Regulatory: Page 146

Utah sends breast density bill to Senate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A committee in the Utah state Senate has approved legislation that would encourage that state's radiologists to include breast density data on mammogram results sent to patients.
January 30, 2012
Manhattan Isotope gets strontium-82 license
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Manhattan Isotope Technology has received approval of its radioactive materials license amendment from the radiation control program at the Texas Department of State Health Services.
January 29, 2012
Medicare fraud charges filed against 5 Pa. cardiologists
By Eric Barnes
A whistleblower suit filed this week in a U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania alleges that cardiologists from two medical practices in the state defrauded Medicare by participating in illegal kickback schemes and performing unnecessary cardiac, vascular, and interventional procedures between 2001 and 2005.
January 23, 2012
ACR urges Congress to block imaging cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) is urging members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to support legislation that would block diagnostic imaging cuts and to include it within a forthcoming, long-term Medicare proposal.
January 23, 2012
InSightec submits PMA for ExAblate
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Focused-ultrasound developer InSightec has submitted a premarket approval (PMA) application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its ExAblate treatment for palliation of pain from bone metastases.
January 23, 2012
Agfa gets FDA nod for CR mammo unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its DX-M digitizer with needle-based detectors.
January 17, 2012
FDA: User error caused CardioGen-82 mishaps
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that the "improper usage" of Bracco Diagnostics' CardioGen-82 cardiac PET radiopharmaceutical caused three patients from two different facilities to have increased levels of radiation in their bodies following PET scans.
January 16, 2012
Health Canada OKs SonoCine system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
SonoCine has received approval by Health Canada to sell and market its automated whole-breast acquisition screening system (AWBASS) as an adjunct to mammography for screening asymptomatic women for breast cancer.
January 16, 2012
Konica Minolta gets FDA nod for digital mammo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Konica Minolta Medical Imaging USA has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Xpress computed radiography full-field digital mammography system.
January 11, 2012
U.S. may allow digital x-ray to monitor black lung in miners
By Eric Barnes
A new proposal from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services would allow lung scans of coal miners to be performed with digital x-ray systems in addition to traditional film-based radiography, according to a proposed rule appearing January 9 in the Federal Register.
January 11, 2012
IAC names new chairman
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) has appointed Dr. Geoffrey Rose as chairman.
January 11, 2012
Riverain gets FDA nod for x-ray software
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Computer-aided detection software developer Riverain Technologies has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its Temporal Comparison software.
January 10, 2012
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