September 21, 2007 - North American Scientific Inc. announced that it has completed the previously announced sale of its NOMOS Radiation Oncology business to privately-held Best Medical International Inc.

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 — Healthcare information systems developer, Global Care Quest Inc. today announced that Century City Doctors Hospital (CCDH), an acute-care facility located in Los Angeles, CA., has gone live with Global Care Quest's Integrated Clinical Information System (ICIS).

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 — 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.

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