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New therapeutic treatment may provide a potential alternative to bone grafting operation

A study published this week reinforces the potential value of stem cells in repairing major injuries involving the loss of bone structure.

12 Jan 2010

Interest in studying psychology on the rise

"I hope I will be able to touch the lives of people when they most need help and to offer them advice and guidance."

9 Jan 2010

Origin Healthcare Solutions: TCV makes substantial growth equity investment

Origin Healthcare Solutions (“Origin” or the “Company”), an industry leader in healthcare revenue cycle management services and business and clinical intelligence systems, announced that Technology Crossover Ventures (“TCV”) has made a significant growth equity investment in the Company.

9 Jan 2010

Renowned physician highlights digital medical devices at International CES 2010

Dr. Eric J. Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute (WWHI), will join Qualcomm chairman and CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs during Jacobs' keynote at International CES on Friday, January 8, 2010, to highlight a variety of digital medical devices that offer physicians and consumers the ability to remotely monitor fitness, sleep, vital signs and pre-natal activity.

9 Jan 2010

Texas A&M professor studies new medical imaging methods to enhance cancer detection

Thanks to medical imaging techniques such as X-ray CT, ultrasound imaging and MRI, doctors have long been able to see to varying degrees what's going on inside a patient's body, and now a Texas A&M University mathematician is trying to find new and better ways to do so.

9 Jan 2010

Straumann becomes exclusive European distributor of iTero digital impressions system

Cadent, the leading provider of 3-D digital and CAD/CAM solutions for orthodontics and dentistry, announced that it finalized an agreement last month with The Straumann Group, a global leader in regenerative, restorative and replacement dentistry, whereby Straumann will become the exclusive European distributor of the iTero digital impressions system.

9 Jan 2010

Specialized software provides 3D images of individual patients' livers

Odysseus has developed systems to construct 3D images of individual patients' livers, with their tumours or other pathologies, from MRI or CT-scans. The reconstructions can be transmitted to external experts in any location, for consultation in real time just before surgery.

8 Jan 2010

3Sbio submits registrational clinical trial application for Feraheme injection

3SBio Inc., a leading biotechnology company focused on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing biopharmaceutical products primarily in China, today announced that it has submitted its application for a registrational clinical trial to the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration ("SFDA") for Feraheme (ferumoxytol) Injection for intravenous use.

8 Jan 2010

Senate passes Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; WHOA included as provision in health reform bill

The United States Senate, in a historic Christmas Eve vote, passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (H.R. 3590). The Women's Health Office Act (WHOA), SWHR's signature piece of legislation, was included as a provision in the health reform bill, marking a tremendous accomplishment for women's health and women's health research and an advancement of SWHR's advocacy work.

8 Jan 2010

Young men with HIV infection have coronary atherosclerotic plaques: MGH study

A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found that relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection and minimal cardiac risk factors had significantly more coronary atherosclerotic plaques - some involving serious arterial blockage - than did uninfected men with similar cardiovascular risk.

8 Jan 2010

Educational sessions and special workshops highlight advancements in molecular imaging

SNM's Conjoint Mid-Winter Meetings, Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2010, in Albuquerque, N.M., will bring together four scientific meetings under one umbrella. The meeting, which provides attendees with the opportunity to earn up to 25 continuing education credits, will highlight the latest advancements in molecular imaging and nuclear medicine. The educational sessions will conclude with special workshops on nanomedicine and clinical trials.

7 Jan 2010

New outpatient imaging center opened in Waukesha’s Westbrook Health Center

Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) has opened a new outpatient imaging center in Waukesha’s Westbrook Health Center, and has relocated all of its Delafield center services to this new location. The new center allows CDI to expand services to include high-field (1.5T) MRI, multi-slice CT as well as x-ray. In addition, there are plans of offering digital mammography and ultrasound services in early 2010.

6 Jan 2010

AMICAS announces new contract with Asheville Radiology Associates

AMICAS, Inc., a leader in image and information management solutions, today announced a new contract with Asheville Radiology Associates (Asheville, NC). This agreement will allow Asheville Radiology to use AMICAS Financials(TM) for radiology billing, AMICAS Dashboards(TM) for business intelligence, and AMICAS Patient Services((SM)) and AMICAS Payer Services((SM)) for streamlining their radiology billing processes.

6 Jan 2010

Radiologists use new interventional NanoKnife technique to treat lung cancer

Interventional radiologists at BAPTIST HEALTH Medical Center - Little Rock recently became the first physicians in the U.S. to use a new image-guided interventional NanoKnife technique to treat a malignant nodule within the lung.

6 Jan 2010

Phase 2 study evaluating VBL Therapeutics' lead compound VB-201 initiated

VBL Therapeutics today announced the initiation of a Phase 2 efficacy and safety study evaluating lead compound VB-201 for the treatment of patients with psoriasis. VB-201 is poised to be a first-in-class, orally-administered immune response modifier expected to reduce inflammation in a broad range of conditions such as psoriasis.

5 Jan 2010

RFA reduces pain in bone metastases patients

Image-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA), a minimally invasive cancer treatment which can be performed in the outpatient setting, significantly reduced the level of pain experienced by cancer patients with bone (osseous) metastases, limiting the need for strong narcotic pain management, and supporting improved patient frame of mind, according to results of an American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) study published online in the journal Cancer.

5 Jan 2010

Montana high court allows physician-assisted suicide

The Associated Press/NPR reports: "The Montana Supreme Court said Thursday that nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide, making Montana the third state that will allow the procedure. Patients and doctors had been waiting for the state's high court to step in after a lower court decided a year ago that constitutional rights to privacy and dignity protect the right to die. The Montana Supreme Court opinion will now give doctors in the state the freedom to prescribe the necessary drugs to mentally competent, terminally ill patients without fear of being prosecuted, advocates said" (1/2).

5 Jan 2010

Pueblo Radiology Medical Group signs two year contract extension with Zotec Partners

Zotec Partners, an industry leader in medical billing, practice management and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) software and services, announces today that Pueblo Radiology Medical Group, Inc. out of Santa Barbara, Calif. has inked a two year contract extension with the company.

30 Dec 2009

CSL Behring awards four advocacy grants to patient organizations in the U.S.

CSL Behring, a global leader in the plasma-protein biotherapies industry and a subsidiary of CSL Limited, has awarded four advocacy grants totaling $87,000 to patient organizations in the United States through the Local Empowerment for Advocacy Development (LEAD) program.

29 Dec 2009

Childhood ETS may lead to emphysema

Children regularly exposed to tobacco smoke at home were more likely to develop early emphysema in adulthood. This finding by researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggests that the lungs may not recover completely from the effects of early-life exposures to tobacco smoke (ETS). The study is published in the December 2009 American Journal of Epidemiology.

29 Dec 2009