August 18, 2009 - Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) represents a safe, noninvasive modality that frequently helps guide patient management, according to early findings from a multicenter registry published online Aug. 11 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

August 17, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare will showcase cath lab imaging and workflow enhancements with its hybrid Artis zeego system during the 2009 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Annual Conference (TCT) Sept. 21-25 in San Francisco.

August 17, 2009 - Reverse Medical Corporation announced that it has received U.S. FDA 510k clearance for its ReCruit Microcatheter, intended to retrieve intravascular foreign objects during interventional radiology procedures, including from the neurovasculature.

August 17, 2009 – The single largest factor for growth in the remote/home patient monitoring market is in cardiovascular disease (CD) in the United States, according to a new report from the healthcare market research firm Frost & Sullivan.

August 17, 2009 - SonoSite Inc., a specialist in hand-carried ultrasound for the point-of-care, announced that on Aug. 14 it completed the acquisition of CardioDynamics International Corp., a leader in impedance cardiography (ICG) for noninvasive hemodynamic assessment.

August 14, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging will continue to allocate its Mo-99 supply to serve as many people as possible, said the company today in response to the statement issued by AECL regarding the extended shutdown of the NRU reactor Aug. 12.

August 14, 2009 – Philips is currently introducing its Xcelera R3.1 cardiology informatics system, which has new telecardiology capabilities to support clinical workflow and help provide faster sharing capabilities for cardiac patient information.

August 14, 2009 – ZOLL Medical Corp. said today Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital in Hampshire, United Kingdom, is the first hospital to install the AutoPulse Noninvasive Cardiac Support Pump in the cardiac catheterization laboratory in the U.K.

August 14, 2009 – Unity Health System-Park Ridge in Rochester, N.Y., upgraded its OB-Windows systems with two OBLinks, providing instant, electronic transmission of patient data from ultrasound systems to Digisonics OB-View/OB-Windows systems eliminating human input error and increasing efficiency.

August 13, 2009 - The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed disappointment with reports from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) that the aging nuclear reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, which produces most of the medical isotopes for Canada and the United States, will not be back up and running until the spring of 2010.

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