October 21, 2009 – King Pharmaceuticals Inc. said today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a complete response letter regarding the new drug application (NDA) for its cardiac pharmacologic stress agent CorVue (binodenoson), and the company is working on a response.

October 21, 2009 – Carestream Health Inc. yesterday announced the availability of its new Web-based cardiology PACS that provides an efficient enterprise-wide image and information management solution for cardiology data. The CARESTREAM Cardiology PACS is now available in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Italy.

October 21, 2009 - GE Healthcare launched a new solution that puts clinical data and treatment practices in the hands of doctors and clinicians in real-time so that they can make informed decisions right at the point of care.

October 20, 2009 - The American College of Radiology is urging the medical community to support a bill (S. 1776) to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and erase the $240 billion debt associated with it.

October 20, 2009 - SERVICE 800's honored Agfa Healthcare with a five-year award for exceptional service quality at the Customer Satisfaction Executive Conference. This annual forum is a gathering of technology executives from around the world who have a common interest in measuring and benchmarking service performance delivery.

October 20, 2009 - Virtual Radiologic Corp. (NASDAQ:VRAD), a provider of teleradiology services and technology solutions, released vRad Enterprise Connect version 2.1, which enables clients to access the product solution on mobile PDAs, as well as use new transcription capabilities, known as vRad Scribe, in addition to the existing voice recognition technology.

October 19, 2009 - The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has selected Carrie Daly, A.P.N., of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Ill., as the recipient of the 2009 ASTRO Nurse Excellence Award, which is awarded to a registered nurse who goes above and beyond the normal standards of nursing practice.

October 19, 2009 - Unscreened women accounted for 75 percent of breast cancer deaths in an analysis of data on 6,997 invasive breast cancers diagnosed in 1990-1999 and followed through 2007, according to a study presented at the at the ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium.

October 16, 2009 - The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio’s one-year training certificate in medical dosimetry, offered through the School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center (CTRC), has became only the eighth program in the country to receive accreditation from the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, the field

October 16, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare announces that Cleveland Clinic Foundation has purchased its fourth ARTISTE for its Strongsville Cancer Center in Cleveland, Ohio.