Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) has announced that it will open 10 cancer treatment centers by June 2011 to meet the growing need for diagnostic and treatment cancer facilities in rural India. The majority of the financing for the $45 million investment is being provided by GE Healthcare South Asia and Varian Medical Systems as part of a strategic partnership with KIMS.  

Philips Healthcare is collaborating with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) and RAD-AID International on a project to improve access to medical imaging services for people in underserved countries, the company announced.  

Lantheus Medical Imaging has won a multiyear contract for its Definity ultrasound contrast agent with an Indian pharmaceutical company, the vendor said.  

Imaging Diagnostic Systems (IDSI) has installed its CT Laser Mammography system at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.  

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has supplied Fortis International Oncology Centre in Noida, India, with its Trilogy medical linear accelerator.  

Results of a new study indicate that whole-body MRI is an excellent way to work up newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. Researchers from India found that MRI led to a change in treatment in nearly half of patients, and it also found metastases in some patients before symptoms appeared.  

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has approved the sale of substantially all assets of Spheris to speech recognition and transcription technology provider MedQuist and its majority shareholder CBay.  

Radiotherapy firm Accuray has set up a sales, marketing, and service force to handle the company's products in India.  

Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare is expanding its manufacturing operations in Bangalore, India, to enable more customized products for local use.  

Color Doppler ultrasound indices can predict disease-free survival of breast cancer patients during neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to research published in the European Journal of Radiology.  

PACS vendor Rogan-Delft has received its first Zillion PACS order from India.  

Carestream Health will install its Kodak 9500 3D dental imaging system at Diwanchand Imaging Center in Delhi, India.  

Image processing and PACS firm OR Technology has received an order for a portable digital radiography system and its dicomPACS software from the Centre of Ambulance Services in Dubai.  

Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems has installed its RapidArc radiotherapy system at Yashoda Cancer Institute in Hyderabad, India.  

PACS vendor Ashva Technologies and Telerad Tech are partnering to integrate Ashva's Edge PACS software into T2's SmartRIS.  

Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai, India, has gone live with Euromed Networks' MedSpeech, which features speech recognition software from Nuance Communications.