Jan. 31, 2007 — Boston Scientific Corp. days it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to expand its PolarCath Peripheral Dilatation System offering to include a 100-mm balloon. The system is used to restore blood flow and reduce the risk of amputation in patients with critical limb ischemia (severe blockages in the arteries below the knee), or femoropopliteal blockage, a result of peripheral artery disease.
The new, 100-mm balloon is available in both 0.014-inch and 0.035-inch diameters. The PolarCath System also offers balloon lengths of 20, 40, 60 and 80 mm.

January 30, 2007 - Varian Medical Systems announced today that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for patient position monitoring capabilities that have been added to the company's RPM respiratory gating system used to synchronize imaging and radiation therapy treatment with a patient's respiratory cycle, enabling clinicians to achieve better results when treating diseases.

With expertise in managing the imaging workflow and working with DICOM, PACS vendors are serious contenders to provide enterprise archive management middleware to manage data objects and information around PACS. Enterprise PACS implementations generated over three quarters of the total radiology PACS market revenues in 2005, signaling the decisive expansion of the traditional boundaries of PACS.

January 30, 2007 - iCAD, Inc., a provider of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) solutions for the early identification of cancer, today announced the availability of its latest innovation - TotalLook version 8.0, a solution for film-to-digital conversion as the market adoption of digital mammography rapidly increases.

January 30, 2007 - Cook Children's Medical Center will soon house the combined IMRIS Intraoperative MRI (iMRI) operating room/diagnostic room, enabling surgeons to view high-resolution patient scans during brain surgery leading to improved patient
outcomes.
"Cook Children's pediatric neuroscience department annually cares for
approximately 16,000 children, making the program one of the largest in the

The first researchers to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of a large group of babies soon after birth found a small amount of bleeding in and around the brains of one in four babies who were delivered vaginally. “It seems that a normal vaginal birth can cause these small bleeds,” said lead author John H. Gilmore, M.D., from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Source: RSNA. "Intracranial Hemorrhage in Asymptomatic Neonates: Prevalence on MR Images and Relationship to Obstetric and Neonatal Risk Factors (Looney, et al.)"

January 30, 2007 - A novel type of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is reportedly highly accurate in identifying blockages in the arteries that carry blood to the brain, according to a study in the February issue of Radiology.

Jan. 29, 2007 - Empi, a global market leader in non-invasive, non-systemic pain management and physical rehabilitation for more than 30 years, today announced that the FDA has granted clearance to market the Empi Select TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) device.

Jan. 29, 2007 - Hundreds of people still without health insurance in areas hard-hit by Hurricane Katrina lined up before dawn for the start of a weeklong event offering free medical care.

Bundled up against the chilly wind, people began arriving at 2 a.m. Sunday outside the tents and doublewide trailers offering free care in eastern New Orleans. By the time the first 50 had been called into the registration tent, they numbered in the hundreds.

JANUARY 29, 2007 - A review published in SOARD, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, summarizes the results of four studies that compared the mortality death rates of people who underwent bariatric surgery to a controlled community population.

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