Clinical News: Page 2162

Siemens launches OB ultrasound software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Healthcare has released its syngo.fourSight Workplace obstetrical ultrasound software.
July 8, 2010
Access to VC promoted as tool to increase screening
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Echoing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's call for additional colon cancer screening tools, advocates for virtual colonoscopy are calling for increased support for noninvasive procedures such as VC to help increase colon cancer screening rates.
July 8, 2010
ev3 to settle lawsuits from Covidien deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device firm ev3 has agreed to settle shareholder lawsuits aimed at blocking the company's $2.6 billion buyout by healthcare technology firm Covidien.
July 8, 2010
Active surveillance advised for elderly kidney cancer patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
The best treatment for patients older than 75 who are diagnosed with localized renal cell carcinoma may be active surveillance, according to urologists at the Cleveland Clinic, whose recommendations were reported in the July 1 issue of Cancer.
July 8, 2010
High cardiac imaging doses seen in U.S. population
By Eric Barnes
A study of nearly 100,000 U.S. patients who underwent cardiac imaging found that the procedures were associated with "substantial" doses of ionizing radiation in potentially large numbers of patients, according to results published online Thursday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
July 8, 2010
MRI tops x-ray for ped ankle fractures
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Young children with isolated lateral ankle injuries are often diagnosed with Salter-Harris fractures of the distal fibula, even if x-ray examinations do not reveal a fracture. But an MRI scan may change the diagnosis to a sprain, according to specialists at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
July 8, 2010
FDG-PET/CT may help quantify Crohn's disease severity
By Wayne Forrest
The use of maximum standardized uptake values from FDG-PET/CT scans may be a reliable, objective method for quantifying the activity and severity of Crohn's disease, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
July 8, 2010
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IBA wins Swedish contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiopharmaceutical firm Ion Beam Applications has won a contract with a proton therapy center in Sweden.
July 7, 2010
Carestream nabs Premier contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has won a contract to supply its DRX-1 wireless digital radiography system to group purchasing organization Premier Healthcare.
July 7, 2010
Lantheus, MDS Nordion sign Mo-99 deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Lantheus Medical Imaging has signed a new molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) manufacturing and supply agreement with nuclear medicine firm MDS Nordion.
July 7, 2010
SNM: Long-term Mo-99 problems remain
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Although the recommencement of Canada's National Research Universal reactor in Chalk River later this month is good news for short-term relief of the molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) isotope shortage, it won't solve ongoing production and supply issues that are causing the crisis, according to SNM of Reston, VA.
July 7, 2010
SIR defines interventional radiology
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) has issued a statement that defines interventional radiology and stresses its importance in medical care for patients.
July 7, 2010
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