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Medtronic gets nod for Micro-Driver
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Interventional technology firm Medtronic has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for its Micro-Driver coronary stent system.
April 30, 2006
Cedara, Swissray join forces
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian medical imaging software developer Cedara Software of Mississauga, Ontario, and digital radiography (DR) firm Swissray International have inked an agreement.
April 30, 2006
Expert Medic debuts HIT package for sports medicine
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Expert Medic, an electronic recordkeeping developer based in Pittsburgh, has unveiled a demonstration healthcare information technology (HIT) package for sports medicine clinicians, organizations, and athletes.
April 27, 2006
RamSoft launches new image management product
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Canadian radiology informatics developer RamSoft of Toronto debuted its new full practice and image management product, RamSoft One, at this week's Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) meeting in Austin, TX.
April 27, 2006
Siemens to buy Diagnostic Products
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Multimodality vendor Siemens Medical Solutions and Diagnostic Products Corporation (DPC) of Los Angeles have signed an agreement for Siemens to acquire DPC, an immunodiagnostics firm, for $1.86 billion.
April 27, 2006
Philips inks EDDA deal, finishes Witt buy
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
AUSTIN, TX - Philips Medical Systems has signed an agreement for CAD software with EDDA Technology of Princeton, NJ, and finalized its acquisition of cardiology image and information management firm Witt Biomedical of Melbourne, FL.
April 27, 2006
Targeted angiography precludes unintentional embolization during TACE
By Shalmali Pal
Using a "superselective" angiography procedure, Korean interventionalists were able to reduce hepatic injuries during transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and metastatic liver disease.
April 27, 2006
GE gets 510(k) for wide-bore CT scanners
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Healthcare said it has received FDA clearance for a new family of wide-bore, 16-slice CT systems designed for radiation oncology and radiology use.
April 26, 2006
Brain stem lesion on MRI bodes ill for comatose head trauma patients
By Shalmali Pal
SAN FRANCISCO - Damage to the brain stem after a traumatic head injury is likely to be fatal, according to an MRI study presented this week at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting.
April 26, 2006
Accuray reports growth in CyberKnife spine surgery
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Image-guided radiosurgery developer Accuray of Sunnyvale, CA, claimed that spinal tumor treatments with its CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery system have grown more than 75% since the introduction of the firm's Xsight spine tracking system last year.
April 25, 2006
European nuclear medicine market shows limited growth
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
An estimated 5.4 million diagnostic nuclear medicine patient studies were performed in Western Europe in 2005, a negligible increase from 2004, according to a new study published by healthcare consultants Medical Options of London.
April 24, 2006
CTA equivalent to angiography for detecting brain aneurysms
By Eric Barnes
SAN FRANCISCO - One of the largest studies to date has also produced some of the highest sensitivities for the detection of ischemic stroke with CT angiography. In the study from the New Jersey Medical School, multidetector CT angiography (MDCTA) was all but equivalent to invasive catheter angiography for the detection of cerebral aneurysms in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage.
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