Archive for March, 2006

Radiology – Pregnant women should not ignore breast cancer symptoms

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Pregnant women should not ignore breast cancer symptoms
EurekAlert – Ultrasound provides a safe and accurate method of detecting breast cancers in pregnant women, as well as assessing response to chemotherapy, according to a study appearing in the April issue of Radiology. Investigators at the M. D. Anderson Cancer

Books : Eat Right 4 Your Type: The Individualized Diet Solution to
Science Daily – If you’ve ever wondered why the latest fad diet doesn’t work for you well, there are lots of reasons, mostly the fact that it’s a fad diet. But it could also be that you’re the wrong blood type for the kinds of foods the diet recommends. Peter D

Millennium Milestones
Index-Journal – South Carolina s first known Native Americans were Paleo-Indians who inhabited this region some 11,000 years ago, perhaps 5,000 or more years after their ancestors arrived from the Asian continent over a land bridge across the Bering Straits. These

All a doctor should be
Arizona Daily Sun – People who are giving in nature often act without regard for reward, but it is nice to be recognized by others for your hard work and caring. Such is the case with Dr. Kenneth Salce, 52, who is so well-regarded by staff at Flagstaff Medical Center

Time to look at health-care options?
Des Moines Business Record – Iowans are no strangers to the challenges presented by the cost of health insurance. Ask anyone who works for a small business, and they ll tell you coverage is hard to come by. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, just 59 percent of small

Angiography – Tests Miss Clogs in Women (RedNova)

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Tests Miss Clogs in Women (RedNova)
WASHINGTON – Conventional tests won’t uncover heart disease in as many as 3 million U.S. women – because instead of the usual bulky clogs in main arteries, these women have a hard-to-spot buildup in smaller blood vessels, researchers said Tuesday.
Bio-Imaging Technologies Signs Collaborative Agreement with LUMC … – Genetic Engineering News

Bio-Imaging Technologies Signs Collaborative Agreement with LUMC
Genetic Engineering News, NY - Mar 30, 2006
LKEB will develop clinical software for the quantitative analysis of CT angiography ("CTA") for Bio-Imaging's exclusive use in clinical trials.

The posterior communicating arteries in the patients with sudden …
BioMed Central – Sixteen patients with SD (47.7 +/- 13.3 years; range, 24 – 76 years; nine males) were evaluated with intracranial MRA as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head. The depiction of Pcom on MRA was correlated with the laterality of SD. One …
Siemens Serves up Innovations at SIR 2006 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
TORONTO—-March 30, 2006–Siemens Medical Solutions unveils its latest innovations for the interventional suite at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology , March 30 through April 4, 2006 in Toronto.
MicroVention and Terumo Corporation Announce Completion of Merger – PR Newswire (press release)

MicroVention and Terumo Corporation Announce Completion of Merger
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Mar 30, 2006
Terumo has the largest share of the world markets for angiography guide wires and perfusion products and is a leading developer of interventional products

Cardiology – Medical building opens today (The Arizona Republic)

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Medical building opens today (The Arizona Republic)
Southwest Valley residents won’t have to stray too far from home if they need to get an X-ray or a physical. The Avondale Integrated Medical Services building, part of a three-facility medical campus, opens today.
Speedy Angioplasty Urged For More Heart Attack Patients – All American Patriots (press release)

Speedy Angioplasty Urged For More Heart Attack Patients
All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - 17 hours ago
when patients receive primary PCI, only a minority receive the treatment within the timeframe recommended by American College of Cardiology/American Heart

SBMC expands heart program with cath lab
Shelby Reporter – Cardiac services at Shelby Baptist Medical Center continue to grow, providing critical access close to home for residents of Shelby County and surrounding areas. The facility recently received a certificate of need for a third heart catheterization …
Heart patients receive care boost (BBC News)
Heart patients in Norfolk can receive a life-saving procedure from a local hospital.
DGAP-News: Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. – Miscellaneous – Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste

DGAP-News: Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. – Miscellaneous
Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste, Germany - 13 hours ago
today the appointment of an independent cardiovascular clinical advisory board comprised of internationally renowned experts in cardiology and cardiovascular

