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.

June 17, 2008 - The University of California, San Diego Medical Center’s Hyperbaric Medicine Center is part of a nationwide effort to compile and evaluate data in order to validate whether cancer patients being treated for radiation-related wounds heal more quickly and more thoroughly with hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

The Infinity Omega solution integrates a two-screen patient monitoring solution and consists of a full-function patient monitor capable of supporting patient transport.

Its 20-inch medical-grade touchscreen bedside computer brings IT applications to the point of care. Infinity Omega displays real-time monitoring and ventilation data together with networked data, such as lab results, DICOM/X-ray images and patient/anesthesia data management system information and allows control of monitoring functions from either screen.

June 16, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AS3000 next-generation anesthesia delivery system (the "AS3000") developed by Datascope Patient Monitoring, a Mindray company.

June 16, 2008 - InTouch Technologies Inc. said today it has signed an agreement with Neurostar Solutions Inc. (NSI) to integrate NSI’s clinical image management application into InTouch Health’s telestroke offering.

June 16, 2008 - 3M Health Care and Materials Management Microsystems today they plan to establish connectivity between Microsystems’ SPM sterile processing information system and 3M Attest Auto-readers and 3M Steri-Vac EO Sterilization Systems.

This collaboration will provide hospitals more streamlined data collection, documentation and reporting capabilities, because results from the Attest Auto-reader and Steri-Vac System will download directly into Microsystems’ sterile processing information system.

June 16, 2008 - 3M Health Care said today its 3M Rapid Detection Flu A B Test demonstrated better clinical and analytical sensitivity when compared to the BinaxNOW Influenza A & B Test for influenza A and B, according to research by clinical virology researchers from the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System.

The results of the study were recently presented at the 24th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in Daytona Beach, FL.

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