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Congress eyes safety of VA prostate brachytherapy: Part 1
By Cynthia E. Keen
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has suspended prostate brachytherapy programs at nearly half of the VA medical centers performing the procedure, VA representatives told members of U.S. Congress last month in hearings held to investigate allegations of shoddy work at a VA facility in Philadelphia.
August 5, 2009
Self-referral amendment doesn't make the cut in House reform bill
By Kate Madden Yee
A version of the healthcare reform bill passed by a U.S. House of Representatives committee last week does not include a provision that would ban physician in-office self-referral.
August 2, 2009
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Suspended Canadian radiologist: 'This is a modern-day lynching'
By Kate Madden Yee
For Dr. Darius Tsatsi, a South Africa-educated radiologist, landing a job at Sunrise Health Region in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2004 was a dream come true. Five years later, that dream has turned into a nightmare.
July 29, 2009
Connecticut bans keepsake US studies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Connecticut this month implemented a law that bans "keepsake" ultrasound studies.
July 28, 2009
Coalition urges Congress to act on Mo-99
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nine professional healthcare and related organizations are urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99).
July 28, 2009
Markey bill would fund U.S. isotope production
By Wayne Forrest
A bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives this month will authorize the U.S. Department of Energy to spend $163 million over the next five years toward the eventual production of molybdenum-99 in the U.S.
July 27, 2009
Medtronic, Abbott bury patent-dispute hatchet
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional device developers Medtronic and Abbott Laboratories have settled their global vascular patent litigation.
July 26, 2009
Hopes dim for House anti-self-referral amendment
By Kate Madden Yee
It's looking increasingly unlikely that the U.S. House of Representatives will add an amendment banning self-referral of imaging services performed in physician offices to healthcare reform legislation under consideration in Congress.
July 23, 2009
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Pharma developer Epix to shut down, liquidate assets
By Brian Casey
Having failed to obtain additional financing or consummate a strategic transaction, drug developer Epix Pharmaceuticals said it is shutting down the company and has terminated nearly all of its employees.
July 22, 2009
Rhode Island puts interventional radiology unit on probation
By Kate Madden Yee
The interventional radiology department at Kent Hospital in Rhode Island has been put on probation by state health authorities after two wrong-site interventional procedures and a state inspection that found signs of what regulators called "pervasive problems" in the unit.
July 20, 2009
Self-referral bill may be folded into health reform
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in June that would close the in-office ancillary service exemption for MRI, CT, and PET allowed under the Stark anti-self-referral law may be added to a healthcare reform package currently under consideration in Congress.
July 20, 2009
Canadian image audit: 70,000 reasons to have a PACS
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A Canadian health region charged with the task of auditing more than 70,000 imaging exams after a doctor's interpretations were called into question is behind schedule, primarily because the images to be audited are all film-screen, according to a Saskatchewan Ministry of Health official.
July 19, 2009
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