Ultrasound: Page 262

Breast ultrasound performs well in wake of density laws
By Kate Madden Yee
Technologist-performed handheld screening breast ultrasound -- offered to women in the general population with dense breasts -- can help detect small mammographically occult breast cancers, although overall positive predictive value is low, according to a study published online June 21 in Radiology.
June 24, 2012
Novation nets contrast agent deals
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Group purchasing organization Novation has signed supply agreements with Bracco, GE Healthcare, and Lantheus Medical Imaging for the companies' contrast agents.
June 21, 2012
StatVideo debuts tele-EchoBox
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Video conferencing developer StatVideo has introduced tele-EchoBox, an echocardiography telemedicine system.
June 20, 2012
Philips fulfills Sparq order
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has sold six Sparq ultrasound systems to Yale-New Haven Hospital, a 1,008-bed tertiary medical center in New Haven, CT.
June 20, 2012
Digisonics adds clients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics has signed Answer Medical Solutions in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Pediatric Cardiology Associates in Houston as customers.
June 19, 2012
China color ultrasound market heats up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Thanks to extensive reform to healthcare services and improved local supplier offerings, demand for color ultrasound is surging in China, according to a new report from market research firm InMedica.
June 18, 2012
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Report ties keepsake ultrasound to fetal gender tests in Canada
By Rosemary Frei
An investigative report has caused a stir in Canada after it revealed that keepsake ultrasound clinics are willing to provide the gender of fetuses before 20 weeks of gestation. This is early enough for women to request an abortion and feeds into the phenomenon of female feticide in some immigrant communities in Canada.
June 14, 2012
VentriPoint adds Mayo Clinic to clinical trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Echocardiography technology developer VentriPoint said that the Mayo Clinic will participate in a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the firm's VMS ultrasound diagnostic tool in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
June 13, 2012
Digisonics wins Ill. CVIS contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound image management firm Digisonics announced it has won a contract with an Illinois health system for its cardiovascular information system (CVIS).
June 12, 2012
Echo screening detects more rheumatic heart disease
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Routing screening with echocardiography can find three times as many cases of rheumatic heart disease compared to clinical evaluation, according to a study published in Circulation.
June 11, 2012
Toshiba and United Medical partner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Toshiba America Medical Systems announced that ultrasound equipment distributor United Medical Instruments will sell Toshiba's ultrasound systems to private physician offices and clinics in the U.S.
June 11, 2012
FDA issues update on ultrasound gel recall
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released an update on the risk of bacterial infection from Other-Sonic generic ultrasound transmission gel manufactured by Pharmaceutical Innovations.
June 10, 2012
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