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The FDA's Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communications has informed Bracco Diagnostics that its Web site for IsoVue (iopamidol injection) misbrands the drug by omitting and minimizing the risks associated with the agent and contains false and unsubstantiated claims.
In a development that researchers say could quell concerns about the value of costly CT scans to diagnose coronary artery blockages, the results from the CorE-64 study were published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The results confirm that 64-slice CT scans can correctly identify people with major blood vessel disease and that they are nearly as accurate as invasive coronary angiography. The initial findings from CorE-64 were presented at the 2007 annual American Heart Association’s (AHA) Scientific Sessions last November. The results released this week reflect the study’s updated data.
NEW ORLEANS—The risk of radiation-induced cancer from cardiac CT is substantially lower than previously reported for general populations, according to a poster presentation at the 2008 American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions this week.
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Michael Reitermann has been appointed the new CEO of Siemens Healthcare's U.S. organization.
TomTec, a provider of medical imaging software solutions for multimodality quantification, visualization and image management, and Medis, a provider of quantification software solutions, have released a joint cardiac imaging and analysis product for x-ray angiography and ultrasound.
Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, in Somerset, England, has installed a floor-mounted Axiom Artis zee interventional cardiac imaging system from Siemens Healthcare for coronary angiography, angioplasty and cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT).
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.