June 17, 2008 - The Premier healthcare alliance’s purchasing partners division last week recognized the winners of its third annual Pinnacle Award and Performance Award at the 2008 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition in Nashville, TN.

June 17, 2008 - One of the biggest challenges in fighting tuberculosis is simply getting patients to take their medicine, and MIT students have come up with a possible solution using a new testing and reporting system that is easy for patients to use and offers free cell phone minutes.

Tuberculosis kills an estimated 2 million people every year, and treating the disease requires a strict six-month regimen of antibiotics. If patients abandon the treatment early, the TB bacteria survive and can become resistant to first-line antibiotics.

June 17, 2008 - Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions will host a three-day workshop, “Developing, Financing and Implementing the Standardized Patient Experience in Nursing Education,” for nursing educators Aug. 12-14, 2008

June 17, 2008 - A new report on the worldwide wound care market by Kalorama Information shows research is shining a light on some very familiar substances that have powerful medicinal properties - including honey and silver.

Advancements in biotechnology, biomaterials and tissue engineering are driving growth in the worldwide wound care market, which reached $12.3 billion in 2007.

June 17, 2008 – Imaging Dynamics Co. began implementing a contract awarded by the Government of Pakistan to install the X-Series 2200 digital radiography (DR) systems in eight A-Class military hospitals, looking to provide high-quality images using low dose and with a low cost of ownership compared to traditional film X-ray technology.

This is the second contract that IDC has been awarded to provide DR systems to hospitals in Pakistan.

June 17, 2008 – A radiation-free ultrasound exam of a women’s heel may predict if a woman is at an increased risk for fractures, according to a new multicenter study published in the July issue of the journal Radiology, finding that radiation-free ultrasound of the heel may be used to better select women who need further bone density testing, such as a dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) exam.

June 17, 2008 - Decatur Memorial Hospital is the first medical center in Illinois and the third in the U.S. to treat a cancer patient using RapidArc radiotherapy technology, delivering advanced image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatments two to eight times faster than is possible with conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy.

June 17, 2008 - Gamma Medica-Ideas and GE Healthcare entered a partnership allowing GE to be the exclusive distributor of Gamma Medica-Ideas’ pre-clinical imaging products effective July 1, 2008, hoping to have a positive impact on new pharmaceutical therapeutic development by allowing researchers to visualize the structure, function and response of laboratory animals in vivo.

June 17, 2008 - Gamma Medica-Ideas and GE Healthcare signed an agreement that GE Healthcare will be the exclusive distributor of Gamma Medica-Ideas' preclinical imaging products effective July 1, 2008, as announced at the 55th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine.

Pre-Clinical imaging plays a key role in new pharmaceutical therapeutic development by allowing researchers to visualize the structure, function and response of laboratory animals in vivo.

June 17, 2008 – Findings indicate that when used with PET technology, BMS747158 demonstrates a favorable radiation dosimetry profile and is generally well tolerated, according to data presented by Lantheus Medical Imaging at SNM 2008.

Principal Investigator, Dr. Jamshid Maddah presented the Phase I data relating to the safety and tolerability in human subjects of BMS747158, its novel fluorine 18-labeled positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for myocardial perfusion imaging.

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