Medtrade 2008 will kick off its 29th year of connecting buyers and sellers of home medical equipment products and services.
ARMRIT 2008, 3rd Annual Meeting and Seminar will be held October 16-18, at the Stirling Club-Turnberry Place, Las Vegas, NV.
The 59th Annual AAOMR Session will be held October 29-November 2, at the Omni William Penn Hotel, in Pittsburgh, PA.
The American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly will be held October 27-30, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL.
The 11th Annual Premier Women's HealthCare Conference will be held October 15-18, 2008, at the Seattle Sheraton & Seattle Convention Center, in Seattle, WA.
Designed to fit existing X-ray rooms without modification. The system is compact, lightweight and enhances efficiency and patient positioning.
The 89th Oklahoma Hospital Association Annual Convention and Trade Show is the most important education event for hospital and health care professionals in Oklahoma.
A snapshot of therapeutic trends.
Premier conference for radiation therapy and medical dosimetry professionals.
Intended to provide guidance to academic chairs, residency program directors, academic section chiefs, residents, breast imaging fellows and even radiologists.
Company warns hospitals about unvalidated FirstCall probe files.
Medical Imaging Continuum: Path Forward for Advancing the Uses of Medical Imaging in the Development of New Biopharmaceutical Products to be held October 2-3 in Bethesda, MD.
Misonix, Inc., a developer of minimally invasive ultrasonic medical device technology used in Europe has entered into a distribution agreement with privately-held North Med, based near Prague in the Czech Republic.
Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced a licensing agreement with Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a division of Innocoll, Inc., granting Baxter exclusive rights to market and distribute the company's gentamicin surgical implant in the United States.
Abbott Laboratories Inc. will eliminate about 1,000 jobs over the next four years as part of a plan to streamline operations and cut costs in its medical diagnostics business.
UnitedHealth Group of Minneapolis extends imaging accreditation deadline to the fourth quarter of 2009.
Doctors could soon be able to perform minimally invasive surgery on virtual versions of people's hearts to help ensure they make the best decisions for their patients before doing the procedure for real.
Drager Medical, has certified interoperability between its line of Infinity patient monitoring equipment and the Trapeze Networks line of NonStop Wireless networking.
Creates solution for perioperative documentation.
Zimmer expects to resume production of many of its orthopedic surgical products (OSP) within the next two or three months as it corrects quality system problems that forced it to halt certain operations at its plant in Dover, Ohio.
Intelerad augments PACS through mammography partnership with Three Palm Software
Eighty percent of Americans want either fundamental changes or a complete overhaul in the U.S. healthcare system.
A Mayo Clinic-created device signals the "birth of a new imaging modality" that could tap a multimillion dollar market.
Specialized implant is gender specific to female anatomy.
Medical group will lose cash injections.
Ceremonies held for two schools of New York Methodist Hospital's Center for Allied Health Education.
Register for the conference, September 3-6, 2008, in Nashville, TN.
Industry experts and global regulators to discuss oligonucleotide-based therapeutics issues in September.
Low vitamin D levels may raise the risk of death from any cause, researchers found.
MIT has filed a lawsuit against biotechnology company Affymetrix, alleging the company's GeneChip technology infringes an existing MIT patent.
NeoCube contains small parts that may be harmful or fatal.
The DeviceSpace Career Fair will be held on Monday, September 8, 2008 at the Minneapolis Airport Marriott in Bloomington, MN.
An NSF sponsored project enhances quality and flexibility of rehabilitation robotics.
Governor Jon Corzine has signed into law a measure that will create an early-warning system to help spot financially troubled hospitals.
The report recommends that Texas hire 1,993 primary care providers within seven years and look for more at a later date.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law one of the nation's strictest limits on gifts given to medical professionals by drug salespeople. However an industry group prefers separate codes of conduct for device and drug makers.
As more than 2.2 million children with food allergies head back to school in coming weeks, the American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) encourages parents, in cooperation with school staff, to take measures to ensure safety.
Ethicon Endo-Surgery announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SurgRx, a privately held developer of the advanced bipolar tissue sealing system used in the EnSeal(R) family of devices.
GE Signa HDe 1.5T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system completes rigorous internal environmental and operational evaluation.
Government investigators set up fake medical supply companies, and the companies were approved by Medicare.
Action taken to conserve cash while seeking financing/strategic alternatives.
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) stress perfusion testing is of great utility in the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) in women, US and German researchers report.
Parkland's President and Chief Executive Officer has been named.
Lynn Ihlenfeldt, Vice President of Product Development at Minnetronix, Inc., was honored for her professional achievements and leadership qualities in the medical device industry.
Adoption across France in dozens of private facilities.
PeerVue's qiVueTM solution enables PACS users to address regulatory, quality challenges.
Gadolinium-based contrast material used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) increases the risk for nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), according to a report in the June issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
The Samter Journalism Awards were developed to recognize the best reporting of the role of the allergist/immunologist and allergy, asthma and immunologic disease.
Medical device group takes stance on failure of DOHA talks; supports U.S. trade ambassador.
