February 22, 2010 – Since the introduction of the popular iPhone in 2007, numerous medical apps were introduced, however only a few are intended for radiology. iCRco recently introduce iClarity for the iPhone to help improve the physician and radiologist productivity.

February 22, 2010 – As part of a comarketing and trademark license agreement between MEDRAD Inc. and B. Braun Melsungen AG, the companies will both promote the Paccocath drug-eluting balloon (DEB) technology.

February 22, 2010 – During the Joint Interventional Meeting (JIM) Feb. 11-13 in Rome, the Cappella Sideguard 3.25 bifucation stent was highlighted.

February 22, 2010 – The FDA said Physio-Control Inc. has improved the quality of its external defibrillators and may resume unrestricted worldwide shipments.

February 22, 2010 – The session “The Future is Now: Changing Paradigms in Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Management,” will take place 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 13 in Atlanta, Ga., in room A301, Georgia World Congress Center.

February 22, 2010 – RIS/PACS maker Merge Healthcare Inc. said today it is making a bid to purchased the PACS company AMICAS. However, Amicas says it already entered into a merger deal with another company.

February 19, 2010 – The use of medical technology in the United States increased dramatically between 1996 and 2006, according to “Health, United States, 2009,” the federal government’s 33rd annual report to the president and Congress on the health of all Americans.

February 19, 2010 – For women concerned about heart disease, routine testing of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) is controversial, said Thomas Behrenbeck, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, in an interview in the February issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.

February 19, 2010 – A chemical compound found normally in the blood has shown promise in treating and preventing an intractable form of heart failure in a mouse model of the disease, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.

The study is published in the February issue of Circulation.

February 18, 2010 - Clinicians treating the citizens of Concepcion, Honduras and surrounding rural area will now have access to specialists in the United States, thanks to Medweb’s recent PACS donation to Shoulder to Shoulder Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating an integrated healthcare system in Honduras.

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