September 16, 2008 — Nuance Communications Inc. unveiled its Dragon Medical 10 edition, a real-time medical speech recognition software which recognizes dictation nearly twice as fast as its previous release and yields an accuracy improvement of more than 20 percent over the previous release.

The upgrade offers new medical vocabularies, improved integration with electronic medical record (EMR) systems, enhanced regional accent support, and customizable commands, like Voice Shortcuts and DragonTemplates.

September 16, 2008 - Datascope Corp. said today it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Getinge AB, a global medical technology company with existing operations in the cardiac and vascular surgery market.

The transaction is subject to customary conditions, including the tender of a majority of the outstanding shares of Datascope common stock into the tender offer, regulatory approvals and the absence of a material adverse change with respect to Datascope.

For more information: www.datascope.com, www.getinge.com

September 15, 2008 - TeraRecon Inc. said its new innovations in endovascular and interventional planning software for its Aquarius iNtuition advanced visualization solution will be showcased at the upcoming CIRSE Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept. 13-17.

September 15, 2008 – Syntermed unveiled ReconTools, a software package that performs image reconstruction, quality control and correction for degraded image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT images, at the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) 2008 annual meeting in Boston, Sept. 10-14.

September 15, 2008 - A study that looked at 375 patients who underwent nuclear stress testing at Henry Ford showed that in the majority of cases, 90 percent, physicians ordered the diagnostic imaging test appropriately using the updated 2007 Appropriateness Criteria of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ACNC) and American College of Cardiology.

September 15, 2008 - BSD Medical Corp. said the FDA 510(k) cleared its MicroThermX-100 Microwave Ablation System (MTX-100).

The MTX-100 is a compact, mobile system that includes a state-of-the-art computer, a microwave generator, single-patient-use disposable applicators and a proprietary thermistor-based temperature monitoring system.

The Aquarius iNtuition advanced visualization solution from TeraRecon features new innovations in endovascular and interventional planning software.

Syntermed's ReconTools software package performs image reconstruction, quality control and correction for degraded image quality in myocardial perfusion SPECT images.

September 12, 2008 – Navilyst Medical launched two new devices this week, an enhanced PICC Convenience Kitting and a new Xcela Power Injectable Port catheter provide a means for long-term delivery of fluids and medications including chemotherapy, and a new EZ Huber Safety Infusion Set offers a dual-action safety mechanism designed to reduce the risk of bloodborne pathogen exposure.

The new products will be premiered at Booth 202 at the upcoming Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association for Vascular Access (AVA) in Savannah, GA this week.

September 12, 2008 - Physio-Control Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Medtronic, said today it completed a voluntary, urgent medical device recall of 249 fully automatic LIFEPAK CR Plus automated external defibrillators (AEDs) because they are mis-configured with the software intended for semi-automatic AEDs.

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