April 3, 2008 - Cardinal Health signed an exclusive agreement with UltraSPECT to provide cost-effective imaging processing software to cut scanning time in half or double the image resolution of existing nuclear medical imaging equipment.

April 3, 2008 - Patients treated with the TAXUS Stent had significant reductions in one-year revascularization rates in both large and small diameter vessels compared to bare-metal stents (BMS), according to the TAXUS IV and V results presented by David A. Cox, M.D., FACC, at the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions in Partnership with the ACC/i2 Summit in Chicago.

Picis launched the Picis Perioperative Dashboard, a business activity monitoring (BAM) solution for hospitals' surgical departments, during the 2008 Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Congress in Anaheim, CA.

April 3, 2008 – New medical equipment company Medifico Inc. this week launched the Brainvue-TCD 1000, which uses ultrasound to measure blood flow in the brain to aid in the diagnosis, prevention, intervention, and treatment of strokes, migraines, concussions, sickle cell disease and detection of PFOs (holes between the chambers of the heart).

Corgenix Medical Corp. offers the Corgenix AspirinWorks platelets test kit product for patients with heart disease or stroke.

April 3, 2008 - In preparation for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) and the General Electric Company said this week two research programs have started to demonstrate health monitoring using ultrasound imaging and early intervention leads to injury prevention and enhanced health and sports performances for athletes.

April 1, 2008 - The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) responded to Senate Finance Committee's senior Republican, Charles Grassley of Iowa, regarding his concerns about reports that two pharmaceutical companies delayed the release of the results from the ENHANCE trial.

April 2, 2008 - Cardinal featured its SensiClip, surgical clippers at the 2008 AORN Congress this week, which offers wide, disposable blades to clip smoothly and quickly, without infection-causing nicks or cuts.

The company said cleanup is easy and fast, because it is completely submersible for thorough cleaning and disinfecting. The device is also lightweight, cordless, can be used for wet or dry hair removal, its single-use blades are easy to remove and replace, and uses NiMH battery that cannot be overcharged.

April 1, 2008 - Despite the known increased rates of mortality and restenosis for diabetics versus non-diabetics in patients with cardiovascular disease, the TAXUS Stent had comparable levels of late loss and target lesion revascularization (TLR) across these patient populations, according to results from TAXUS IV and TAXUS V randomized clinical trials.

The analysis compared the safety and efficacy of the TAXUS Express Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in diabetic versus non-diabetic patients.

April 2, 2008 - The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) said that the recent multi-center study presented Tuesday by Cardiologist James K. Min, M.D., at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago demonstrates that coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) is cost-saving for patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD).

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