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.

September 19, 2007 — Siemens Medical Solutions and Xintek Inc. recently announced that they have signed an agreement to establish a joint venture company in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
The mission of the new company, named XinRay Systems, is to develop a new multipixel X-ray source technology for a broad range of diagnostic imaging applications.

September 18, 2007 – A recent study showed more than a 50 percent reduction in surgical site infection rates and significantly shorter hospital stays with the use of the ON-Q PainBuster with ON-Q SilverSoaker antimicrobial catheter from the I-Flow Corporation.

September 19, 2007 – GE Healthcare recently announced that 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 U.S., providing radiographic imaging for sinus, skull base, head and neck and temporal bone assessment.

September 19, 2007 - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has announced the recipients of the 2007 Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence in the Organizational, Ambulatory and Public Health categories.

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