Archive for August, 2006

Radiology – HEALTH CARE: RiverView opens a new clinic

Friday, August 18th, 2006

HEALTH CARE: RiverView opens a new clinic
Grand Forks Herald – There also will be an opportunity to tour the new stereotactic breast biopsy program located in the RiverView Radiology Department. The open house will be held in the new clinic, located in the space that was RiverView’s emergency department on the

Neonatal MRI to Predict Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants
New England Journal of Medicine – C.A.) all in Christchurch, New Zealand; the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (P.J.A., T.E.I.) and the Department of Psychology (K.H.), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and the Department of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Radiology, St

Wellnews: All the news that’s fit
San Diego Union-Tribune – medical care because they are either too big to fit into the scanners or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate. With 64 percent of the U.S. population either overweight or obese, the problem is worsening, a study in Radiology

Forum shuffles hospital services
Vindicator – new Tod will have private rooms with room for patients and their parents, private bathrooms, and easy access to all the hospital’s facilities, including the emergency department, surgical suites, procedural areas, and the pharmacy, labs and radiology

Hospital Opens Second Diagnostic Imaging Center
Voices News – Managed by Tony Ann Marchione, who previously worked at Rye Radiology Associates, and Donald Hulnick, M.D., medical director, the new center provides the latest equipment, including full-field digital mammography, high-field MRI, a multi-slice CT

Nashville imaging company opens Florida joint venture
Nashville Business Journal – Suncoast Radiology will provide professional interpretive services at the facility. OIA partners with hospitals, medical centers and radiology practices to develop and manage outpatient diagnostic imaging centers. The company owns an interest in and

Angiography – Swedish Medical Center In Seattle Enters Heart-Surgery Affiliation With Cleveland Clinic (Medical News Today)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Swedish Medical Center In Seattle Enters Heart-Surgery Affiliation With Cleveland Clinic (Medical News Today)
Swedish Medical Center and ClevelandClinic — an international leader and the top-ranked heart center inAmerica according to U.S. News and World Report — today announced aclinical affiliation in cardiac surgery that will further enhance heartcare offered by the Seattle medical center. [click link for full article]
MR Angiography of the Adamkiewicz Artery and Anterior … – AJNR (subscription)

MR Angiography of the Adamkiewicz Artery and Anterior
AJNR (subscription), IL - Aug 14, 2006
Contrast-enhanced MR angiography was demonstrated to dynamically resolve the Adamkiewicz artery from the anterior radiculomedullary vein in the thoracolumbar

Sirolimus Stents Safe and Effective for Patients With Restenosis
Medscape News – In the 150 patients who completed follow-up angiography, restenosis was seen in 13 (8.7%). Lesion length was an angiographic independent predictor of restenosis (odds ratio, 1.16). Independent clinical predictors of restenosis were diabetes (odds …
Cleveland Clinic to form Seattle link with Swedish (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Cleveland Clinic will begin setting up shop in Seattle, essentially creating the only West Coast outpost for the nation’s leading cardiac surgery and treatment practice.
Multidetector CT scan has limited usefulness in detecting coronary … – Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release)

Multidetector CT scan has limited usefulness in detecting coronary
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release), PA - Aug 16, 2006
health care expenditure in Western countries. Establishing its anatomic diagnosis requires coronary angiography, a procedure …

Sirolimus Stents Safe and Effective for Patients With Restenosis
Medscape News – In the 150 patients who completed follow-up angiography, restenosis was seen in 13 (8.7%). Lesion length was an angiographic independent predictor of restenosis (odds ratio, 1.16). Independent clinical predictors of restenosis were diabetes (odds …

Ultrasound – ‘Smart Pigs’ Keep Oil Pipelines Clean

Friday, August 18th, 2006

‘Smart Pigs’ Keep Oil Pipelines Clean
WINK TV – Instead, BP had relied mostly on exterior ultrasound to monitor the pipes’ integrity, believing the risk of corrosion was low because they carried market-ready crude or processed oil that had been stripped of harmful water, gas, and solids. BP now

David Bruce to be president, CEO of EP MedSystems
Philadelphia Inquirer – Bruce had spent nine years at Acuson Corp., a Mountain View, Calif., provider of medical diagnostic ultrasound systems, and in the ultrasound division of Siemens AG. Acuson is a unit of Siemens. Shares in EP MedSystems were up 14 cents, or 9 percent

Veterinary clinic opens in Phillips
Phillips Bee – Among the services provided by the three veterinarians are comprehensive exams, digital dental and body X-rays, in-house blood testing, ultrasound, surgery, behavior appointments, acupuncture, dentistry and chemotherapy. “Chemotherapy offers great

Health calendar
Quad-Cities Times – Ultrasound screening for blocked arteries, aortic aneurysm and hardening of the arteries, Tuesday, Aug. 22, Northgate Place, 1815 E. Kimberly Road, Davenport. Appointments begin at 9 a.m. Cost is $109 for complete vascular screening or $129 for

Federal DOT head tours Alaska oil field
Belleville News-Democrat – Pipeline regulators allowed the company to keep operations going in the western half, which has undergone thousands of recent ultrasound inspections. But BP will have to strip insulation from the pipeline there and continue to conduct ultrasonic

