January 19, 2009 - Warburg will purchase more than 17 million shares of Nuance common stock at a price of $10.06 per share and will also acquire a warrant to purchase more than 3.8 million shares of Nuance common stock upon the closing of the investment at $11.57 per share. The warrant has a four-year term.

January 16, 2009 - GE Healthcare Ltd. is merging its two major divisions in metro Milwaukee - the diagnostic-imaging business and the clinical systems unit - under a broad reorganization of the $17 billion-a-year medical systems and biosciences company.

January 16, 2009 - St. Jude Medical Inc. said its ViewMate II Ultrasound System with the ViewFlex PLUS Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE) Catheter was used for the first use outside the U.S., enabling physicians to view real-time images from inside the heart as they diagnose and treat conditions resulting from abnormal rhythms or structural problems.

January 16, 2009 – Siemens Healthcare and U-Systems signed a technology licensing agreement for U-Systems’ somo-VIEWer* advanced workstation for Automated Breast Ultrasound for use with Siemens’ ACUSON S2000 Automated Breast Volume Scanner (ABVS), in a deal that aims to facilitate the adoption of automated breast volume ultrasound.

January 15, 2009 – MedCurrent Corp. said that Pueblo Radiology Medical Group is among the first imaging centers to use its Web-based insurance eligibility verification tool, MedCurrent Verify.

January 15, 2009 - Society of Nuclear (SNM) will devote its annual Molecular Imaging Summit to introducing the new SNM Clinical Trials Network, Feb. 8–9, at the Hilton Clearwater Hotel, Clearwater, FL.

January 15, 2008 - Cancer patients in Estonia now have access to advanced radiotherapy techniques— including intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT)— with the official unveiling shortly before Christmas of an advanced Varian Medical Systems treatment machine at the North Estonia Regional Hospital in the country's capital, Tallinn.

January 14, 2009 - Trinitas Comprehensive Cancer Center became at the end of December one of the first cancer treatment centers in the state of New Jersey to offer cancer patients treatment using RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems.