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Diagnosis murder: Imaging as a psycholegal defense tool
If the current crop of TV shows is any indication, medical imaging is primed to replace forensics as the cool crime-fighting science. In real-life crime dramas, imaging is being deployed as a defense tool for those looking to back up a plea of legal insanity. AuntMinnie.com investigates the use of scanning as a psycholegal defense tool and as a major component of the emerging field of neuroethics.
June 28, 2006
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Orthocrat adds Montefiore to customer roster
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Orthopedic template and surgical planning technology developer Orthocrat of Petach-Tikva, Israel, said its TraumaCad software has been selected by Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
June 27, 2006
Medtronic completes Endeavor enrollments
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic reported that it has completed patient enrollment in its Endeavor IV clinical study.
June 27, 2006
Pain processing centers in brain show decreased activity in self-mutilators
By Shalmali Pal
Using functional MRI, European mental health specialists have demonstrated how patients with borderline personality disorder neurologically adapt to pain thresholds and processing, allowing them to down-regulate the emotional components of the brain that monitor pain and continue to engage in self-injury.
June 27, 2006
GE inks Asian osteoporosis deal
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed a deal with global dairy company Fonterra to promote bone health awareness in Asia.
June 25, 2006
AuntMinnie.com Orthopedic Insider
By Shalmali Pal
June 25, 2006
Trauma Pod brings robotic ICU to the battlefield
By Eric Barnes
An unmanned mobile ICU called Trauma Pod, complete with a CT scanner, may one day be treating wounded soldiers in remote battlefields. The U.S. Department of Defense is currently developing this high-tech robotic surgical unit with a consortium of 12 firms, with the first phase of the project based on existing technologies. Click on the videos to glimpse the future -- and the present -- of robotic surgery.
June 25, 2006
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GE signs deal with UltraSPECT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare has signed an agreement with nuclear medicine vendor UltraSPECT of Haifa, Israel, to market that company's Xpress.cardiac software for improving image quality and scanning times on gamma cameras.
June 21, 2006
NMPI sets sights on mobile SPECT
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Mobile imaging firm Nuclear Medicine Professionals (NMPI) reported that it is partnering with Mid-Atlantic Imaging of Columbia, MD, to deliver a fleet of portable cardiac SPECT cameras by the end of this year.
June 21, 2006
Cordis Cypher Select Plus nets CE Mark
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Biologics Delivery Systems Group, Cordis reported that its third-generation drug-eluting stent, the Cypher Select Plus, has received CE Mark approval.
June 21, 2006
Healthworks, Toshiba partner on educational initiative
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiology staffing provider Healthworks said it has signed a deal with Toshiba America Medical Systems to provide the Tustin, CA-based developer with its educational programs and resources in invasive and noninvasive cardiology, electrophysiology, and radiology.
June 21, 2006
Molecular Insight starts phase I neuroendocrine cancer trial
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals has begun a phase I clinical trial of its Azedra molecular imaging pharmaceutical for the treatment of neuroendocrine tumors such as carcinoid, pheochromocytoma, and neuroblastoma.
June 21, 2006
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