June 20, 2007 - The Patient Resource Cancer Guide is a comprehensive list of the more than 1,400 cancer treatment facilities in the U.S. The guide lists the facilities’ locations, phone numbers and Web sites, serving as a time-saving resource for cancer patients and their families.
The guide’s content includes:
The importance of choosing the correct initial treatment
How to find the best treatment facilities in the U.S.
How to locate the top specialists for individual types of cancer
The importance of getting a second and even a third opinion

June 20, 2007 - CDW Healthcare today announced it has recently signed an agreement with Sorna Corp. to offer its entire product line of DICOM-compliant medical imaging solutions to CDW Healthcare customers, allowing for a larger variety of DICOM choices.

June 19, 2007 - ECRI Institute's 15th Annual Conference, Comparative Effectiveness of Health Interventions: Strategies to Change Policy and Practice, will seek answers with the help of the nation's leading experts in this emerging field, taking place October 17-18, 2007, in Washington, D.C.

June 18, 2007 – IBA Molecular has begun delivery of Iodine-124 to PET Centers in Europe. The positron emitter has been on the market in North America since 2004.

According to the company, because of its properties and convenient half-life of 100.3 hours, I-124 is ideal for radiolabeling antibodies and has sparked a growing interest in the medical oncology community in Europe.

The Vreije Universiteit in Amsterdam will serve as I-124’s primary production location in Europe.

For more information: www.iba-worldwide.com

June 18, 2007 — Newport Medical Instruments, Inc. recently announced that its newest generation of ventilator, the Newport e360, has added a new Biphasic breath type in its latest software version.

Biphasic Pressure Release Ventilation (BPRV) allows free inhalation and exhalation during a pressure-controlled breath by means of a partially open, actively controlled exhalation valve. The goal of BPRV is to improve patient comfort, reduce the expiratory work of breathing and possibly improve oxygenation when the patient has an intact respiratory drive.

June 19, 2007 - Co-sponsored by the American College of Surgeons, The Joint Commission and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Wednesday, June 20 is National Time Out Day, dedicated to reminding surgical team members how important taking “time out” can be to ensuring patient safety in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC).

June 18, 2007 — ECRI Institute's 15th Annual Conference, Comparative Effectiveness of Health Interventions: Strategies to Change Policy and Practice will take place on October 17-18, 2007.

The conference, held in Washington D.C. will provide insight into comparative effectiveness methods, management, diffusion to policy and practice, and underlying thinking among multiple constituencies.

June 19, 2007—ECRI Institute (formerly ECRI) is offering hospitals a one-day pump workshop titled “Get the Facts on Acquiring Smarter Pumps” with support from Massachusetts General Hospital on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA.

Hospital staff will have an opportunity to learn from presenters who will combine clinical considerations, information from medical device evaluations, and guided interaction with devices to teach acquisition strategies.

June 19, 2007 - SenoRx Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its third patent for the Multi-Lumen Radiation Balloon Applicator for the treatment of breast cancer, strengthening the current intellectual property for certain proprietary manufacturing and product design aspects of the Radiation Balloon.

Source: The New York Times / By RONI CARYN RABIN

June 19, 2007 - Advances in radiology have radically transformed medical practice, with CT scans and nuclear medicine exams providing physicians with the ability to quickly pinpoint internal bleeding, diagnose kidney stones or confirm appendicitis, assess thyroid function and identify and open blockages in the blood vessels to the heart.

The downside is that Americans are being exposed to record amounts of ionizing radiation, the most energetic and potentially hazardous form of radiation.

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