April 21, 2008- The market for automated blood pressure measurement devices is set for robust growth and is projected to reach $793 million by 2010, according to Global Industry Analysts Inc.

The increase is driven primarily by rising levels of health awareness among the general population. Increasing healthcare costs are also expected to contribute significantly to the growth of self-care devices such as automated blood pressure devices, said the company.

April 22, 2008 - The Society for Women's Health Research is sponsoring “Keeping Abreast of Trends in Mammography,” a lunch briefing on Monday, May 5 at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.

A panel of speakers will present information about declines in mammography rates, problems facing radiologists and the future of breast cancer screening.

For more information: www.womenshealthresearch.org

April 22, 2008 - A report released last week said hospitals in New York are getting better at providing language assistance to non-English speaking patients, which is big problem in New York City where roughly 2 million people speak little or no English.

April 22, 2008 – Vocantas, a developer of interactive voice response (IVR) solutions, today said it partnered with Communication Business Avenue Inc. (CBA) of Kanagawa, Japan, to help it address critical healthcare shortages in Japan where people have died while waiting for care.

A recent survey discovered that Japanese hospitals rejected 14,000 emergency patients in 2007. CBA is helping hospitals reduce waiting times to accommodate more patients and needed a partner with IVR experience.

April 22, 2008 - Toshiba Teli America Inc. today introduced the T24MSA001-MD medical-grade 24-inch LCD color widescreen monitor with full HD (1,080-pixels) resolution for a natural reproduction of video images and the highest level of differentiation during such applications as diagnostic analysis, video endoscopy and surgery.

The new monitor also offers 800:1 contrast, a brightness level of 500 cd/m2, and the versatility of PIP/POP functionality. It is pole or wall mountable using standard VESA brackets.

April 22, 2008 - Tumor metastasis is caused by cancer cells that exploit a small number of master control genes, according to research delivered by the keynote speaker, Robert Weinberg, M.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, at the opening of the International Conference on 'Invasion and Metastasis' in Berlin, Germany.

April 22, 2008 - PACSGEAR Inc. has added a high-volume robotic CD/DVD burner for its PACSGEAR MediaWriter.

To be launched at the SIIM 2008 next month, MediaWriter D200 uses the Epson Discproducer to quickly write and print DICOM CDs/DVDs with one click. Discproducer has two CD/DVD drives and a capacity of 100 discs, giving hospitals, healthcare networks and imaging centers a DICOM distribution solution that is easy to configure, deploy and maintain, according to the company.

For more information: www.pacsgear.com

April 22, 2008 - NeuroLogica Corp. will acquire all technology and assets for Xenon CT Perfusion from Diversified Diagnostic Products Inc., looking for the combination of portable CT and Xenon CT perfusion to allow faster, more accurate and quantifiable information on cerebral blood flow in patients with a variety of neurological emergencies such as stroke and traumatic brain injury.
Xenon CT Perfusion, though used under IRB permission in the U.S., is reportedly considered the gold standard in measuring cerebral blood flow.

April 22, 2008 - InSite One and Avreo Inc. have furthered their contract, allowing Avreo to resell InSite One’s archive and disaster recovery services in support of its RIS/PACS solutions, allowing Avreo to provide its distribution channels with services that include hosted data protection and remote archiving of DICOM and non-DICOM images and information.

April 22, 2008 – Despite the growing popularity of digital technologies, X-ray films continue to record growth derived from traditional use in general radiography and mammography applications, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts Inc.

Overall market for X-ray films, chemicals and processors is projected to reach $5.9 billion by 2010.

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