September 21, 2007 – DataBay Resources, a provider of healthcare market assessment software, announces the release of NavigateMD, an Internet-based system for health care strategic planners, marketers and physician recruiters designed to determine the physician supply and community demand of a service area.

NavigateMD incorporates new technologies and methodologies to include a physician’s out-of-area influences and does not limit the determination by only the physical location of the physician.

September 21, 2007 - Carestream Health Inc. announced it has secured a multimillion-dollar order with the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) New England Region for the company’s premier healthcare IT systems, allowing the company to provide healthcare IT solutions that include a KODAK CARESTREAM PACS, a regional archive, data migration, network integration and other professional IT services.

September 20, 2007 - The 22nd annual Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (CARS) International Congress and Exhibition takes place June 25-28, 2008 in Barcelona.

As a result of widespread clinical acceptance of computer assisted methods and tools, more than half of the symposium organizing and program committees for CARS are radiologists or surgeons, the remainder being computer scientists and engineers.

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 - 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.