February 5, 2008 - At HIMSS 2008, B. Braun Medical Inc. will exhibit its portfolio of hospital drug patient safety solutions for IV infusion pumps and central pharmacies.

February 5, 2008 - Recent advances in antimicrobial coatings technology are providing the perfect prescription for minimizing the growth of odor and stain-causing microbes on metal healthcare furniture and equipment, including Sureshield antimicrobial coatings.

October 30, 2007- SonoSite Inc. today introduced the S-Cath visualization tool, a specialized ultrasound device designed to meet the specific point-of-care imaging and procedural guidance needs of interventional radiologists and cardiologists.

February 5, 2008 – Barco inked an agreement with Baptist Memorial Health Care to provide diagnostic display systems to all of its 15 affiliate hospitals in the mid-South of the U.S., providing direct access to its technical support team and establishing a dedicated, in-house Baptist Memorial training and support team.

February 5, 2008 - The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of NEMA, said today that the budget President Bush presented to Congress is an important step toward restoring seniors access to life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic medical imaging services.

February 5, 2008 - Matrox Graphics Inc. launched its Digital Luminance Correction (DLC), available on upcoming Matrox display controller boards designed for medical imaging, designed to enable calibration packages from display manufacturers and software developers to uniformly calibrate display luminance within industry standards.

February 4, 2008 - Nucletron BV and clinicians at The Cancer Centre, Northern Ireland, proudly report the first IMRT clinical treatment within the Conventional or Hypofractionated High-Dose Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer (CHHiP) clinical trial utilizing Nucletron's Oncentra MasterPlan.

CHHiP, part of the NCRN/NCRI portfolio of cancer trials and sponsored by the Institute of Cancer Research, is a Phase III national, multi-centre, randomized trial for the treatment of prostate cancer using external beam radiotherapy.

February 1, 2008 - A new and increasingly popular type of minimally invasive sinus surgery exposes patients to only "very low" doses of radiation during the procedure, a level considered to be safe, according to a new study published in the February 2008 issue of the journal Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

February 4, 2008 - Healthcare Providers Direct Inc., a company focused on the development and distribution of rapid diagnostic tests directly to physicians’ offices, announced the release of ImmunoDip, the first rapid screening test to detect microalbuminuria, an early indicator of chronic kidney disease in diabetic patients.

February 4, 2008 - At the annual HIMSS meeting Feb. 23-28, Sprint will focus on its Nextel Direct Connect, its push-to-talk communications device for use in acute care hospitals.

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