CT Scan – A sister’s gift “She gave me my life back” (Floyd Press)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

A sister’s gift “She gave me my life back” (Floyd Press)
Donna Marshall (right) and Pauline Horton are part of a close-knit family who will do anything for each other. Photo – Wanda Combs Donna Marshall and Pauline Horton share a special bond. The sisters have always been close, but two months ago something happened that forever changed their lives.
Probe sought into defunct CT scan at GMCH – Times of India

Probe sought into defunct CT scan at GMCH
Times of India, India - Jul 20, 2006
CHANDIGARH: Patients visiting the Government Medical College and Hospital have been put to major inconvenience as the CT scan machine is defunct for the past

Society of women work to fight breast cancer in Michiana
WNDU – We had prayer chains going everywhere asking for that miracle and when I had the CT scan on the brain, everything was gone,” said Christine. To become a member of the Secret Sisters Society, call the Women’s Task Force of St. Joseph Regional Medical …
A word in the patient’s ear (Daily News)
Dr. Dennis J. Aloysius (Family Practitioner, visiting Lecturer PGIM, a past President of the SLMA and a member of the HealthWatch Medical Advisory Panel) observed last week that “A word in the patient’s ear is the first line of treatment.”
Multidetector CT scan has limited usefulness in detecting coronary … – Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release)

Multidetector CT scan has limited usefulness in detecting coronary
Therapeutics Daily (subscription) (press release), PA - Aug 16, 2006
2006 AUG 16 – (NewsRx.com) — Use of the 16-row multidetector computed tomography (CT) scan to detect narrowing of coronary arteries may result in a high

Radiology – Radiology center grows to meet increasing demand (Northwest Explorer)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Radiology center grows to meet increasing demand (Northwest Explorer)
August 9, 2006 – For the July 27 grand opening of the company’s new La Cholla Center for Women’s Imaging, Radiology Ltd. threw itself a party.
NightHawk Radiology Holdings Earns Ranking on BusinessWeek's BW … – Yahoo! News (press release)

NightHawk Radiology Holdings Earns Ranking on BusinessWeek's BW
Yahoo! News (press release) - Aug 17, 2006
COUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NightHawk Radiology Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NHWK – News) was named to BusinessWeek's
NightHawk Radiology Holdings Earns Ranking on BusinessWeek's BW PR Newswire (press release)
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Lincoln Journal Star – Upon finding out she was assigned to the hall normally reserved for the honor students, she said, I like to have fun and party and stuff, the radiology major said. They like to study. I m really p_____ off. Neihardt s like, the …
NightHawk Radiology Holdings Earns Ranking on BusinessWeek’s BW Web 20 (SYS-CON Media)
NightHawk Radiology Holdings, Inc. was named to BusinessWeek’s BW Web 20 this week. BusinessWeek’s BW Web 20 is a portfolio of blue-chip internet stocks compiled quarterly by BusinessWeek editors. Other companies on BusinessWeek’s BW Web 20 include Google, eBay, Yahoo! and Ameritrade.
Radiology center grows to meet increasing demand – Northwest Explorer

Radiology center grows to meet increasing demand
Northwest Explorer, AZ - Aug 9, 2006
August 9, 2006 – For the July 27 grand opening of the company's new La Cholla Center for Women's Imaging, Radiology Ltd. threw itself a party. Radiology Ltd.

Angiography – Cleveland Clinic to form Seattle link with Swedish (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Cleveland Clinic to form Seattle link with Swedish (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The Cleveland Clinic will begin setting up shop in Seattle, essentially creating the only West Coast outpost for the nation’s leading cardiac surgery and treatment practice.
New ACC appropriateness criteria guide use of CT, MR for cardiac … – TheHeart.Org

New ACC appropriateness criteria guide use of CT, MR for cardiac
TheHeart.Org, NY - Aug 11, 2006
scoring indications included evaluation of intra- and extracardiac structures using cardiac CT or, in the case of suspected coronary anomalies, CT angiography.

Stroke Prevention
WOWT – In cerebral angiography, a special dye is injected into the arteries. X-rays are used to take images and follow the dye through the carotid arteries. By watching the dye, doctors can determine the amount of narrowing inside the artery. For minor …
Swedish Medical Center in Seattle Enters Heart-Surgery Affiliation With Cleveland Clinic (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Swedish Medical Center and Cleveland Clinic — an international leader and the top-ranked heart center in America according to U.S. News and World Report — today announced a clinical affiliation in cardiac surgery that will further enhance heart care offered by the Seattle medical center.
CT Technique Could Obviate Angiography in Heart Recipients – MedPage Today

CT Technique Could Obviate Angiography in Heart Recipients
MedPage Today, NJ - Aug 8, 2006
CLEVELAND, Aug. 8 — For heart transplant patients, a multidectector spiral CT image could substitute for the annual coronary angiography they need.

Stroke Prevention
WOWT – In cerebral angiography, a special dye is injected into the arteries. X-rays are used to take images and follow the dye through the carotid arteries. By watching the dye, doctors can determine the amount of narrowing inside the artery. For minor …