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Bard sales climb in Q2
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional firm C.R. Bard reported second-quarter net sales of $354.2 million, up 12% compared with $317.5 million posted in the second quarter of 2002.
July 16, 2003
Voxar signs Wake
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three-dimensional-software developer Voxar has added Wake Radiology of Winston-Salem, NC, to its client list.
July 15, 2003
Advanced Magnetics turns Q3 profit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Contrast agent developer Advanced Magnetics reported fiscal third-quarter revenues of $1.4 million, up 25.8% compared with the $1.1 million reported in the same period last year.
July 15, 2003
Introgen agent shows promise in radiotherapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Biopharmaceutical developer Introgen Therapeutics reported results from a preclinical study that its INGN 241 mda-7 therapeutic can be effectively combined with radiation therapy and shows promise as a possible treatment for lung cancer.
July 15, 2003
GE acquires Thales Ultrasound Probes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Medical Systems has finalized the acquisition of Thales Ultrasound Probes, a division of the Thales Group of Paris.
July 15, 2003
Biophan coating reduces MRI artifacts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A poster presentation at this week’s International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine conference in Toronto reported that a thin-film nanomagnetic particle-coating technology developed by Biophan Technologies of West Henrietta, NY, can help to reduce the image artifacts typically caused by metallic medical devices.
July 15, 2003
Web-based teaching tool covers multiple modalities
By Shalmali Pal
Swiss and British imaging specialists have created a prototype for an Internet-based nuclear medicine tutorial program. MedTML is based on an open-standard software platform (XML) and supports the separation of layout and design from content.
July 15, 2003
Researchers use diffusion imaging to trace connections in human brain
By Kate Madden Yee
Investigators from the U.K. explore the connections between the human thalamus and cortex using diffusion MRI data and what they call a probabilistic tractography algorithm.
July 15, 2003
Colon screening’s star turn pays off
By Brian Casey
When Today show host Katie Couric underwent colonoscopy on national television, some U.S. healthcare providers saw colon screening rates among the general population increase by up to 20% in the following months
July 15, 2003
E-Z-EM, Berlex to partner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Virtual colonoscopy and contrast developer E-Z-EM of Lake Success, NY, has inked a deal with Berlex Laboratories, a U.S. subsidiary of Berlin-based Schering, for Berlex’s x-ray diagnostic contrast agent Ultravist (iopromide).
July 14, 2003
fMRI used to predict post-op language problems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee are using fMRI to predict which patients undergoing brain surgery to treat epilepsy will develop postoperative language-function problems.
July 14, 2003
iCAD to debut low-volume CAD system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection (CAD) developer iCAD of Nashua, NH, is scheduled to begin shipping its new iQ CAD system, designed for clinics that perform fewer than 10-15 mammography procedures per day.
July 14, 2003
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