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CAD vendors hope FDA hearings will clear approval bottleneck
By Cynthia E. Keen
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today began a two-day set of hearings that could result in major changes to the way the agency regulates computer-aided detection (CAD) technology. Industry experts are hoping the hearings will clear up a logjam of delayed regulatory applications for CAD software that has been building since last year.
March 3, 2008
Court ruling protects medical device makers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device manufacturers in the U.S. can't be held liable for damages from patients injured by their devices if the products followed federal regulatory standards, according to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling this week.
February 21, 2008
European Parliament finalizes delay of EMF directive
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
In a final decision, the European Parliament postponed until 2012 the implementation of a controversial directive that could have drastically restricted the use of MRI, according to a coalition of European MRI advocates.
February 20, 2008
Covidien settles Medrad litigation
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Covidien and interventional technology provider Medrad have inked a deal to settle their pending litigation.
February 13, 2008
Boston Scientific loses patent suit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A U.S. District Court jury in Marshall, TX, has awarded Dr. Bruce Saffran damages of $431 million in a patent infringement suit against Boston Scientific.
February 12, 2008
DatCard files suit against Codonics
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Software developer DatCard Systems of Irvine, CA, has filed suit in a U.S. federal court to prevent Codonics of Middleburg Heights, OH, from infringing on a newly awarded patent.
January 22, 2008
NSF lawsuit filed against Tyco, Mallinckrodt
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A lawsuit has been filed against Covidien (formerly Tyco Healthcare Group) and its Mallinckrodt subsidiary of Hazelwood, MO, on behalf of a patient who asserts that she developed nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) after being administered the MRI contrast agent OptiMark.
January 15, 2008
Stark, raving mad? Physicians say Maryland's self-referral laws too broad
By Kate Madden Yee
To the dismay of Maryland orthopedists, urologists, and emergency surgeons, a trial court in that state has upheld a self-referral law that virtually out-Starks the Stark law by banning nonradiologists from referring for in-office imaging. Nonradiologists argue that Maryland is overstepping the federal rule and that the law diminishes patient care by taking clinical procedures that are part of standard practice out of the hands of specialty doctors.
January 14, 2008
Siemens loses first round in Saint-Gobain suit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A federal court in Wilmington, DE, has rebuffed Siemens Medical Solutions of Malvern, PA, in its legal bid to halt Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, a division of Cie. de Saint-Gobain of France, from marketing scintillation crystals used in PET scanners.
January 13, 2008
Hologic files suit against SenoRx
Women's imaging vendor Hologic of Bedford, MA, and its wholly owned subsidiary, Cytyc, have filed a lawsuit against Aliso Viejo, CA-based SenoRx.
January 10, 2008
Cordis wins heart stent patent appeal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis of Miami Lakes, FL, has won an appeal in its patent battle with Medtronic and Boston Scientific over who owns heart stent patents, Reuters reported.
January 10, 2008
Dilon, Naviscan settle patent dispute
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Scintimammography developer Dilon Technologies of Newport News, VA, and PET developer Naviscan PET Systems of San Diego have buried the hatchet in a dispute over patent technologies.
December 20, 2007
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