September 20, 2007 — North American Scientific, Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its NOMOS Radiation Oncology business to privately-held Best Medical International, Inc.

September 20, 2007 – As new Vice President of Critical Care Sales for MAQUET, a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of innovative medical devices, Steven Greenfield will be responsible for managing the critical care division’s U.S. organization of sales representatives.

Greenfield brings over 20 years experience in sales and management in which he has distinguished himself in many leadership roles at world-class companies such as Baxter, Stryker and most recently Johnson & Johnson.

September 20, 2007 - Sensors, such as Medtronic Inc.'s three-day Real-Time monitor for adults or children and DexCom Inc.'s STS-7 seven-day monitor for adults, are changing the way diabetics are monitoring their insulin levels.

The noninvasive sensors replace the standard finger-prick technique for testing blood sugar and come with alarms that can sound in time to avoid dangerously high or low blood sugar levels.

September 20, 2007 - The bones of breast cancer patients tend to age prematurely as a result of chemotherapy and aromatase inhibitor therapy, according to research reported at the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research meeting this week.

The researchers advise that the bone health of these women be evaluated as if this were a much older population of women.

September 20, 2007 - The American Cancer Society, the nation's largest voluntary health organization, announced a major nationwide initiative to call attention to the urgent need for quality, affordable health care for all Americans.

September 20, 2007 - Biopharmaceutical researchers have found a protein in blood they say is linked to all stages of lung cancer but which rarely shows up in the blood of people without the disease.

Testing for this protein might help physicians decide whether smokers or others at high risk for lung cancer should be referred for lung imaging, say investigators, who presented their findings in Atlanta, Georgia at the American Association for Cancer Research's second International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development.

September 20, 2007 - Hologic Inc. a provider of diagnostic imaging and digital imaging systems directed towards women’s health, today announced it has completed the acquisition of BioLucent Inc., a market leader in its development and sale of its MammoPad breast cushion.

September 20, 2007 – Siemens Medical Solutions and Xintek Inc. announced that they have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company in Research Triangle Park, N.C., to develop a new multi-pixel X-ray source technology for a broad range of diagnostic imaging applications.
Siemens and Xintek have developed a nanotechnology-based field emission X-ray source technology that fundamentally changes how X-ray radiation is generated and utilized. This technology is expected to enable new diagnostic imaging systems with enhanced performance and new capabilities.

September 19, 2007 – USGI Medical Inc., makers of the EndoSurgical Operating System (EOS), recently announced that a second center enlisted its surgical platform to orally remove a patient’s gall bladder.
A three-member physician team from Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago became the nation’s second center to utilize the EOS to successfully perform Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) to remove a gall bladder through the patient’s mouth instead of through an abdominal incision.

September 19, 2007 — Ear, Nose and Throat professionals can now obtain state-of-the-art Cone Beam CT technology from GE Healthcare.

Through an exclusive distribution agreement with IMTEC Corp., GE is now the sole distributor of the ILUMA Cone Beam CT Scanner to medical professionals in the United States. The ILUMA Scanner provides radiographic imaging for sinus, skull base, head and neck and temporal bone assessment.

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