TomoTherapy announced today that it has installed its 100th Hi-Art System in Stratton VA Medical Center, as part of Stratton VA’s efforts to be the first government facility to offer TomoTherapy radiation treatments to U.S. veterans.
The TomoTherapy Hi-Art System is designed to target radiation treatment to the patient’s tumor while helping to limit damage to the surrounding tissues. The system combines on-board CT imaging with conformal radiation therapy to provide precision in the treatment of cancer patients.

TeraRecon Inc. and Commissure Inc. have announced a partnership to integrate and deliver seamless workflow orchestration leveraging advanced visualization tools independent of the combination of modalities, RIS and PACS deployed in a given institution. Commissure's RadWhere Suite drives workflow by presenting a consolidated worklist, launching an appropriate viewer, and collecting the results back to the diagnostic report.

Emageon has added new features to its new Enterprise Visual Medical System (EVMS) System Release 5.30 , and will be displaying them at RSNA 2006.

Varian will feature at RSNA 2006 its new PaxScan line flat-panel digital detectors for the for the cardiac and conventional C-arm market.
Varian introduces the new PaxScan 2520V, a new panel that features a processor with web-based software. The processor's integration of ASIC chip technology delivers 14-bit grayscale contrast resolution.

Emageon Inc. and Vital Images, Inc. today announced that they have signed an integration and reseller agreement where Emageon markets Vital Images’ Vitrea software to its customer base of 600 hospitals nationwide, as part of a strategic move to expand from radiology to other key clinical disciplines, such as cardiology and oncology.

A cholera outbreak has killed four children in northern Nigeria's Kaduna State, and 25 other people have been hospitalised in the past three days, a senior health official said.

Aminu Sabo, the health director in the Chikun region of the state, told Radio Nigeria on Saturday that the disease was caused by drinking contaminated and untreated water.

He said residents of the affected area had resorted to the open wells as a source of drinking water after their taps went dry for weeks.

The nation can’t begin to build a better emergency care system unless hospital leaders commit to making the changes they can, according to participants at an Institute of Medicine workshop in Chicago.

There also is a pressing need for more federal funding for hospital emergency rooms and other elements of the emergency care system, participants said. In June, the IOM issued three reports calling for the creation of a more accountable, coordinated and regionalized system.

Annual screening for lung cancer with CT scan can identify lung cancers at an early curable stage, resulting in high 10-year survival rates, according to results of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP).

Previous trials have demonstrated the "spiral" CT results in the early diagnosis of lung cancer among subjects at increased risk, I-ELCAP investigators report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Until now, however, no one had investigated if early intervention affects the outcome of these patients.

Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. is partnering with Birmingham, AL-based WELLSPOT Medical Clinics Inc. to open free-standing walk-in medical clinics in three Jacksonville, FL area Winn-Dixie stores in mid- November. Current plans call for additional Winn-Dixie/WELLSPOT walk-in clinics in the Jacksonville area early next year, with the partnership expanding into other Winn-Dixie stores with in-store pharmacies in FL, GA, AL, MS and LA through the end of 2007.

A coalition of groups representing prostate cancer patients issued a call this week for Medicare to drop its policy of least costly alternative (LCA) for prostate cancer patients.
The LCA policy encourages providers to give patients the treatment that costs the least where treatments are deemed by the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as interchangeable.

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