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Radiology is the medical specialty directing medical imaging technologies to diagnose and sometimes treat diseases. Originally it was the aspect of medical science dealing with the medical use of electromagnetic energy emitted by X-ray machines or other such radiation devices for the purpose of obtaining visual information as part of medical imaging.

Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Magellan Health Services

Magellan Health Services, Inc. today reported net income of $31.0 million, or $.88 per diluted common share, and segment profit of $64.5 million for the third quarter of 2009. The Company also increased guidance for the full year to the upper half of its previously disclosed range.

30 Oct 2009

Researchers report preclinical results of a novel PET biomarker designed to detect malignant breast tumors

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, supported in part by NuView Life Sciences, have published an article in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine reporting preclinical results of a novel PET biomarker designed to selectively detect malignant breast tumors.

30 Oct 2009

Thrombolytic therapy can reduce stroke disability if given within the first few hours

Routing stroke patients directly to designated stroke centres - instead of taking them to the nearest hospital - dramatically increased access to a key clot-busting drug that can reduce stroke disability if given within the first few hours of symptoms, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.

30 Oct 2009

New center to provide variety of medical services for people in and around Skid Row opened

The Weingart Center Association, JWCH Institute and the County of Los Angeles announced today the opening of the Center for Community Health Downtown Los Angeles, a state-of-the-art medical facility that provides integrated care to the more than 18,000 homeless and low-income people in and around Skid Row.

30 Oct 2009

WaveMark CIMS implemented at St. Joseph’s Hospital

WaveMark, Inc., a leading provider of real-time inventory management (RTIM) solutions for high value medical products, and St. Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta, GA today announced the use of WaveMark’s hospital inventory management solution, WaveMark CIMS™, by St. Joseph’s Hospital to manage its high value, specialty inventory. St. Joseph’s will use WaveMark’s point of use RTIM technology to track physician preference items in its Cardiac Cath and Electrophysiology (EP) labs.

29 Oct 2009

Residents can serve a vital role in promoting CT colonography awareness

Residents can serve a vital role in educating Congress, the medical community, and the general public regarding the efficacy of cutting-edge technologies like CT colonography (CTC) as well as the importance of radiologists' training and education and the role that radiologists serve in the provision of quality health care, according to an article published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

29 Oct 2009

Inpatient diagnostic imaging exams achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates, shows study

Hospitals that make greater use of inpatient diagnostic imaging exams achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates with little or no impact on costs, according to a peer-reviewed study of more than 1 million patient outcomes in more than 100 hospitals nationwide published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

29 Oct 2009

NeuroVasx cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System: first procedure in Spain performed

NeuroVasx, Inc., a medical device company that develops technologies for the treatment of hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke, announced today that the first procedure in Spain utilizing its cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System was performed in Madrid. cPAX received CE Mark earlier this year.

28 Oct 2009

NMHIC appointed as New Mexico's official health information exchange

Maggie Gunter, PhD, president of the New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC), announced today that the organization has been appointed as the state's official health information exchange (HIE) by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.

28 Oct 2009

Catheter-directed therapy safe and effective for treating acute pulmonary embolism

William Kuo, MD, was the on-call interventional radiologist one Friday night three years ago when he received a call from the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. He was asked to attend to a 62-year-old woman who had collapsed at home and was rushed to the emergency room with massive blood clots in her lungs.

28 Oct 2009

Debilitating muscle weakness can linger long after hospital discharge

After decades of focusing on the management of respiratory failure, circulatory shock and severe infections that lead to extended stays in hospital intensive care units, critical care researchers are increasingly turning attention to what they believe is a treatable complication developed by many who spend days or weeks confined to an ICU bed: debilitating muscle weakness that can linger long after hospital discharge.

28 Oct 2009

New integrated technology system to be implemented in Jordan's healthcare system

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in a public demonstration today hosted by His Majesty King Abdullah II, provided a stunning look at the new integrated healthcare technology system being implemented for the people of Jordan in the coming year.

