June 9, 2010 - At the company's annual shareholder meeting today, Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. (TMSC), a member of the Toshiba group of companies, announced Satoshi Tsunakawa will be appointed president and CEO of the company.

June 8, 2010 - Since August of 2009, Lantheus Medical Imaging has been exploring options to obtain additional molybdenum (Mo-99), which is used to make technetium-99m, an radioisotope used in nuclear medicine imaging.

June 8, 2010 – A recent study found a potential new molecular imaging agent combined with post-scan image processing technology could result in crisper pictures of the heart. The results were revealed yesterday at the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

June 4, 2010 – One-year mortality rates were very low for 1,038 high-risk patients, many of whom were too sick to undergo traditional open-heart surgery, who received the Sapien transcatheter heart valve. Results of the SOURCE Registry were presented last week at EuroPCR in Paris.

June 4, 2010 – The first national contract signed for a magnetic resonance imaging angiography (MRA) contrast agent was been signed, making it available to more than 27,000 medical facilities.

June 3, 2010 – Six-month data from the first 45 patients enrolled in the second stage of a trial for a bioresorbable stent demonstrated strong results. Abbott's bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) showed a low (4.4 percent) rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and no blood clots.