Varian Medical Systems has received European CE mark approval for its Proton Therapy system, designed to improve treatments and outcomes incancer cases.

The Oxford, Conn.-based BrachySciences, a division of Biocompatibles International, has signed an agreement with IsoRay to distribute its Proxcelan Cesium-131 brachytherapy seeds.

President Barack Obamathis weeksigned a 1,071-page economic stimulus bill into law, which includes approximately $20 billion for healthcare IT and establishes new rules to protect the privacy of patients' health information.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has clarified its policy for Medicare coverage of bariatric surgery as a treatment for certain beneficiaries with type-2 (or non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.

American Shared Hospital Services (AMS), a provider of technology solutions for radiosurgical and radiation therapy services, is developing a proton beam radiation therapy facility in the San Francisco Bay area.

IsoRay, the sole producer of the Cesium-131 brachytherapy seed through its subsidiary IsoRay Medical, saw a decrease in net losses despite a 25 percent reduction in sales revenue forits fiscal 2009second quarter, which ended Dec. 31.

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City have piggybacked antibodies onto radioactive payloads to deliver radiation dosages that selectively target and destroy microbial and HIV-infected cells.

Both houses of Congress have reached a compromise in support of President Barack Obama's Economic Reinvestment and Recovery Act that, among other initiatives totaling $787 billion, is expected to have a net impact of $19 billion for healthcare on the federal budget over the next 10 years.