Jan. 12, 2006 - More than 1,500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or cough medicine, federal health officials reported Thursday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned parents not to give common over-the-counter cold remedies to children under 2 years old without consulting a doctor.

January 11, 2007 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When women and men have lung cancer of the same stage and are given the same treatment, the women are more likely to survive, according to the findings published in the journal of Chest.
Lung cancer "is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women worldwide," Dr. Robert James Cerfolio and colleagues from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, write.

January 12, 20007 - HealthGate has announced that at HIMSS 2007 it will be reconstructing its Collaboration Architect, an online, permissions-based, collaboration/content management/workflow solution specifically designed to meet the needs of teams from multiple disciplines within a healthcare setting.

Jan. 11, 2007 - Fujifilm Medical Systems USA, Inc. announced today the acquisition of cardiology PACS vendor Problem Solving Concepts, Inc., the maker of ProSolv, as Fujifilm extends its enterprise information management approach to include cardiology and to provide a broader array of integrated technology solutions to a rapidly growing market.

Jan. 10, 2007 - The Beaumont Technology Usability Center has entered into a partnership with General Electric Healthcare (GE) to improve the safety and ease of use of the medical technologies produced by the company. The engineers and clinical staff of the Beaumont Technology Usability Center (BTUC) will assist the manufacturer through collaborative product development, usability testing and human factors engineering.

Jan. 10, 2007 - Virginia Hospital Center signed an agreement with Siemens Medical Solutions to implement its workflow-engineered health information solution, Soarian.

Jan. 10, 2007 - The growth in U.S. healthcare spending has declined to its slowest rate since 1999, largely because of a dramatic dip in the growth of prescription drug spending, government economists reported Tuesday.

At the same time, however, households are seeing health-care costs consume more of their personal income, according to the government's annual report on healthcare spending.

Jan. 10, 2007 - In a webcast hosted this morning, Kevin Hobert, president of the Eastman Kodak Health Group, and Robert Le Blanc, managing director, Onex Corporation, announced that Onex plans to change the Kodak Health Group name, yet retain the Kodak brand name in the healthcare industry and all of its existing products.
According to a a company spokesperson, "The Health Group products will retain Kodak branding, however, the company will have a new name once the deal passes regulatory approvals and becomes official. The name of the new company has not yet been determined."

January 9, 2007 - Konica Minolta Medical Imaging announced that it has been awarded contract positions with Amerinet, a group purchasing organization (GPO), for computed radiography, laser imagers and medical imaging films, effective from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2009.

Jan. 10, 2007 – Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it has entered into an agreement to sell its Health Group to Onex Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corporation, in a move that will sharpen Kodak’s strategic focus on consumer and professional imaging and the graphic communications industry.

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