November 21, 2007 - MIV Therapeutics Inc. will sell all of its shares of SagaX Inc. for $4.0 million plus future royalties on sales of 8.0 percent, allowing MIV to focus on the interventional cardiology space and save $1.0 million plus annually in development costs.

The payments will be made in increments of $1.0 million upon the achievement of various equity financing parameters, which may be met by SagaX over a four-year period from closing.

November 19, 2007 - Endovascular therapy as opposed to open surgery is a less invasive treatment choice that also appears to improve patient outcome, according to author Mark A. Farber, M.D., associate professor, division of vascular surgery at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

November 19, 2007 - 20/20 HealthCare signed an agreement with Rcadia to distribute Rcadia’s COR-Analyzer computer-aided detection (CAD) software for automatic segmentation and classification of coronary CT angiogram procedures, using 20/20 HealthCare’s subsidiaries, Viztek and 20/20 HealthCare Global, as distribution channels.

November 19, 2007 – Covidien Imaging Solutions, a subsidiary of Covidien Ltd., signed a multi-year deal to supply X-ray contrast imaging agents to customers of MedAssets Supply Chain Systems, a St. Louis-based group purchasing organization, as part of Covidien's plan to broaden its distribution channels for its imaging agents.

November 19, 2007 – Prescient Medical Inc. has acquired Time Resolved Light Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy (TR-LIFS) technology designed for early detection, diagnosis and quantification of coronary artery disease.

TR-LIFS exploits the phenomenon that bi-products of metabolic activity behave differently than surrounding tissue. In TR-LIFS, a short light pulse (picoseconds) is used to excite the tissue, and then the resulting light that emanates from the tissue is monitored over a brief time span (several nanoseconds).

November 19, 2007 - U.S. hospitals that deliver better clinical outcomes for cardiovascular care also treat heart patients in less time and at a lower cost, according to a study released today by Thomson Healthcare.

The 2007 Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success analyzed the performance of nearly 1,000 U.S. hospitals based on their outcomes for eight measures related to congestive heart failure, heart attacks, coronary artery bypass grafts (CABGs) and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), such as angioplasties.

November 19, 2007 - Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced SOMATOM Definition AS, an adaptive scanner created for strokes, cardiac conditions and cancer, designed to expand CT's role from just imaging to managing patient outcome.

IMIX Americas Inc., a provider of digital radiography products, will feature the IMIX insight line of full-featured digital radiography products for a variety of imaging applications at RSNA 2007.

November 16, 2007 - Philips announced today the launch of the new Digital Pocket Memo 9370 for mobile dictation, designed to make the transition from analog to digital dictation fast and easy.

November 15, 2007 – Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. today introduced a fourth generation contrast-free imaging technique, Time and Space Angiography (TSA), which creates images that show dynamic blood flow without using contrast agents.

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