GE Healthcare has released HDlive and Volume SRI (Speckle Reduction Imaging) for womens health imaging products within its Voluson Expert series platform.

Centric Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Medical Imaging Centres and certain business assets of Rads 24/7 Teleradiology Consultants for up to $36.2 million.

Maquet Cardiovascular has received both 510(k) clearance from the FDA and CE mark approval from the British Standards Institution for its new Sensation Plus 50cc 8 French intra-aortic balloon catheter, which combines fiber optic signal acquisition with hemodynamic support.

The use of breast MRI screenings among targeted, high-risk, underserved women significantly decreased diagnostic cost and increased patient follow-up compliance rates compared to using general-risk mammography screenings, according to a study presented at the Fourth American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held in Washington, D.C., from Sept. 18-21.

Columbia University's engineering researchers have developed a technique that utilizes extremely short pulses of ultrasound waves to open the blood-brain barrier, creating a host of possibilities for noninvasively treating brain disorders such as Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, atypical lobular hyperplasia and epilepsy.

Lee Medical International instituted a voluntary Class I recall of custom dialysis kits manufactured between Jan. 13 and March 21, due to a component that may not be sterile and could cause serious or life-threatening infection.

Researchers from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) have estimated that Medicare contractors nationwide overpaid physicians $28.8 million for incorrectly coded services provided during 2008 and 2009.

BOSTONThe severity of heart failure (HF) may play a role in the overall commonness of comorbidities, Robert Lee Page II, PharmD, associate professor in the department of clinical pharmacy at the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus in Denver, said during a Sept. 19 presentation at the 15th annual Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) scientific meeting. While some comorbidities (hypertension, COPD and coronary artery disease) have been well-recognized, depression and obesity are beginning to crop up as potential problems.