May 23, 2007 —Thoratec Corp. has announced it has completed enrollment in the randomized portion of the Destination Therapy (DT) arm of its Pivotal trial for the HeartMate II by enrolling 200 patients on a randomized basis as called for in the trial protocol.

May 22, 2007 — A widely used diabetes pill raises the risk of heart attacks and possibly death, according to a scientific analysis that reveals what some experts are calling another Vioxx-like example of the government failing to protect the public from an unsafe drug.

More than 6 million people worldwide have taken the drug, sold as Avandia and Avandamet, since it came on the market eight years ago to help control blood sugar in people with the most common form of diabetes. About 1 million Americans use it now.

May 22, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions recently showed a prototype of the world's first fully functioning imaging system capable of simultaneously performing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET), expected to begin testing before the end of 2007.

May 22, 2007 - GE Healthcare today announced an important leadership change for one of the largest businesses within the company. Jim Davis has been promoted to the position of Vice President and General Manager of the company's Global Magnetic Resonance (MR) business. Davis replaces John Chiminski, who is now leading the integration of GE Healthcare’s acquisition of Abbott’s primary in vitro diagnostics businesses and Abbott Point-of-Care diagnostics businesses. Chiminski will lead GE’s new Clinical Diagnostics business following the closing of the acquisition.

May 22, 2007 - PACSGear will introduce at SIIM its newest product, PACSGear MediaWriter, an affordable, distributed CD/DVD burning solution designed for easy configuration, maintentance and deployment wherever images are created in image intensive departments such as radiology, cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology and pathology.

May 22, 2007 - The Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) recently announced it is the first facility in California and the second in the nation to offer SAVI, a single-entry, multi-catheter applicator that delivers partial breast irradiation, offering advanced treatment for breast cancer as part of breast conservation therapy.

Acuo Technologies released its next-generation archive overview, called the AcuoMed Image Manager, reportedly secure, open-system software for transporting, storing, tracking and retrieving digital images across a DICOM network.

The platform uses Microsoft Windows 2000 or 2003 Server under Intel and AMD. The Acuo DICOM Services grid facilitates a DICOM infrastructure built on a SOA that aggregates DICOM objects and queries results, replicates storage assets and builds on a collaborative and extensible grid-computing model.

The DICOM box CA connects non-DICOM modalities to PACS by allowing users to review dynamic images and cine loops outside of modality workstations and providing real-time video acquisition and DICOM conversion from monochrome and color video sources. The CA is designed to facilitate cine acquisition, lossless and lossy image compression and DICOM storage for ultrasound, fluoroscopic, cardiac and angiographic systems.

NAI Tech Products | www.dicombox.com

The Smart Port CT is a new vascular access port indicated for power injection of contrast media with a flow rate of 5mL/sec. The system has a design that allows for superior fluid dynamics to eliminate dead space and the formation of sludge, thus extending the working life of the port.

The Smart Port CT is available in two catheter sizes - 9.6F and 7.5F. It features Fluoromax 100 percent silicone catheters with a radiopaque shaft and tip. The Smart Port CT also features a large septum for easy access. A CT indicated LifeGuard Infusion Needle system is also available.

TIMS DICOM System by Foresight Imaging reportedly has the ability to convert any nonDICOM medical modality to DICOM as a solution for legacy modalities that are too expensive to upgrade.

TIMS can reportedly convert images from the following medical modalities to DICOM, including ultrasound, fluoroscopy, endoscopy and motion X-ray. The solution captures both static images and streaming video at 30 frames per second, and even converts JPEG, BMP and AVI images to DICOM.

Foresight Imaging
www.foresightimaging.com

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