28 Oct 2009

URI scientists discover a new and effective approach for treating cancerous tumor

Two University of Rhode Island associate professors, biophysicists Yana Reshetnyak and Oleg Andreev, have discovered a technology that can detect cancerous tumors and deliver treatment to them without the harming the healthy cells surrounding them, thereby significantly reducing side effects.

27 Oct 2009

Discovery of AVM can relieve pain due to chronic back pain and neurologic deficits

The discovery of a multi-level arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in the thoracic epidural space can now bring relief to potentially thousands of suffers of chronic thoracic pain and progressive myelopothy. Identified as thoracic epidural arteriovenous malformation (T.E.A.M.), this particular AMV primarily affects younger women ages 20 to 40.

27 Oct 2009

CWRU grants licensing agreement to Bioptigen for FDOCT technology

Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center have granted to Bioptigen, of Research Triangle Park, N.C ., an exclusive intellectual property licensing agreement for Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FDOCT), an imaging technology developed from research at the university's Department of Biomedical Engineering.

27 Oct 2009

Ziehm NaviPort interface and BrainLAB Fluoro 3D surgical navigation software improves surgical procedures

Ziehm Imaging and BrainLAB have extended their cooperation to assist surgeons in the intra-operative guidance of pedicle screw and hardware placement during surgical trauma and spinal instrumentation procedures.

27 Oct 2009

National Cancer Institute awards Johns Hopkins $14.8 million for cancer research

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded $14.8 million from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings of the growth and spread of cancer.

26 Oct 2009

St. Rose Hospital Cardiologists implements CVIS from McKesson

St. Rose Hospital of Hayward, Calif., is accelerating report turnaround times and providing cardiologists with secure remote access to echocardiogram and EKG reports, thanks to a new cardiovascular information solution (CVIS) from McKesson.

26 Oct 2009

Axolotl launches Elysium Image Exchange

Axolotl Corp., the nationwide leader in health information exchange (HIE) solutions and services, today announced the immediate availability of Elysium Image Exchange, a state-of-the-art technology integrated with Axolotl’s Elysium® Exchange suite of products. Powered by Axolotl’s partner eHealth Global Technologies, Inc. (eHGT), Elysium Image Exchange enables the electronic sharing of diagnostic quality medical images between health care providers participating in an HIE.

26 Oct 2009

EMG and NCS reports performed by 'non-prequalified' physicians are found to be unreliable

In a recent study of workers’ compensation injury cases, Electromyography (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Studies (NCSs), which were performed by physicians who were not evaluated and pre-determined to meet a certain level of quality, were discovered to be highly unreliable.

26 Oct 2009

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Third-quarter fiscal 2009 results announced by Magellan Health Services

Researchers report preclinical results of a novel PET biomarker designed to detect malignant breast tumors

Thrombolytic therapy can reduce stroke disability if given within the first few hours

New center to provide variety of medical services for people in and around Skid Row opened

WaveMark CIMS implemented at St. Joseph’s Hospital

Residents can serve a vital role in promoting CT colonography awareness

Inpatient diagnostic imaging exams achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates, shows study

NeuroVasx cPAX Aneurysm Treatment System: first procedure in Spain performed

NMHIC appointed as New Mexico's official health information exchange

Catheter-directed therapy safe and effective for treating acute pulmonary embolism

Debilitating muscle weakness can linger long after hospital discharge

New integrated technology system to be implemented in Jordan's healthcare system

URI scientists discover a new and effective approach for treating cancerous tumor

Discovery of AVM can relieve pain due to chronic back pain and neurologic deficits

CWRU grants licensing agreement to Bioptigen for FDOCT technology

Ziehm NaviPort interface and BrainLAB Fluoro 3D surgical navigation software improves surgical procedures

National Cancer Institute awards Johns Hopkins $14.8 million for cancer research

St. Rose Hospital Cardiologists implements CVIS from McKesson

Axolotl launches Elysium Image Exchange

EMG and NCS reports performed by 'non-prequalified' physicians are found to be unreliable

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