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USC School of Medicine to host the first World Congress of Ultrasound in Medical Education

Ultrasound is a valuable tool that allows doctors to diagnose and treat patients quickly and accurately. It's been around for decades, but there has been revolutionary change in the technology in recent years, making the machines smaller, cheaper and smarter.

21 Jan 2011

Eastern Virginia professor says average doctor may be toting new pocket-sized ultrasound machine

Since the Civil War, the stethoscope has been a standard tool of the trade for physicians. Soon, the average doctor may be toting another valuable diagnostic tool: a pocket-sized ultrasound machine.

20 Nov 2010

New 3M Littmann auscultation device can transfer digitally captured patient sounds

With new technology announced today by 3M, a doctor in Minnesota can in real-time detect a murmur in the heart of a child in rural Arizona. Through the new 3M Littmann Scope-to-Scope Tele-Auscultation System, clinicians can transfer digitally captured patient sounds in real-time, from one stethoscope to another, no matter the distance.

16 Nov 2010

Patented cover for stethoscopes will curb hospital-acquired infections

Saints Medical Center is pleased to announce that Richard H. Ma, M.D, chair of its hospitalist department, has received a patent for a lightweight plastic cover for stethoscopes that will dramatically reduce hospital-acquired infections.

9 Nov 2010

Marathon running without proper training can damage the heart

Is running a marathon good for you or can it damage the heart?

25 Oct 2010

Stanford medical school doctor, author teaches 'The art of the physicial'

The New York Times profiles physician, professor and author Dr. Abraham Verghese: "At Stanford, he is on a mission to bring back something he considers a lost art: the physical exam. The old-fashioned touching, looking and listening — the once prized, almost magical skills of the doctor who missed nothing and could swiftly diagnose a peculiar walk, sluggish thyroid or leaky heart valve using just keen eyes, practiced hands and a stethoscope.

13 Oct 2010

First Edition: October 12, 2010

Today's early morning highlights from major news organizations look at a probe of a California hospital chain, the effect that the governors' races around the country will have on the federal health law and a review of prescription purchases that shows more Americans are foregoing their medicines.

12 Oct 2010

Carotid artery stenting increases risk of death, stroke

For patients with blockages in the carotid artery that supplies blood to the brain, carotid artery stenting (a non-surgical treatment) appears to be associated with an increased risk of both short- and long-term adverse outcomes when compared with surgical treatment (carotid endarterectomy), according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies that was posted online today and will appear in the February 2011 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

12 Oct 2010

Zargis enters agreement with OTN for testing of telemedicine stethoscope system

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it has signed an agreement with the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) providing for the delivery and testing of Zargis' award-winning telemedicine stethoscope system.

10 Sep 2010

Acoustic cardiography improves diagnostic accuracy in acute heart failure

It allows them to hear the S3, an abnormal third sound in the heart's rhythm strongly associated with cardiac disease and heart failure. However, the low-frequency, low-pitch sound is notoriously very difficult to hear with a stethoscope alone.It allows them to hear the S3, an abnormal third sound in the heart's rhythm strongly associated with cardiac disease and heart failure. However, the low-frequency, low-pitch sound is notoriously very difficult to hear with a stethoscope alone.

11 Aug 2010

Zargis Medical receives U.S. Army contract to develop investigational device based on Signal-X6 systems

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it received a contract from the U.S. Army to develop an investigational device based on the success of the Signal-X6 telemedicine systems recently deployed to the Army under a separate contract.

22 Jul 2010

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center's new children's outpatient facility named in honor of Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez joined Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center President and CEO Miguel A. Fuentes, Jr., as well as board members, staff and pediatric patients at a ceremony to dedicate a new children's outpatient center named in his honor on Wednesday, June 30, 2010.

3 Jul 2010

Antibacterial lab coats to help prevent spread of disease in hospitals

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 99,000 people die every year from infections acquired while in hospitals. "The goal in our profession is to help cure you not introduce you to another deadly infection," said Dr. Charles Kinder, Heart Rhythm expert and Director of Heart Rhythm Program at Heart Care Centers of Illinois.

21 Jun 2010

Zargis Medical signs exclusive license agreement with Boston-based Stethographics

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Boston-based Stethographics, Inc. providing an exclusive license to patented, FDA-cleared Stethographics lung sounds analysis technology that automatically identifies clinically significant respiratory sounds.

11 Jun 2010

Zargis Medical launches live-streaming version of Telemed platform at ATA

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that it launched the live-streaming version of its ZargisTelemed™ platform at last week's American Telemedicine Association Conference (ATA) in San Antonio, TX. The system allows healthcare professionals to share stethoscope sounds in real-time with colleagues located anywhere in the world through the Internet or a private network. This technology is cleared for sale in the U.S. and 36 other countries.

28 May 2010

Zargis Cardioscan device, 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 recognized with Gold Award

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp., today announced that its Zargis Cardioscan device and the compatible 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 were the joint recipients of a Gold Award on April 29th at The Edison Best New Products Award gala, presented by Discovery Channel in New York City.

15 May 2010

3M Littmann Model 3200 and Zargis Cardioscan software receive red dot design award

3M and Zargis Medical Corp., today announced that the 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 and the Zargis Cardioscan software recently received two industry awards for design and innovation: the "red dot: best of the best" award for product design, given by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, an internationally known design institution located in Essen, Germany, and the Medical Design Excellence Award, sponsored by Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry magazine.

21 Apr 2010

Zargis Cardioscan software and Littmann Electronic Stethoscope win red dot design award

Zargis Medical Corp., a majority-owned subsidiary of Speedus Corp. (Nasdaq: SPDE), today announced that its Zargis Cardioscan™ device and the compatible 3M™ Littmann® Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200 have jointly won a "red dot: best of the best" award as part of the internationally renowned "red dot award: product design 2010" competition.

13 Apr 2010

HCM: Questions to ask

While a jury awarded Tony and Angela Key, $1.6 million following a malpractice trial in the death of their 22-year-old son, Antwoine, a basketball player for Eastern Connecticut State University who collapsed and died during a game in 2005, it is a small measure of solace when a young life is cut short, particularly when the cause - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) - could have been treated, had it been properly diagnosed.

3 Apr 2010

Signostics raises $5M in oversubscribed round of financing from new and existing investors

Signostics Inc., a U.S. and Australian-based medical device company developing revolutionary and affordable palm-sized ultrasound devices, has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed round of financing from new and existing investors. The company has raised a total of $19 million to date.

31 Mar 2010