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.
June 16, 2008 - Mindray Medical International Ltd. received FDA 510(k) clearance for its DC-3 color ultrasound system ...
June 16, 2008 – Siemens introduced IQ•SPECT, a works-in-progress that is the newest Symbia feature that enables a ...
Providing exceptional cardiovascular care for patients to achieve the best possible outcomes is the number one goal for ...
June 13, 2008 - MEDRAD signed a distribution and co-marketing partnership agreement with PETNET Solutions, a fully owned ...
June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the ...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to diagnose and treat patients sooner and with more accuracy is key to winning the war against heart disease.
Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) is growing in popularity among cardiologists because it provides the ability ...
June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children ...
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.
When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it ...
When performing radiofrequency (RF) ablation to treat cardiac arrhythmia, medical professionals must balance the safety ...
June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual ...
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.
June 12, 2008 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD) ...
Change Healthcare Cardiology Hemodynamics is an integrated hemodynamic monitoring system for monitoring vital signs and ...
June 12, 2008 - Sorin Group closed the sale of its peripheral stent business to Datascope Corp., divesting its noncore ...
In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ ...
June 12, 2008 – The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (DES) in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has yielded positive interim results, trial investigators reported at the 2008 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting last week.