Ultrasound – Time to get tough on rogue doctors

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Time to get tough on rogue doctors
Daily Telegraph – A quick thought following the reports (see my story in the print edition today) that for first time an Indian doctor has been jailed for using ultrasound to determine the sex of a child and then offer to arrange to abort it. By chance, I was chatting

Doctor in India Jailed for Telling Sex of a Fetus
New York Times – NEW DELHI, March 29 An Indian doctor has been jailed for two years for disclosing the sex of a fetus to its parents. It was the first instance of a physician jailed under legislation intended to stop the abortion of unwanted girls. An Indian law

CHASING YOUTH: Cheating the Clock
Las Vegas Review Journal – Dr. George H. Taylor applies ultrasound gel to the face of Florence Romero in preparation for a photo facial, which is used to treat sun-damaged skin. Photos by John Gurzinski . A photo-facial device is applied to Florence Romero’s sun-damaged skin

INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
Fort Worth Star-Telegram – BRITAIN — Lawmakers approved a measure requiring Britons applying for passports to get an identity card or be entered into a computer database, paving the way for the country’s first national ID since World War II. Prime Minister Tony Blair says the

Doctor’s lawyer denies charges
Cincinnati Enquirer – At her arrest on Saturday, Dr. Marianna Vardaka appeared to be an unstable, vengeful woman, police said. She possibly was under the influence of drugs when she allegedly stormed into her married ex-lover’s Deerfield Township home bent on collecting

Mammography – Speaker provides insight on training available online (The Times)

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Speaker provides insight on training available online (The Times)
Gone are the days when the only option for enhancing your career or skills meant spending hours, weeks or months in a classroom. Now such training can come with the click of mouse.
The misplaced hype over digital mammography – City Pulse

The misplaced hype over digital mammography
City Pulse, MI - Mar 22, 2006
If there s any screening test we tend to go ga-ga over, it s mammography. So in September, when the New England Journal of Medicine

Rochester Business Journal
Rochester Business Journal – Eastman Kodak Co. has landed a three-year contract from Consorta Inc. for its secure e-mail services, officials said today. Under the terms of the agreement, Consorta will make Kodak e-mail services available to more than 500 acute and extended-care …
Ultrasound Spots Breast Cancer in Pregnant Women (HealthCentral.com)
TUESDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) — Ultrasound is a safe and accurate way to detect breast cancer in pregnant women and to assess their response to chemotherapy , U.S. researchers report.
The misplaced hype over digital mammography – City Pulse

The misplaced hype over digital mammography
City Pulse, MI - Mar 22, 2006
If there s any screening test we tend to go ga-ga over, it s mammography. So in September, when the New England Journal of Medicine

Philips Medical – New ideas to ease into old age

Friday, March 31st, 2006

New ideas to ease into old age
Herald Tribune – Tony Knopp, a 58-year-old administrator with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says he is ready to retire “yesterday.” With $1 million in pensions and savings combined, he and his wife want to spend their golden years vacationing in Florida

You choose town leaders on Tuesday
Andover Townsman – Andover residents will have the choice next week of sticking with their current leaders or choosing as many as one new selectman and two new School Committee members. Challengers Ann Weld and write-in candidate Robert Coffill will try to unseat

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Explained
Middle East Medical (Bahrain) – CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a technique designed to temporarily circulate oxygenated blood through the body of a person whose heart has stopped or has an erratic rhythm unable to sustain circulation. CPR primes the heart

China to become world’s second largest medical equipment market in 5
Xinhua News Agency – BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhuanet)– China is expected to replace Japan as the world’s second largest market for medical equipment in the next five to seven years, experts said. Sources from a scientific forum on medical equipment that convened in Beijing

TMH to purchase CT scanner
Craig Daily Press – Deeming it “cost-effective,” The Memorial Hospital board of trustees unanimously approved Wednesday purchasing a computed tomography scanner rather than continuing to lease the machine. In other news, the board of trustees: Approved, 7-0

BIOLASE Expands Board of Directors and Appoints Robert E. Grant as
Market Wire – SAN CLEMENTE, CA — (MARKET WIRE) — 03/30/2006 — BIOLASE Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI ), a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and markets lasers and related products focused on technologies for improved applications and