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GE nets FDA nod for SPECT system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Brivo NM615 single-head nuclear medicine gamma camera.
January 8, 2012
Long-term cancer study raises controversial question
By Cynthia E. Keen
Which end point of a clinical trial comparing cancer treatments is more important: disease-free or long-term survival? This question and others were raised in an article and editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine on the long-term outcomes of Hodgkin's lymphoma patients.
January 8, 2012
MRI of limited use in C-spine imaging of whiplash patients
By Wayne Forrest
Swiss researchers have concluded that 1.5-tesla MRI provides "only limited evidence" of specific changes to the cervical spine and surrounding tissues in patients with acute symptomatic whiplash injury, according to a study published online December 20 in Radiology.
January 8, 2012
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Medical isotope bill advances in Congress
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2011 is now in the U.S. House of Representatives following U.S. Senate passage of the bill in November.
January 5, 2012
ACR submits MPFS feedback to CMS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The American College of Radiology (ACR) has submitted official comments to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the final rule of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS).
January 5, 2012
Study of DRA's impact paints a complex picture
By Kate Madden Yee
The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) took a meat cleaver to reimbursement at U.S. outpatient imaging facilities when it went into effect in 2006. DRA opponents predicted that the law would force private imaging centers to close, shift imaging to less-convenient hospital settings, and reduce access to seniors. But has that really happened?
January 5, 2012
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FDA clears NinePoint's OCT system
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
NinePoint Medical announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its high-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology.
January 4, 2012
MedAssets makes payment for Broadlane
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Group purchasing organization MedAssets has paid the $120.1 million deferred purchase consideration due on January 4, 2012, to the former owners of the Broadlane Group as part of the acquisition completed in November 2010.
January 4, 2012
Bracco to return CardioGen PET tracer to market in Q1
By Wayne Forrest
Contrast agent developer Bracco Diagnostics anticipates that shipments of its CardioGen-82 cardiac PET radiopharmaceutical will resume by the end of the first quarter, after the company voluntarily recalled the product six months ago.
January 4, 2012
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MarketStat #68: Image intensifier vs. flat-panel angiography systems
Overall, 47% of the installed angiography systems in 150-plus bed hospitals have flat-panel digital detectors, and 53% have image intensifiers.
January 4, 2012
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Carestream taps new executives
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Carestream Health has appointed Barry Canipe as chief financial officer and has promoted Jianqing Bennett to vice president of global medical sales and services.
January 3, 2012
Alberta orders imaging test review
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The provincial government of Alberta, Canada, has ordered a review of all diagnostic imaging and pathology testing in the province after errors surfaced at three separate hospitals since November, according to an article published in the Globe and Mail.
January 2, 2012
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