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Expedition brings radiology to heart of Amazon

By Brian Casey

It's a jungle out there for radiology -- literally. In a story that could have been ripped from an Indiana Jones movie, a Brazilian expedition is set to depart next week for the darkest reaches of the Amazon rainforest. The intrepid team will use medical imaging technology to find and diagnose diseases that are threatening some of the most remote indigenous peoples on the planet.

April 1, 2004

New wireless network options offer benefits, despite security concerns

By Erik L. Ridley

Healthcare providers are increasingly demanding mobile computing devices for use as decision-support tools. And wireless networking is a fundamental enabling technology for mobile computing. For example, it gives users the ability to show images to patients in a more intimate fashion than a standard PC, according to Dr. Paul Chang, director of radiology informatics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

April 1, 2004

Proxima receives clearance for new MammoSite catheters

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radiation-therapy developer Proxima Therapeutics of Alpharetta, GA, said it has received Food and Drug Administration marketing clearance for elliptical-shaped balloon catheters for its MammoSite catheter-based radiation treatment device.

March 31, 2004

Guidant completes stent trial enrollment

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Interventional device developer Guidant has completed enrollment in Spirit First, a clinical trial evaluating the Indianapolis-based firm's second drug-eluting stent system for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

March 31, 2004

Boston Life Sciences gets FDA OK for Altropane trial

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Pharmaceutical firm Boston Life Sciences has reached an agreement with the Food and Drug Administration for the phase III clinical trial of its radioimaging agent Altropane.

March 31, 2004

Prioritizing data with information life cycle management

Robert Terdeman of Rogers Communications shares how his Toronto group deployed an information life cycle management strategy, building a single information repository that serves multiple users and seamlessly matches information to the most appropriate storage resources.

March 31, 2004