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SonoSite files patent suit against Zonare
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Compact-ultrasound developer SonoSite of Bothell, WA, reported that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Mountain View, CA-based Zonare Medical Systems in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern Division.
February 21, 2007
Advanced Magnetics, Cytogen settle suit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
MRI contrast developer Advanced Magnetics said it has settled a lawsuit with biopharmaceutical firm Cytogen of Princeton, NJ.
February 15, 2007
New CMS rules put the brakes on IDTFs
By Jonathan S. Batchelor
In a sweeping bid to cut Medicare fraud, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued new rules scheduled to go into effect February 26 that raise the bar for sites applying to be designated as an independent diagnostic testing facility (IDTF). The new compliance standards, issued late last month as a change request, could dramatically change how IDTFs conduct their operations.
February 12, 2007
Siemens settles Cook County case
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions reported that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois to settle allegations made in an indictment filed in January 2006.
February 8, 2007
BrainLab wins patent victory
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided therapy firm BrainLab of Munich, Germany, reported that the U.S. District Court in Denver dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit earlier this month that was brought by interventional technology firm Medtronic of Minneapolis and that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld the decision.
February 7, 2007
Illinois AG's lawsuit may chill equipment leasing deals
Legal and imaging industry experts agreed that a whistleblower lawsuit against several Chicago-area imaging centers could spur other states to investigate a business practice that is controversial, yet common, among radiologists and referring physicians.
January 23, 2007
CARE bill reintroduced in U.S. House
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
After failing to pass the U.S. House of Representatives prior to the end of the last Congress, a bill designed to ensure credentialing of radiologic and radiation therapy technologists was reintroduced on January 19.
January 22, 2007
Illinois AG joins leasing suit against MRI centers
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Illinois attorney general has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against several imaging center companies in the Chicago area, charging them with paying kickbacks to referring doctors under cover of phony equipment leasing arrangements.
January 17, 2007
Conor wins British patent victory
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Conor Medsystems reported that the Court of Appeal in the U.K. unanimously upheld the decision of the High Court of Justice to revoke the U.K. portion of European Patent 0 706 376 B1 to Angiotech Pharmaceuticals.
January 15, 2007
Peregrine establishes Chinese subsidiary, sues CTL
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals has established a wholly foreign-owned enterprise in the People's Republic of China.
January 11, 2007
CT distinguishes asbestos lung damage from smoking impairment
By Eric Barnes
A new study finds that CT can apportion the blame for lung function impairment between patients' asbestos exposure and their smoking-related emphysema. The preliminary results will require further validation, but the authors believe the results are clear enough to have medicolegal implications, inasmuch as doctors have traditionally found it difficult until now to differentiate between the two common causes of lung impairment.
January 9, 2007
Radiologists should discuss cardiac implant disposal with patients
By Edward Susman
Tens of thousands of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators are placed inside patients on an annual basis by multispecialty teams. The physicians involved in putting in pacemakers and defibrillators -- and that includes the radiologist -- must follow through with a plan for removing them, according to a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
December 31, 2006
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