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Mentor to distribute Best brachytherapy seeds
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Prostate brachytherapy provider Mentor has signed a nonexclusive distribution agreement with Best Medical of Springfield, VA.
January 7, 2003
Fonar Stand-Up MRI sales grow in 2002
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI vendor Fonar sold 22 of its Stand-Up MRI systems in 2002, and signed contracts for an additional nine scanners.
January 7, 2003
Pleural effusion common in post-op x-rays of coronary bypass patients
By Shalmali Pal
More than 2,000 coronary artery bypass graft procedures are performed yearly at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, and at least 40% of patients who undergo CABG develop a pleural effusion in the immediate postoperative period.
January 7, 2003
Time to take stock in your future
By Brian Casey
The New Year is traditionally a time for personal assessment and evaluation, an opportunity to review progress toward long-term goals. What better time, then, to evaluate your salary package to see if you’re being adequately compensated?
January 7, 2003
GE buys Ambassador Medical
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Medical Systems has acquired a supplier of pre-owned ultrasound equipment: Ambassador Medical of Carmel, IN.
January 6, 2003
Peregrine, Schering team up
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals has granted a worldwide exclusive license to German pharmaceutical giant Schering.
January 6, 2003
In a screening population, virtual colonoscopy finds significant polyps
By Eric Barnes
Will virtual colonoscopy perform as well in a screening population as it does in high-risk patients? At the 2002 RSNA meeting, Dr. Michael Macari presented one of the first studies to evaluate the CT technique in subjects with a lower incidence of disease.
January 6, 2003
Mentor, HPG renew deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Prostate brachytherapy provider Mentor and group purchasing organization HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) have renewed their relationship.
January 5, 2003
Guidant/Cook deal in doubt
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The bid by Guidant to buy fellow interventional device firm Cook appears to be unraveling due to disappointing results for a drug-eluting stent that Cook is developing.
January 2, 2003
EP MedSystems files for CE Mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Cardiac electrophysiology developer EP MedSystems has submitted its ViewMate intracardiac ultrasound catheter system for CE Mark regulatory approval in Europe.
January 2, 2003
Cytogen regains rights to PMSA therapy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Pharmaceutical firm Cytogen has regained the rights to ex vivo prostate cancer immunotherapy using prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) following the expiration of its agreement with Northwest Biotherapeutics of Bothell, WA.
January 2, 2003
Self-referred screening patients are far less likely to find abnormal results
By Eric Barnes
Radiologists play a key role in steering the right patients into CT screening -- and the wrong patients away from it -- according to researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles.
January 2, 2003
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