April 5, 2007 - Accuray Inc. recently announced that its CyberKnife, a robotic radiosurgery system that is capable of treating tumors anywhere in the body, has been used to treat more than 2,000 lung cancer patients worldwide.

The company also reported that the first patient was treated using the recently introduced Xsight lung tracking system, a system that works with the CyberKnife system to track and treat some lung tumors non-invasively.

April 5, 2007 - Novation and the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) recently announced they have awarded non-acute care medical-surgical distribution contracts to 10 distributors, effective now through March 31, 2012, covering services for a broad range of medical-surgical products.

April 5, 2007 - Welch Allyn announced it has entered into a technology integration agreement with Oridion, a medical device company that manufactures products for ventilation patient monitoring. This agreement will allow the Welch Allyn family of electronic vital signs monitoring devices to integrate Oridion's Microstream branded capnography boards and accessories, which are used to monitor end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) non-invasively in patients.

April 5, 2007 - Controversy over the effectiveness of CAD for screening mammography mounted with recent findings from a study led by Joshua J. Fenton, M.D., M.P.H., on the influence of computer-aided detection (CAD) on the performance of screening mammography, which was published in the April 2007 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Researchers found that the use of CAD was associated with reduced accuracy of interpretation of screening mammograms.

April 5, 2007 - Merge Healthcare today announced the release of its Merge PET/CT Workstation software, a vendor-neutral solution designed to accommodate standard methods used to read images obtained by PET and CT, targeting the need to maximize PET/CT reading and reporting through advanced imaging capabilities with faster workflow.

April 4, 2007 - Vital Signs Inc., which makes breathing management products for the anesthesia, respiratory, critical care and sleep disorder markets, said Tuesday it bought two sleep diagnostic companies and their supplier for about $11.5 million.
The buyout includes a 10 percent earnout over the next three years. Vital Signs subsidiary Sleep Services of America Inc. bought Do You Snore LLC, Southern Medical Equipment Inc. and Advanced Sleep Technologies of Georgia Inc.

April 4, 2007 - Hospital infections are among the top ten leading causes of death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. There are countless stories about patients who go into hospitals with minor conditions and leave under much graver circumstances. As a patient, knowing the right questions to ask about how hospitals prevent infections is extremely important.

April 4, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions announced that it has leveraged user feedback to enhance the SOMATOM Emotion to produce reportedly detailed images with a slice thickness as small as 0.5 mm and with accelerated image reconstruction times, as part of Siemens� strategy to offer cost-effective access to a 16-slice CT system.

April 3, 2007 - Mayo Clinic researchers recently reported that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation may be able to help those who are not candidates for surgical treatment.

The percutaneous ablation process uses needles to penetrate the skin and delivers either high-intensity, tissue destroying heat through radiofrequency ablation, or freezing cold temperatures through cryoablation, directly to the tumor. The procedure shortens the hospital stay and reduces recovery time.

April 3, 2007 - Agfa HealthCare announced today that it is launching its hospital-wide clinical and administrative information system, ORBIS, displayed for the first time at the Healthcare Computing 2007 conference, in the United Kingdom.

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