Le Bonheur Childrens Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has installed two Toshiba America Medical Systems Radrex-i DR x-ray systems, one in the emergency department and one in the radiology department, at its recently expanded hospital.

Synapse RIS Version 6.1 from Fujifilm Medical Systems has received modular EHR certification for meaningful use for radiology.

The FDA has notified healthcare professionals and medical care organizations of the Class 1 recall of the listed automated external defibrillators (AEDs), which contain a component that may fail unexpectedly due to a defect. If the component were to fail during a rescue attempt, the AED may not deliver defibrillation therapy, causing serious adverse health consequences, including death.

The FDA has cleared Covidien's Solitaire FR revascularization device, which is intended to restore blood flow to the brain in patients suffering acute ischemic stroke by mechanically removing blood clots from blocked vessels.

For assessing severe trauma, whole-body CT can prove, but not definitively exclude, the presence of injuries and should be performed later than 30 minutes after admission to an emergency department for optimal results, according to a study published in the March issue of Canadian Medical Association Journal.

The FDA has issued updated recommendations concerning drug-drug interactions between drugs for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) known as protease inhibitors and certain statins, because, if taken together, they may raise the blood levels of statins and increase the risk for muscle injury, or myopathy.

Agfa HealthCare introduced a tabletop CR system and a mammography/general radiology CR product at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR), in Vienna, March 2-5.

A total of 202 bipartisan co-sponsors have demonstrated support for H.R. 3269, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, according to the American College of Radiology. H.R. 3269 would repeal the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services-mandated payment reduction to the professional component of Medicare reimbursement for multiple diagnostic imaging services administered by the same physician, to the same patient, at the same session.