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Vale do Javari: One of the world's last wild places
By Brian Casey
The Vale do Javari is an isolated region in the Amazon jungle of Brazil, covering about 20.7 million acres between the Ituí and Itaquaí rivers along the border with Peru and Colombia. The region is home to more than 50 tribal cultures, some of whom have never been contacted by the outside world -- and many of whom who hope that it stays that way.
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CBCN seeks input for rural breast cancer community Web site
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian Breast Cancer Network plans to launch a Web site for women and men in rural, remote locations who have breast cancer.
March 31, 2004
CMS issues interim final rule on self-referral
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the second phase of its final regulations addressing physician referrals to entities with which they have a financial relationship.
March 24, 2004
RITA claims reimbursement momentum for RFA
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The newly published policies bring the total number of states with established BCBS positive written reimbursement policies to 24, RITA Medical said.
March 3, 2004
OmniSonics adds $43 million in financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Vascular ultrasound developer OmniSonics Medical Technologies of Wilmington, MA, has closed a round of financing worth an aggregate total of $43 million.
March 2, 2004
Breast cancer patients show characteristics of acute stress disorder
By Shalmali Pal
Women with a history of breast cancer are more likely to suffer from a stress response syndrome that could adversely affect their willingness to participate in routine mammography or follow-up after treatment, according to a study by mental health professionals.
March 2, 2004
RealTimeImage to sell off graphics unit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-streaming technology developer RealTimeImage has signed a letter of intent to sell its graphic arts division to Kodak Polychrome Graphics.
January 28, 2004
CMS adopts NPI as unique identifier
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it has adopted the National Provider Identifier (NPI) as the standard unique health identifier for healthcare providers to use in filing and processing healthcare claims and other transactions, according to the agency.
January 22, 2004
New Web site planned for young breast cancer patients
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Vancouver-based Canadian Breast Cancer Network (CBCN) will launch a Web site next month for young women with breast cancer.
January 14, 2004
New financing for U-Systems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Full-field breast ultrasound developer U-Systems has secured $25.6 million in additional venture capital funding. Siemens Venture Capital participated in this financing round, which was led by Sycamore Venture Partners of Princeton, NJ.
December 21, 2003
Emergency physicians are ordering more x-ray and US but reading less
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
CHICAGO - An eight-year retrospective study of U.S. Medicare reimbursement data shows an increase in the volume of ultrasound and conventional radiographic studies in the emergency department and a decrease in the number of exams performed by emergency medicine physicians, according to radiology researchers from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
December 1, 2003
Nonradiologists outpace radiologists in skyrocketing use of ultrasound
By Erik L. Ridley
CHICAGO - Ultrasound utilization by cardiologists grew more than three times as rapidly as use by radiologists between 1993 and 2001, according to research from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
November 30, 2003
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