Archive for June, 2006

Mammography – Community Calendar (LeRoy Pennysaver & News)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Community Calendar (LeRoy Pennysaver & News)
JULY 5, 12 & 19 Cornell Cooperative Extension of Genesee County
Cancer Society orders digital mammography – Cayman Net News

Cancer Society orders digital mammography
Cayman Net News, Cayman Islands - Jun 15, 2006
The Cayman Islands Cancer Society announced that it has raised the necessary US $400,000 for a state-of-the-art digital mammography machine, which has been put

Mammograms found to raise cancer risks
Centre Daily – So we traditionally recommend that high-risk women — especially mutation carriers — start screening with mammography at 25. “This (study) calls into question, is it possible by starting so young we might increase their risk?” MRI could eventually …
Saint Agnes to Open $1.3m Diagnostic Breast Center By Fall (RedNova)
By Jeff St. John, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Jun. 28–Saint Agnes Medical Center plans to celebrate today the construction of a $1.3 million Diagnostic Breast Center, part of a larger expansion of its mammography and breast cancer treatment programs.
Fort Walton Beach Medical Center mammography system goes digital – Walton Sun

Fort Walton Beach Medical Center mammography system goes digital
Walton Sun, FL - Jun 26, 2006
FORT WALTON BEACH Fort Walton Beach Medical Center has purchased the digital mammography system, Senographe 2000D made by GE Medical Systems.

New renovations and updated technology at Midwest Open Imaging …
Blue Springs Examiner – MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography, DEXA bone densitometry and x-ray. Patients who re-visit us this month will notice we recently completed a renovation of our patient areas. New artwork, a fresh coat of paint, a relaxing water fountain and live …

Philips Medical – Callidus Software Announces New Strategic Services Offerings (RedNova)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Callidus Software Announces New Strategic Services Offerings (RedNova)
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Callidus Software Inc. , the leader in Enterprise Incentive Management (EIM), today announced a new strategic services program offering, Workflow Solutions.
Philips Medical Systems nuclear medicine advancements – Jobwerx


Jobwerx
Philips Medical Systems nuclear medicine advancements
Jobwerx, WA - Jun 5, 2006
New clinical data on time-of-flight system and an enhanced workflow management solution strengthen Philips Medical imaging technologies and services for

Cisco, Philips, Emergin Partner On Patient Monitoring App
TechWeb – Cisco Systems Inc., Philips Medical Systems, and Emergin Inc. have partnered to rollout Cisco Clinical Connection Suite Patient Monitoring application, the companies said in a joint statement. The Cisco Clinical Connection Suite Patient Monitoring …
Ultralife Batteries to Present at the C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
NEWARK, N.Y.—-June 28, 2006–Ultralife Batteries, Inc. will be presenting on July 11, 2006 at the C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Emerging Growth Opportunities Conference taking place at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City.
Philips to acquire MRI medical sys, components and accessories mfg – Jobwerx

Philips to acquire MRI medical sys, components and accessories mfg
Jobwerx, WA - Jun 16, 2006
the integration process. He will report to Steve Rusckowski, CEO of Philips Medical Imaging Systems. Magnetic Resonance Imaging

CardioDynamics Second Quarter 2006 Conference Call – Correction to …
WTNH.com – Partners include GE Healthcare and Philips Medical Systems. For additional information, please refer to the company’s Web site at www.cdic.com. CONTACT: Rhonda Rhyne, President of CardioDynamics, +1-800-778-4825, Ext. 1013, or rrhyne@cdic.com Web …

Medical Imaging – Emageon Signs New Agreement with MidMichigan Health

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Emageon Signs New Agreement with MidMichigan Health
dBusinessNews.com – We share a vision of a completely integrated medical imaging solution that will extend across MidMichigan Health’s entire enterprise. We believe MidMichigan Health is well prepared to take full advantage of our enterprise content management

IBM Boosts Blades With Cell Processor
TechWeb – Its multi-core architecture and high-speed communications capabilities deliver supercomputer capabilities for high performance workloads in digital media, medical imaging, defense, aerospace and communications. The Cell BE, developed with Sony and

Airline baggage gets boost
SignOn San Diego – Steve Hill of GE Security, which manufactures the machines, said the equipment uses computed tomography, the same technology used in medical imaging, to perform its analysis. During yesterday’s media tour, pieces of baggage pulled out of line all

Stealth radar system sees through trees, walls — undetected
PhysOrg – Eric K. Walton, senior research scientist in Ohio State’s ElectroScience Laboratory, said that with further development the technology could even be used for medical imaging. He explained why using random noise makes the radar system invisible

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Engineer Live – video over DSL phone lines, all the areas that TI is targeting. We expect to expand our architecture and software expertise into other markets that are very allied to the current one such as video surveillance, military systems and medical imaging

Angiography – Two Technologies Together Spot Clogged Vessels (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

Two Technologies Together Spot Clogged Vessels (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
THURSDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) — Using two non-surgical scanning technologies together greatly improves doctors’ ability to spot clogged coronary arteries, a new study shows.
Stress perfusion and delayed-enhancement MRI accurate for CAD … – TheHeart.Org

Stress perfusion and delayed-enhancement MRI accurate for CAD
TheHeart.Org, NY - 6 hours ago
artery disease or those suspected of having coronary disease, according to the results of a new study [1]. Compared with coronary angiography, the combined MR

Mitral Valve Prolapse
WTNH.com – Combining a new cardiac MRI technique called “stress first-pass perfusion MRI” with another method, the “delayed contrast enhancement technique,” works better than the gold standard, invasive coronary angiography, according to a study in the July …
EPIX Pharmaceuticals Files Appeal With FDA Regarding Vasovist(TM) Approvable Letters; Company Remains Committed To (RedNova)
EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPIX), a developer of innovative pharmaceuticals for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which recently announced a definitive agreement to merge with Predix Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., today announced that it has submitted a formal appeal to the U.S.
Stress perfusion and delayed-enhancement MRI accurate for CAD … – TheHeart.Org

Stress perfusion and delayed-enhancement MRI accurate for CAD
TheHeart.Org, NY - 6 hours ago
artery disease or those suspected of having coronary disease, according to the results of a new study [1]. Compared with coronary angiography, the combined MR