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Guidant found to infringe on Cordis patent
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
An independent arbitration panel has issued a preliminary ruling that interventional firm Guidant’s coronary stent system infringes on certain patents held by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Cordis of New Brunswick, NJ.
June 4, 2003
GE adds to CSC contract
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Creative Source Concepts (CSC), a subsidiary of group purchasing organization Joint Purchasing Corporation, has added GE Medical Systems Lunar bone densitometry products to its sole-source contract with the Waukesha, WI-based company.
June 4, 2003
Varian gets 510(k) for VariSeed 7.1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
X-ray and radiation therapy developer Varian Medical Systems has received Food and Drug Administration 510(k) marketing clearance for the 7.1 iteration of VariSeed.
June 4, 2003
GE adds medical records system to Children’s Hospital
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
GE Medical Systems Information Technologies has partnered with Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to integrate an electronic medical record system.
June 3, 2003
CT-guided lung biopsy cuts time, expense, and risk in kids
By Eric Barnes
At the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Anne Marie Cahill and colleagues have used core and aspirational biopsy techniques successfully in dozens of patients.
June 3, 2003
ASCO studies weigh benefits, drawbacks of breast MRI
By Brian Casey
Breast MRI has powerful advantages over x-ray-based mammography, but the technology may not be ready for prime time as a screening tool, at least not in the U.S. That’s the word from a brace of stories we’re featuring from this week’s American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago.
June 3, 2003
German study finds MRI superior for breast cancer detection in high-risk women
By Edward Susman
CHICAGO - German researchers continue to champion MRI screening over conventional mammography for women who are at high risk for breast cancer, according to a presentation Monday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
June 2, 2003
FAST US has value for initial look at unstable trauma
MONTREAL - Focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) is changing emergency room procedure in major trauma centers across the U.S., according to a presentation at the congress of the World Federation for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine.
June 2, 2003
Xoft raises funding
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Breast cancer radiation therapy developer Xoft microTube has received $18 million in a series B round of financing led by Sutter Hill Ventures of Palo Alto, CA.
June 1, 2003
E-Z-EM to close New York and Puerto Rico operations
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
E-Z-EM said it is planning to close manufacturing operations in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico and Westbury, NY, in order to cut costs by shifting production to third-party manufacturers.
June 1, 2003
PET-sonography combination highlights memory differences in schizophrenics
By Tracie L. Thompson
Using a "truly simultaneous" combination of functional transcranial Doppler (fTCD) sonography and H215O PET imaging, German researchers have identified differences in cerebral function that address the working-memory impairment experienced by schizophrenics.
June 1, 2003
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Sonography reveals predictors of lethal skeletal dysplasias
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Correct prenatal diagnosis of skeletal dysplasias presents a medical challenge, according to obstetricians at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evantson, IL.
May 30, 2003
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