December 11, 2007 - A poll of infection prevention professionals conducted six months after the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology’s (APIC) national MRSA Prevalence Study indicated that while 59 percent of the 2,100 who responded are adopting or already adopted interventions to address Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 50 percent said their healthcare facility is not doing as much as it could.

December 11, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems announced that two new private cancer centers in Switzerland have been equipped with the company’s radiotherapy machines, offering image guided advanced intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatments to patients.

December 11, 2007 - GE’s SnapShot Pulse technology for prospectively gated diagnostic cardiac CT exams has been proven to reduce a patient’s radiation exposure by up to 83 percent and improve image quality, validated from clinicians performing thousands of exams at sites around the world.

December 11, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. launched computer-aided detection (CAD) software for its CR-based mammography platforms in Europe and Canada, aiming to assist in the early detection of breast cancer.

December 10, 2007 - EDAP TMS S.A. a leader in high intensity focused ultrasound treatment of prostate cancer, announced the launch of Ablatherm HIFU treatments at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN as part of EDAP's ongoing Phase II/III U.S. Clinical Study program seeking FDA approval as the first HIFU device for prostate cancer in the U.S.

The first patient was successfully treated with Ablatherm-HIFU at Vanderbilt in November, after securing all necessary approvals with the center to initiate the study.