June 18, 2009 - Berlin Heart Inc. said this week the FDA awarded it an Orphan Product Development Grant to support the ongoing investigational device exemption (IDE) study of the EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD). The device received unconditional approval for investigational use in pediatric patients in the U.S. in October 2008. The grant will provide three years of support.

June 18, 2009 – Abbott this week initiated SPIRIT PRIME, a clinical trial to study the performance of the company's next-generation Xience PRIME Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System, currently an investigational device, for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

June 18, 2009 – GE Healthcare this week launched its Stimulus Simplicity program, which offers healthcare providers interest-free loans with deferred payments to purchase electronic medical records (EMRs) and a certification warranty to ensure the EMRs will meet any guidelines set for meaningful use.


June 16, 2009 - “Our profession faces one of the most significant crises in its history,” said Michael Graham, M.D., the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), as he addressed a room packed with national and international press, hungry for accountability and solutions to the shortage of nuclear medicine radioisotopes.

June 16, 2009 - While the healthcare community awaited the first "Meaningful Use" definition due today, healthcare stakeholders struggled to define one of the key medical terms for the ARRA.

June 16, 2009 - Michael Reitermann will become the new CEO of Siemens Healthcare, U.S. organization, responsible for sales, marketing, service and logistics across the Siemens Healthcare portfolio, including medical imaigng equipment, healthcare information technology and medical therapy effective July 1, 2009.

June 16, 2009 - MDS Nordion, a leading global provider of medical isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals used in molecular medicine, and the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry in Moscow, Russia, have agreed to study the feasibility of the Karpov Institute providing the company with a flexible, reliable and responsive medical-isotope supplier of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) for the global nuclear medicine

June 16, 2009 - Numa, a nuclear medicine connectivity and system integration company, debuted at the SNM 2009 annual conference NumaManage, a new patient scheduling and workflow manager for a Nuclear Medicine or PET/CT department designed to streamline the workflow and schedule management of a molecular imaging department.

June 16, 2009 - President Barack Obama asked for physicians to help in his plans for healthcare reform during the American Medical Association's 158th annual meeting Monday in Chicago.

June 16, 2009 - In response to the molybdenum 99 (Mo-99) supply shortage, Covidien sent out a letter to its customers informing them of the anticipated Covidien generator and unit dose (UD) Tc 99m supply to the overall U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets through August 2009.

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