September 9, 2008 - Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. issued a statement assuring regulatory authorities, key customers and partners that they will continue to receive supply of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the parent isotope of Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) in their TechneLite generators, during the current global isotope shortage and will continue to fulfill preexisting standing orders and try to meet additional demands during this critical time.

September 9, 2008 – Radiologists in the U.S. have had an average salary of more than $400,000 and have the highest percentage of filled residency positions among U.S. graduates at 88.7 percent, reported a study on primary care shortage linked with salary disparities.

The new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that salary disparities play a major role in the shortage, and that the nation’s shortage of primary care physicians has been linked to a host of poor health outcomes.

September 9, 2008 - Siemens Healthcare has received FDA 510(k) market clearance for the Ysio, a new generation digital radiography system with a wireless detector (wi-D) for maximum positioning flexibility.

September 9, 2008 - Merge Healthcare today announced that Metro Imaging, a St. Louis-area network of five freestanding centers, is among several imaging centers successfully using its RIS and PACS to help streamline operations in response to Medicare reimbursement declines associated with the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

September 9, 2008 – Aptium Oncology, which develops hospital-based outpatient cancer centers, will inaugurate the Aptium Oncology GI Cancer Consortium (AGICC), a consortium that aims to speed the process of finding and efficiently testing active new compounds for patients with gastrointestinal cancers, enabling useful drugs to reach the market more quickly.

September 9, 2008 – Nucletron will introduce its latest innovation in image-guided adaptive brachytherapy for cervical cancer at the ESTRO 2008 conference in Gothenburg, Sweden Sept. 14-18 and one week later, at ASTRO 2008 in Boston, Sept. 21-25, 2008.

September 8, 2008 - A new medtech spin-off from CSA Medical Inc. is reportedly about to give cancer patients and their caregivers a reason to breathe more easily.

ZOLL will feature CodeNet, reportedly the first software system that allows hospital teams to better document, manage and review a cardiac arrest event and resuscitation information. CodeNet brings new improvements and efficiencies in data capture, event time synchronization and case and aggregate reporting. The software time stamps logged events and synchronizes these times with defibrillator data, aiming to provide clinicians with a complete and accurate timeline of an entire cardiac arrest event.

ZOLL will feature its array of defibrillators at TCT 2008.

The R Series offers smart tools to help clinicians improve CPR performance. It also features both ZOLL's Real CPR Help and patented See-Thru CPR technology. See-Thru CPR helps minimize interruptions in CPR - one of the key recommendations of the American Heart Association's guidelines for advanced cardiac life support - by extracting CPR artifact and showing a "filtered" ECG on the defibrillator screen. It allows rescuers to see organized cardiac rhythm without stopping compressions.

Siemens Healthcare has expanded its digital radiography portfolio with the addition of Ysio, a new generation digital radiography system with a wireless detector (wi-D) for maximum positioning flexibility.

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