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FDA clears Bayer's Xofigo
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the use of radium-223 dichloride to treat patients who have castration-resistant prostate cancer with symptomatic bone metastases and no known visceral metastatic disease.
May 15, 2013
Bard pays $48.2M in whistleblower lawsuit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developer C. R. Bard has agreed to pay the U.S. government $48.2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that its urological division and ProSeed subsidiary paid doctors and hospitals kickbacks to entice them to order Bard's products at inflated prices to treat Medicare patients with prostate cancer.
May 15, 2013
Lancet: MRI offers alternative to conventional autopsies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Minimally invasive autopsies, using a combination of MRI and other techniques such as blood tests, can determine the cause of death in fetuses and babies nearly as well as conventional autopsies, researchers concluded in a new study published in Lancet.
May 15, 2013
GE to ship MRI protocol for patients with metal implants
By Wayne Forrest
GE Healthcare on May 15 said it plans to begin shipping MAVRIC SL, a combination of MRI acquisition protocol and postprocessing software designed to enhance the accuracy of soft-tissue and bone imaging in patients with metal implants that could make them unsuited for MRI with conventional techniques.
May 15, 2013
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SCCT announces Toshiba award finalists
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) has announced finalists for the seventh annual Toshiba Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Toshiba America Medical Systems.
May 15, 2013
Fonar posts Q3 revenue increase
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI vendor Fonar has reported double-digit growth in the company's third fiscal quarter.
May 14, 2013
Hosted PACS Solutions wins Md. contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Hosted PACS Solutions announced it has won a contract with a Maryland radiology practice.
May 14, 2013
International Isotopes' Q1 revenues fall
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mixed revenues in each of its business segments adversely affected radioisotope manufacturer International Isotopes' financials for the first quarter of 2013.
May 14, 2013
Los Alamos advances Mo-99 production process
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
For the first time, Los Alamos National Laboratory has recycled irradiated uranium fuel to produce molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) with virtually no loss in Mo-99 yield or uranium recovery.
May 14, 2013
Simultaneous PET/MRI most accurate for image alignment
By Wayne Forrest
In a comparison of hybrid imaging modalities, simultaneous whole-body PET/MRI is more accurate than retrospectively fused PET and MR images in abdominal organs and better than PET/CT in the urinary bladder, according to a study published online May 8 in Radiology.
May 14, 2013
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Analogic plans restructuring
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging firm Analogic said it will restructure to streamline its business following its acquisition of ultrasound vendor Ultrasonix.
May 13, 2013
BridgeHead adds VNA installation in Wis.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Healthcare data management firm BridgeHead Software has received an order from Holy Family Memorial in Manitowoc County, WI.
May 13, 2013
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