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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
Agfa expands Impax CV, settles with Acacia
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Agfa HealthCare has expanded the capabilities of its Impax Cardiovascular (Impax CV) with software for cardiology outcomes management from Cedaron Medical, the company announced.
July 16, 2009
U.S. House healthcare reform bill moves ahead
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Three committees in the U.S. House of Representatives have formally introduced healthcare reform legislation that would increase the equipment utilization rate for advanced diagnostic imaging services such as MRI, CT, nuclear medicine, and PET from its current 50% rate to 75%.
July 14, 2009
Court grants Orbotech motion in GE suit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has dismissed an amended complaint filed against Orbotech by GE Healthcare.
July 6, 2009
House bill would close Stark in-office loophole
By Kate Madden Yee
Legislation has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives that would close a loophole in federal law that enables physicians to self-refer patients for imaging studies as long as the exams are performed in their own offices.
July 1, 2009
VA radiation oncologist admits mistakes
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The radiation oncologist accused of botching dozens of brachytherapy procedures at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) admitted to Congress that he sometimes missed his target when implanting radioactive seeds, according to a report by the New York Times.
June 30, 2009
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