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.

March 11, 2009 – When CT Laser Mammography (CTLM) is used as an adjunct to mammography in heterogeneously and extremely dense breasts, the sensitivity increases significantly, according to results from a study presented at the annual European Congress of Radiology (ECR 2009), March 6-10, in Vienna, Austria.

March 10, 2009 – The Medical Imaging Technology Alliance said today that a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida Health Center and Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrates that using appropriateness criteria to help curb growth rates in advanced imaging utilization, according to a study set for publication in an upcoming issue of Radiology.