December 19, 2007 - Novadaq Technologies is the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan North American Medical Imaging Product of the Year award for its SPY Intra-operative Imaging System, reportedly the first and only fluorescent imaging system cleared by the FDA that enables cardiac surgeons to visually assess bypass graft functionality during coronary artery bypass procedures.

December 19, 2007 – Neurognostics will be installing their Functional MR Imaging (fMRI) system at Hoag Hospital in Pasadena, CA and North Shore-LIJ Health System in New York, providing the centers with data acquisition hardware and workflow software,

In addition, the Neurognostics fMRI system also includes an extensive library of stimulation paradigms that are designed to map a variety of cognitive and motor functions, including memory, reasoning, language, and perceptual abilities.

December 19, 2007 - Confirma and GE Healthcare have expanded their strategic partnership to offer Confirma services to GE Healthcare customers with CADstream.

Under the new agreement, Confirma will offer program consultation, applications training, customizable educational courses, and marketing and reimbursement consultation to GE Healthcare customers with CADstream.

Covidien will feature the expanded capabilities of its PURITAN BENNETT 840 ventilator with a Respiratory Mechanics (RM) software option at SCCM 2008.

Covidien will feature the expanded capabilities of its PURITAN BENNETT 840 ventilator with a Respiratory Mechanics (RM) software option at SCCM 2008.

December 18, 2007 - Royal Philips Electronics today announced a merger agreement with clinical IT and service provider Visicu Inc., which Philip’s hopes to integrate the company’s remote patient monitoring and clinical decision support technology with Philips’ patient monitors.

Philip’s said the merger will help produce products to give more clinical decision support to hospital staff, while and allow them to monitor greater numbers of critically ill patients.

December 18, 2007 - The American Cancer Society recently reported 12 million new cases of cancer diagnosed worldwide in 2007, with 7.6 million people dying from the disease.
According to the report, Global Cancer Facts & Figures, 5.4 million cancers cases and 2.9 million deaths are in more developed nations, while 6.7 million new cancer cases and 4.7 million deaths are in developing countries.

December 18, 2007 - BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.), today announced a major study published in the British Journal of Surgery demonstrates that rapid screening for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) could help reduce hospital infection rates by almost 40 percent.

December 18, 2007 - Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) today released the fifth annual “Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism” report, which found while important progress has been made, critical areas of the nation’s emergency health preparedness effort still require attention.

In addition, the continuing trend of annual cuts in federal funding for state and local preparedness activities threatens the nation's safety, the study said.


Linear accelerators typically last about seven years and can cost more than $2 million, but return many times more in cancer therapy revenue for busy outpatient imaging centers. Housed in specially built shielded bunkers, these nine-ton behemoths commonly referred to as “linacs” are the powerful, complex, multitasking engines of radiotherapy.
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