January 30, 2008 - Shepard Medical Products yesterday announced its new blog Web site CareMates Infection Protection, an online public health news service underwritten by Shepard Medical and their CareMates brand.

The blog can be accessed at www.care-mates.com/Blog/. The blog was created as a resource to healthcare professionals, health media, and the general public for the latest international news and original articles on communicable and infectious diseases.

January 30, 2008 - Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers in Evergreen Park, IL, has announced it will offer a new clinical study by Xoft using electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of early stage breast cancer, which involves the delivery of a safer form of radiation to breast cancer patients that will reduce the average treatment time from seven weeks to just one week.

January 30, 2008 - The Temperature Product Group of Measurement Specialties (MEAS), created by the combination of BetaTHERM Sensors and the organization formerly known as YSI Temperature, announced this month it obtained CE Marking of Conformity.

This certificate covers the 400 Series Probes, which are used in hospitals and medical clinics worldwide and are considered an industry standard. The probes are reusable, general-purpose skin surface temperature probes.

January 30, 2008 - Children’s Hospital Boston said this week it selected ImageNow enterprise document management, imaging and workflow from Perceptive Software to assist in reducing manual efforts in invoice processing while increasing the department’s level of accuracy.

January 30, 2008 - Palomar Medical Technologies Inc., a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced that it will unveil two new fractional handpieces at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in San Antonio, TX from February 2 to 4.

January 30, 2008 - The TerraPharma Project LLC, an educational advocacy organization promoting patient safety improvement, today announced agreements with four top healthcare group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to promote The unSUMMIT conference for Bedside Barcoding April 30 – May 2 in Austin, TX.

January 30, 2008 - TopSpin Medical Inc. installed the Cathamaran Intravascular MRI System at ZOL Hospital in Belgium, marking the first installation of the system and its entrance in a study on vulnerable plaque.

January 30, 2008 - NightHawk Radiology is the exclusive radiology provider for the High-Risk Plaque Initiative, called the HRP Initiative, a research effort aiming to interpret CT Chest scans to identify clinically significant cardiac and nonardiac findings where the participant might benefit from its detection and follow-up.

January 30, 2008 - Carestream Health introduced a new radiographic table for use with its Kodak Directview Digital Radiography systems that can also be used for computed radiography and film-based procedures, featuring an elevated table with a four-way floating tabletop and a new pedestal design.

January 30, 2008 - TopSpin Medical Inc. announced the first commercial installation of the Cathamaran Intravascular MRI System at ZOL Hospital, Genk, Belgium, with the first procedures performed on Jan. 16.

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