The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has published a new patient information brochure, Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Understanding Treatment.

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has appointed Don E. Detmer, MD, president and CEO of the association.

Matrox Graphics Inc. introduced two new display controller boards for low profile workstations, Low Profile RAD2mp and Low Profile RAD3mp, at the annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (JSMRM) in Otsu, Japan, Sept. 16 - 1

ContextVision Inc. has made Toyo Corp. a distributor of its GOPView image enhancement products in Japan.

SCC Soft Computer was ranked No. 1 in a recently released 2004 Laboratory Information System evaluation conducted by HCIT Research, a healthcare IT market and research firm headquartered in Glassboro, N.J.

Grants, distance learning programs and sign-on bonuses are helping attract more students to radiation oncology as well as retain more professionals, according to an article written by John Kresl, MD, PhD, chair of the workforce committee of the American S

Cedara Software Corp. this week announced that NASDAQ has approved its application to list its securities on The NASDAQ National Market.

Montclair Radiology Associates PA of Montclair, N.J., and North Fork Radiology PC of Riverhead, N.Y., have purchased digital medical image capture and information management systems from Eastman Kodak Co.'s Health Imaging Group.