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Novation, Toshiba sign agreement to offer CT system access to members of VHA

Continuing its commitment to offer the highest-quality products and services to hospitals nationwide, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has signed an agreement with Novation, the leading healthcare supply contracting company, to offer Toshiba CT systems to the members of VHA, University HealthSystem Consortium and Provista, giving them access to all systems in Toshiba's award-winning CT product line.

2 Feb 2011

Boston Scientific fourth quarter net sales decrease 4% to $2.002 billion

Boston Scientific Corporation today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010, as well as net sales and earnings per share (EPS) guidance for the full year and first quarter 2011.

2 Feb 2011

Steps to protect security and privacy of protected health information

Gaps in the security and privacy of healthcare data still exist, even though the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act's (HIPAA) rules for security and privacy safeguards were extended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

2 Feb 2011

Clay County and Paris Community Hospitals select HMS EDIS software suite

HMS EDIS, powered by MEDHOST, a software suite that automates patient care processes for the emergency department (ED), has been selected by Clay County Hospital and Paris Community Hospital.

2 Feb 2011

Masimo PVI predicts fluid responsiveness with high sensitivity, specificity in ICU patients

Masimo announced today that a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Critical Care Medicine demonstrates that noninvasive, continuous monitoring of Masimo Pleth Variability Index predicts fluid responsiveness with high sensitivity and specificity in mechanically-ventilated patients in the Intensive Care Unit.

2 Feb 2011

Bethany Christian Services creates HIV Adoption Toolkit to educate parents

It is estimated that there are more than one million orphans around the world living with HIV/AIDS. Bethany Christian Services, the nation's largest adoption agency, today announced the creation of the HIV Adoption Toolkit for couples considering adopting children living with HIV/AIDS.

2 Feb 2011

ACP finds diagnostic imaging for low back pain does not improve patients health

The American College of Physicians has found strong evidence that routine imaging for low back pain with X-ray or advanced imaging methods such as CT scan or MRI does not improve the health of patients.

2 Feb 2011

First blood-based diagnostic test for LAM

Circadian Technologies has announced today that in conjunction with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center it has begun offering its LAM diagnostic, which is offered as a laboratory test compliant with CAP (College of American Pathologists) /CLIA regulations.

2 Feb 2011

Tel Aviv University researcher develops software tool for plastic surgeons

For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high. Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons' offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just like a favorite celeb. But those albums only show how someone else's liposuction, breast augmentation, or Beyonce bum enhancement turned out.

2 Feb 2011

Study: Obese women may avoid mammograms because of pain

Obese women may avoid mammograms because of pain and women under 60 may avoid the test because they are too busy, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research published online in the Journal of Women's Health. Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study was one of the largest to examine why insured women fail to complete mammograms.

2 Feb 2011

Skinvisible, Novartis enter agreement for technical feasibility study

Skinvisible Pharmaceuticals, has entered into a feasibility agreement with Novartis Pharma AG. Under the agreement Skinvisible will assess the technical feasibility of a topical formulation with an undisclosed compound utilizing its proprietary Invisicare polymer delivery system.

2 Feb 2011

New robotic technique can better predict tumors during radiotherapy, prevent severity of side effects

Medical physicists at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center have demonstrated a new real-time tumor tracking technique that can help minimize the amount of radiation delivered to surrounding healthy tissue in a patient—up to 50 percent less in some cases—and maximize the dose the tumor receives.

2 Feb 2011

New Spanish version of ASPIRE for Hispanic teens

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's popular web-based teen prevention and smoking-cessation program, ASPIRE, now speaks Spanish.

2 Feb 2011

Brain surgeon partners with NASA's JPL to design high-tech surgical instruments

Internationally renowned brain surgeon Hrayr Shahinian, M.D., a pioneer in minimally invasive brain surgery, has announced that he is teaming with scientists and technologists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to design the next generation of high-tech surgical instruments - technology that also will be useful for planetary exploration.

2 Feb 2011

CDH first hospital in New England to use Xenex PX-UV disinfection system

Cooley Dickinson Hospital (CDH) today announced it is the first hospital in New England to use the Xenex PX-UV disinfection system to disinfect its patient and operating rooms.

2 Feb 2011

Antares initiates dosing in VIBEX MTX clinical study for rheumatoid arthritis

Antares Pharma, Inc. today announced that the first patient has been dosed in a clinical study evaluating the VIBEX™ MTX product which is being developed for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The clinical study will evaluate several dose strengths of VIBEX MTX delivered with a proprietary autoinjector versus conventional needle and syringe administration by a healthcare professional.

2 Feb 2011

FDA approves Cyberonics Aspire High Capacity generator for vagus nerve stimulation therapy

Cyberonics, Inc. today announced that the AspireHC™ (High Capacity) generator for use in vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for commercial release.

2 Feb 2011

PET imaging may play a role in early evaluation of vandetanib response in thyroid cancer

Positron emission tomography can image metabolic changes following treatment with the protein kinase inhibitor vandetanib, helping to define the therapy response or the effectiveness of the therapeutic agent, according to research published in the February issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

1 Feb 2011

Fluidigm launches new BioMark HD Real-time PCR System for genomic analysis

Fluidigm today introduced the new BioMark HD Real-time PCR System, the company's most advanced instrument for genomic analysis ever. The BioMark HD System is designed for researchers who require the sensitivity and throughput needed to study gene expression down to the single-cell level -- especially those who have limited amounts of sample or study rare populations of cells.

1 Feb 2011

Intricon introduces new patent-pending APT Open in-the-canal hearing aid

IntriCon Corporation, a designer, developer, manufacturer and distributor of body-worn devices, today announced that it has launched its all-new, patent-pending APT Open in-the-canal hearing aid.

1 Feb 2011