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Philips Healthcare parent Royal Philips Electronics plans to collaborate with (more)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada have approved (more)

In a 62-36 vote on March 10, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that, if approved (more)

A New Jersey representative has introduced legislation to the U.S. House of (more)

An advanced visualization method for virtual colonoscopy could help computer-aided (more)

An advanced visualization method for virtual colonoscopy could help computer-aided (more)

The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Monday voted 16-9 to approve a bill (HB 4517) that would require physicians to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound image at least one hour before performing an abortion, the Charleston Gazette reports. According to the Gazette, the rule would only apply to cases where ultrasound technology already is being used...

New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging tools may help address the most challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation's President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern said today...

Aided by ultrasound guidance, treating tumors with extreme heat or moderate heat may provide a possible therapeutic option, according to early research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, held March 7-10, 2010...

Beginning in 2010 Springer is adding Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (NMMI) to its journals publishing program. The journal will be published quarterly on behalf of the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, which has been the publisher of the journal since 1967...

PACS vendor Medweb of San Francisco is offering a free electronic health record (more)

Orthopedic imaging developer OrthoScan launched a new version of its mini C-arm (more)

French digital radiography firm Biospace Med has received 510(k) clearance (more)

A New York imaging provider has prevailed in an antitrust lawsuit against a (more)

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA has received a three-year contract from HealthTrust (more)

HealthHelp, a leading specialty benefit management provider, continues to target health care cost drivers by adding diagnostic cardiac catheterization to its well-established and effective suite of services...

RIS/PACS vendor Brit Systems has added new orthopedic, workflow, and image (more)

In a case believed to be a United States first, the radiology team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital has used prenatal magnetic resonance imaging to detect an often-misdiagnosed genetic disease. The disorder, congenital chloride diarrhea, can cause severe dehydration and serious metabolic disturbances in newborns if not treated quickly...

CynergisTek is making its data loss prevention software available for healthcare (more)

Continued stabilization in its medical technology business helped buoy revenues (more)