrated to be the better strategy over sequential chemo-radiotherapy, and it is to be considered a standard approach in patie

December 12, 2008 - Using a three-dimensional (3D) image-guided system to help place screws in the spines of patients results in safe and accurate surgery with a decrease in the number of misplaced screws, and subsequent injuries, seen in more traditional operations, say neurosurgeons at Mayo Clinic in Florida.

December 12, 2008 - ICON said its medical imaging division launched a new cardiac echocardiography analysis software solution, MIRA-ECHO, which enables echo images to be viewed, measured and interpreted in clinical trials and is the latest addition to ICON Medical Imaging's proprietary MIRA (Medical Imaging Review and Analysis) platform.

December 11, 2008 - The first patient to be treated clinically with a new treatment planning system for proton radiation therapy developed by RaySearch took place at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden.

December 11, 2008 - In an interview at a conference at Columbia University in New York last Friday, General Electric Co.’s CEO Jeff Immelt said the company is cutting costs and said costs will be lower in 2009 than in 2008.

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