Clinical News: Page 2940

Geisinger accepts hefty fine for mammo QA failure
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Geisinger Medical Group has been slapped with a $900,000 fine for failing to perform required equipment testing at its Lock Haven mammography clinic, according to a report in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette newspaper (March 2, 2006).
March 2, 2006
Scandinavian studies take mammography to task once again
By Shalmali Pal
Two new papers in the British Medical Journal served up backhanded compliments to mammography. The first acknowledged that breast cancer screening does reduce overall mortality, but noted that it still carries a 10% rate of overdiagnosis. The second study suggested that as noble as public screening programs may be, women are dangerously misinformed as to the benefits and drawbacks of participation.
March 2, 2006
Carefully considered radiotherapy stymies endometrial cancer relapse
By Shalmali Pal
Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. The treatment regimen can include radiation therapy, but its use is fairly recent, and not without some controversy. However, two recent studies, one by researchers in the Netherlands and the other from a group in Utah, both found that radiation therapy reduces the rate of locoregional recurrence, but without an overall survival benefit.
March 2, 2006
Zonare signs Schoelgens
Ultrasound technology developer Zonare Medical Systems has appointed Cornel Schoelgens as managing director Europe.
March 1, 2006
Esaote sales climb in 2005
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Italian ultrasound vendor Esaote reported preliminary 2005 consolidated sales of 249 million euros ($295.8 million U.S.), up 4% compared with 2004 consolidated sales.
March 1, 2006
Merit debuts mini access kit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Disposable products provider Merit Medical Systems has introduced S-MAK, a stiffened dilator mini access kit.
March 1, 2006
Vidar enters DR market
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Film digitizer vendor Vidar Systems has introduced its Vision line of digital radiography systems.
March 1, 2006
Medrad revenues up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast injector technology firm Medrad said it recorded revenues of $411 million in 2005, up 20% from 2004.
March 1, 2006
Mallinckrodt, Siemens offer Premier group buy program
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt and Siemens Medical Solutions are offering a group-buy program to facilities affiliated with group purchasing organization Premier for any of Mallinckrodt's contrast media power delivery systems.
March 1, 2006
U-Systems scores sale
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast ultrasound developer U-Systems has received an order for its SomoVu automated breast ultrasound system from Pueblo Radiology Medical Group in Santa Barbara, CA.
March 1, 2006
MedAssets, Varian renew deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiation therapy firm Varian Medical Systems and group purchasing organization MedAssets Supply Chain Systems have renewed their long-standing agreement.
March 1, 2006
U.S. agencies launch biomarker initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Food and Drug Administration, the National Cancer Institute, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this month announced a new initiative to collaborate on improving the development of cancer therapies and the outcomes for cancer patients through biomarker development and evaluation.
March 1, 2006
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