March 12, 2009 – Today, FDAnews and the Neocure Group revealed details today of the upcoming Medical Device Reimbursement Strategies Workshops, which will be held in Boston (April 30-May 1) and Minneapolis (August 24-25).

March 12, 2009 - Siemens Healthcare will add to its series of webcasts designed to assist customers navigate the key Health IT provisions of the recently-enacted American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), a discussion entitled “Healthcare policy and IT initiatives: What a difference a year makes,” to run on March 13, 2009.

March 12, 2009 - Gail Lebovic, M.D., a nationally prominent breast and oncoplastic surgeon, will discuss breast cancer risk assessment with the HALO Breast Pap Test, plus innovative surgical options for patients, at the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC) annual meeting in Las Vegas.

March 12, 2009 - GE Healthcare and Lunar Division, which markets bone densitometry products, have entered into a distribution agreement with Biospace Co., in which Lunar will offer U.S. customers BIOSPACE’S InBody230 and InBody720, bioelectric impedance analyzers measuring body composition.

March 11, 2009 - With the joint development of the Ziehm NaviPort 3D interface, the medical technology manufacturing companies Ziehm Imaging and Stryker have succeeded in importing 2D and 3D C-arm image data into Stryker’s active infrared navigation systems.

March 11, 2009 - Elective repair for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) is on the rise, yet total AAA-related deaths continue to decline since the introduction of endovascular repair (EVAR), according to an ongoing, long-term research report from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

March 11, 2009 - Infrahealth Group of companies, a health care software and services provider, said its patent-pending solution, Infrahealth Insurance Verification and Eligibility System (IVES) in available.

March 11, 2009 - One of the leading cancer centers in the Middle East has acquired two advanced radiotherapy devices from Varian Medical Systems equipped with RapidArc technology for fast and precise treatments.