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June 17, 2008 - The FDA has cleared Medtronic Attain StarFix OTW (over-the-wire) lead (Model 4195), an active fixation ...

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June 17, 2008 – Findings indicate that when used with PET technology, BMS747158 demonstrates a favorable radiation ...

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June 17, 2008 - Major complications following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, even among patients least at ...

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June 16, 2008 - To help ensure that more healthcare facilities throughout the U.S. have access to the positron emission ...

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June 16, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said it has exercised its option to acquire the Peripheral Vascular Stent business of ...

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June 16, 2008 – Philips released today its new Philips BrightView XCT, reportedly the first time a flat panel X-ray detector will be used for CT imaging in nuclear medicine, integrating Philips BrightView SPECT in a coplanar design with advanced flat-detector X-ray CT technology to acquire low dose, high resolution CT images and to improve registration confidence.

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June 16, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. received FDA 510(k) clearance for its DC-3 color ultrasound system ...

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June 16, 2008 – Siemens introduced IQ•SPECT, a works-in-progress that is the newest Symbia feature that enables a ...

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June 13, 2008 - MEDRAD signed a distribution and co-marketing partnership agreement with PETNET Solutions, a fully owned ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) have found a niche in the healthcare market since their inception several years ago, and today the devices give doctors and nurses a critical wireless connection to patient records and Web-based databases to aid diagnosis and treatment.

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Feature | Dave Fornell

When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...

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June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the ...

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Feature | Maureen Leahy-Patano

Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...

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Feature | Dave Fornell and Caitlin Hosty

In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...

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