Those who suffer a head injury requiring an ambulance should be immediately taken to a hospital for a CT scan, according to draft guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, an organization sponsored by the U.K. Department of Health that provides public health guidance.

Installation of a CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray System has led to a 50% reduction in X-ray dosage at the 564-bed University Hospital Tenon, Paris, which is part of the public health system APHP. Figures have been validated by a member of the Personnes Compétentes en Radioprotection (PCR), a nationwide network of Radiation Protection Officers.

Agfa HealthCare announces today the installation of six DX-D 100 mobile digital X-ray systems at the Medical Education & Training Campus (METC), a United States Department of Defense (DoD) integrated campus. The systems will be utilized in the basic biomedical equipment technician (BMET) training curriculum for all Army, Navy and Air Force BMETs in the DoD.

Enhancing its product leadership team, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. has named David Sloop director, X-ray Vascular Business Unit. Sloop will be responsible for implementing strategic marketing plans to drive growth and profitability of Toshiba’s X-ray Vascular product line.

To help save the lives of injured and ill mountain and Grauer’s gorillas and to sustain their populations in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gorilla Doctors is using the ViamoTM ultrasound system, donated by Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. The system is the first in the project’s 26 years to be used on gorillas in the wild, greatly improving the quality of veterinary care.

North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) announced today it has installed the most advanced cardiac computed tomography (CT) scanner to help diagnose heart disease and a patient’s risk for heart attack.

Siemens Healthcare has announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the MAMMOMAT Inspiration Prime Edition, which lowers patient radiation dose up to 30 percent without compromising image quality.

GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) and Konica Minolta Inc. have signed a global distribution agreement (*) of Konica Minolta’s AeroDR cassette-size digital x-ray imaging retrofit. Having built a collaborative relationship for nearly ten years related to the sales of computed radiography (CR)1 in the United States, the two partners have now agreed to expand their strategic alliance, with GE Healthcare distributing AeroDR not just within the United States, but globally as well, using GE Healthcare sales channels.