April 24, 2007 - GE Healthcare recently announced it has received clearance from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the company's next-generation volume PET/CT application, PET VCAR (Volume Computer-Assisted Reading), created to help clinicians diagnose, stage, treat and monitor tumors and other lesions in the body.

April 24, 2007 - AADCO Medical Inc. has developed a new sterilized disposable surgical drape, X-drape, made from its non-leaded composite radiation absorbing material, "X-Ban" and reportedly works within the sterile field to significantly reduce dose from scatter radiation, up to 98 percent.

April 23, 2007 — IntelliDOT Corp. has announced the debut of the CAREt Vital Signs Collection (VSC) System, which electronically captures and documents patient vital signs at the point of care.

The CAREt VSC System allows the caregiver to document a patient's vital signs information. The vital signs product is designed to complement IntelliDOT's existing suite of patient safety solutions, allowing nurses to collect vital signs before, during or after the medication administration process.

April 23, 2007 - Today, Siemens is convening approximately 175 leading users of its Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for its fourth annual CPOE symposium.

April 23, 2007 - Cepheid is FDA-cleared to market the Xpert MRSA test, which runs on the GeneXpert System, for the rapid detection of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Xpert MRSA results, delivered in a little over one hour, rapidly identify carriers of the potential pathogen and enable healthcare organizations to implement the proper infection control measures, leading to lower hospital acquired infection rates while improving patient care.

April 23, 2007 - RamSoft recently announced the release of its PowerServer PACS version 4.3, an enterprise grade solution for image management, the first release under the company's new Customer Action Initiative (CAI), a program aimed at customer centric software development.

April 20, 2007 - HealthSouth Corp. recently announced an agreement to sell its Diagnostic Division to The Gores Group for approximately $47.5 million; the transaction is expected to be completed by the end of June or early third quarter 2007.

April 20, 2007 - Cambridge Endo, a Massachusetts-based medical device company, announced the development of the first full-line of fully articulating hand-held instruments for laparoscopic surgeons: Autonomy Laparo-Angle Instrumentation. These revolutionary instruments provide seven degrees of freedom and map the motion of the hand holding the instrument. This freedom of movement delivers a new level of access, positioning, and control. The ergonomic handle enables comfortable single-handed use and helps relieve surgeon fatigue.

April 20, 2007 - Clinicians at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland are using the 250 MeV Cyclotron, a new cyclotron from ACCEL Instruments GmbH, part of Varian Medical Systems, to deliver proton therapy treatments for a range of cancer patients.

April 20, 2007 - Researchers at the Harvard Medical School have developed a new technique that uses harmless light instead of X-ray imaging combined with a contrast agent that targets and highlights malignant micro-calcifications in the breast, while disregarding similar micro-calcifications found in benign breast conditions.

When used with a non-invasive imaging that uses harmless light instead of x-rays, researchers have found that the contrast agent could help clinicians diagnose disease within minutes and determine where biopsies are needed.

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