January 2, 2008 – Unless limited to women young in age or to women with dense breasts, digital mammography screening does not result in sufficient health gains to outweigh its increased cost, according to a study appearing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted as part of the Digital Mammography Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST).

January 2, 2008 – Allergic-like reactions to gadolinium-containing contrast injections in adults and pediatric patients, under the age of 19, are rare, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor, MI,.
Studying 78,353 gadolinium-containing contrast injections over five years, acute allergic-like reactions occurred after 54 injections, 48 reactions involved adults and six occurred in pediatric patients. Seventy-four percent of these reactions were mild, 19 percent were moderate and seven percent were marked as severe.

Varian Medical Systems offers the RapidArc radiotherapy technology, which is designed to deliver image-guided, intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) reportedly two to eight times faster and more precisely than conventional IMRT or helical tomotherapy.

December 31, 2007 - KLAS rating service has recognized Unity PACS by DR Systems as the leading PACS vendor in its 2007 Community Hospital PACS Report, scoring above all other PACS providers including GE, McKesson, Siemens, Carestream and Philips.

Unity RIS/PACS integrates numerous tools to improve financial performance and productivity, including: Web-based scheduling, image, report and audio clip distribution; patented, automated hanging protocols for radiologists; and the report format preferences of individual referring physicians.

December 31, 2007 - American Medical Sales Inc. has received 15 new orders from its distributor network during December 2007, consisting of products from both its’ MIDAS line of mid-sized PACS solutions and its PACS-in-a-BOX products designed for private practices and imaging centers.

December 28, 2007 - Sutter Solano Medical Center (SSMC) was recently named a 2007 Press Ganey Compass Award Winner for its Emergency Department's overall improvements in patient satisfaction scores, compared to all other facilities being measured.

The award is a symbol of achievement in the healthcare industry that is bestowed annually, and SSMC is just one of three facilities in its class (emergency departments under 30,000 annual visits) to receive the honor.

December 28, 2007 - AspenBio Pharma Inc. has outlined plans in 2008 for submitting its final data package to the FDA for market approval of AppyScore, the first blood-based screen/triage test for human appendicitis.

Following its official pre-IDE response from FDA in November, AspenBio plans to complete the final data package for a 510(k) submission by mid to late 2008. FDA regulations require the FDA to complete the 510(k) review within 90 days of submission.

December 29, 2007 - Cone-beam breast CT provides exceptional tissue contrast and can potentially reduce examination time with comparable radiation dose to conventional 2D mammography, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

December 28, 2007 – CML HealthCare Income Fund has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire American Radiology Services Inc. (ARS), a provider of fully integrated diagnostic medical imaging services based in Baltimore, MD.

ARS, in conjunction with The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation is one of the largest providers of medical imaging services in the U.S. by volume, performing approximately 2.2 million medical imaging scans per year.

December 28, 2007 - The data converter and amplifiers market for portable imaging systems will reach $582.7 million in 2011 up from $316 million in 2006, according to research from Frost & Sullivan.

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