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CORHIO, five Boulder County organizations sign deal to share patient data through HIE

Five Boulder County health care organizations have signed agreements to share patient data through the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization's Health Information Exchange, CORHIO officials announced today.

5 Apr 2011

Food addicts appear to have high neural activity in brain

Persons with an addictive-like eating behavior appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

5 Apr 2011

VisualSonics demonstrates Vevo LAZR imaging system at AACR conference

VisualSonics Inc., a leader in real time, in vivo, high-resolution micro-imaging systems and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SonoSite Inc., is demonstrating the recently announced Vevo LAZR Photoacoustics Imaging system at the American Association of Cancer Research's annual conference.

5 Apr 2011

Study suggests causal link between HSV1 and Alzheimer's disease

Laboratories at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Brown University, and House Ear Institute (HEI) have developed a new technique to observe herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) infections growing inside cells. HSV1, the cause of the common cold sore, persists in a latent form inside nerve cells.

5 Apr 2011

Caliper introduces novel fluorescent imaging agent for pre-clinical research

Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., a leading provider of tools and services for drug discovery, life sciences research and molecular diagnostics, today announced the launch of XenoLight RediJect COX-2 Probe, a novel fluorescent imaging agent for pre-clinical research that specifically detects the cyclooxygenase-2 biomarker noninvasively in live animal models as well as in ex vivo tissue analysis applications.

5 Apr 2011

International Isotopes 2010 net loss increases 49% to $6,802,014

International Isotopes Inc. announces the financial results for fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.

4 Apr 2011

Sofie Biosciences launches GENISYS4 benchtop small animal PET system

Sofie Biosciences, a developer of molecular imaging systems and agents, announced the launch of GENISYS4, their new benchtop small animal PET system. Introduced today at the 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, this compact, preclinical multimodality PET system provides researchers with the ability to non-invasively visualize and measure the biology of disease and therapeutic response over the course of a study.

4 Apr 2011

Coronary computed tomographic angiography to evaluate acute chest pain reduces hospital admissions

Hospital admissions at Stony Brook University Medical Center on Long Island were significantly reduced when using coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) to evaluate patients presenting in the emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain (ACP), according to research results presented during a scientific session at the American College of Cardiology's 60th Annual Scientific Session and Expo in New Orleans on April 3.

4 Apr 2011

Esaote acquires 3mensio

Esaote International NV and 3mensio Medical Imaging BV have entered into an agreement pursuant to which Esaote acquires 3mensio in order to expand its leading role in healthcare information technology.

4 Apr 2011

Positive results from Abbott's ABSORB device trial in coronary artery disease

Abbott today announced positive one-year results from 101 patients enrolled in the second phase of the ABSORB trial evaluating the world's first drug eluting Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

4 Apr 2011

Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare chooses Merge Cardio, Merge Hemo for new facility

Merge Healthcare Incorporated, a global corporation dedicated to health IT interoperability solutions, today announced that Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare, a 600-physician healthcare system based in Elmhurst, Illinois, selected Merge Cardio and Merge Hemo for their new 259-bed hospital.

2 Apr 2011

Royal Inland announces radical cut in outpatient x-ray services

Yesterday, Royal Inland Hospital announced a radical cut in outpatient x-ray services, with no consultation with the community.

2 Apr 2011

Select Data achieves task of creating SmartScribe EMR product

Select Data has achieved the task of creating a true electronic medical record that not only meets the meaningful use guidelines set forth by the Affordable Care Act while exceeding those requirements through the use of a paperless chart. The combination of the two creates the only solution in the home health industry to make an office truly paperless with all charting and documentation.

1 Apr 2011

Study: MicroRNA can predict risk of BM in lung cancer patients

Conducting genetic profiles using microRNA can help doctors predict which lung cancer patients are likely to also develop brain metastasis, according to a study published today by Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.

1 Apr 2011

Oncology experts educate lawmakers about latest information on radiation therapy

Leaders from the radiation oncology community – representing patients, physicians, providers, and manufacturers – met on Capitol Hill today to educate lawmakers and their staffs about the latest in radiation therapy technologies and techniques, improvements in patient care and the community's focus on patient safety in radiation therapy delivery.

1 Apr 2011

Scientists to develop new techniques for autism detection and treatment

To parents, learning that a child has been diagnosed with autism can be overwhelming. Children with the disorder can seem trapped in a world of their own, without friends or even a conception of friendship. Many prefer to play alone. Some lose the ability to speak more than a few words.

1 Apr 2011

NCI awards Case Western Reserve with $1.6 million grant for cancer research

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study how tumor cells avoid detection by the body's immune system, allowing cancer to develop and spread.

1 Apr 2011

First MR images to show complete borders in human cerebral cortex

Understanding functional properties of the brain’s structural units is one of the main aims of brain research. Until now only fragmentary borders of brain areas could be identified in vivo since the resolution in MR images was not high enough.

31 Mar 2011

Important updates on spondyloarthritis highlighted at 2010 SPARTAN meeting

Spondyloarthritis is a group of inflammatory conditions causing spine and joint pain and deformity, mostly in young men. Important updates on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of SpA are presented in the April issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, official journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.

31 Mar 2011

McKesson releases Horizon Cardiology 12.2 cardiovascular information system

With its new 12.2 software release, McKesson's Horizon Cardiology™ is the industry's only cardiovascular information system (CVIS) system that offers a single database, including hemodynamics, and presents the entire patient history from fetal to adulthood.

31 Mar 2011