1. Medipattern

... Yonge Street , Suite 4070, Toronto ON, M4N 3N1. Jeff Collins 1999 Stanley Archdekin, Lorne Greenspan Stanley Archdekin ...

2. Doctors Order CT without Clinical Justification
(Communities/CT)

A new report from the Medicare watchdog, the Professional Services Review, has found several cases of doctors ordering high radiation CT scans without clinical justification. CT scans take three dimensional ...

3. CT Overuse Linked to Cancer Risk
(Communities/CT)

The overuse of computed tomography ( CT ) scans in Australia, with doctors being urged to stop the indiscriminate ordering of scans which can cause cancer. The Medicare watchdog says there is an alarming ...

4. Intermountain Healthcare - Toshiba Announce faCTor64 Substudy
(Company News/Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation)

Toshiba Ultrasound Used for Early Detection of CHD in Asymptomatic Diabetics Cardiovascular death is the most common cause of mortality among Type 2 diabetics and claims the lives of millions each year, ...

5. MDCE Completes Tele-Health Suite For CHF
(Healthcare Informatics/Healthcare Informatics)

... by the Department of Community and Family Medicine, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, and Chinese University of Hong Kong found that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the second leading cause ...

6. US Drug Watchdog Expands Gadolinium-Medical MRI
(Communities/MRI)

The US Drug Watchdog is expanding its investigation of a dye used in MRI's called Gadolinium, for individuals who have kidney disease who were exposed to this dye, and an incurable medical condition called ...

7. VentriPoint Declares Clinical Validation Study Acceptance
(Company News/VentriPoint Diagnostics Ltd.)

... analyzing patient data for the study. The KBR method was successfully applied for patients with the most common type of congenital heart disease (CHD) causing a "blue baby" at birth. Studies are in progress ...

8. IAC 2010
(Radiology Conferences/IAC 2010)

... *Arrhythmias *Cardiac Surgery For more details on this meeting, visit their site at: http://www.cardiologyonline.com/wchd10//welcome.htm  ...

9. SFN 2009 Exhibitors
(Radiology Conferences/SFN 2009)

...  Neurostar GmbH        New Brunswick Scientific Co.         New England Biolabs         NewBehavior, Inc.         Newport Corporation     NICHD/Eunice Kenn Shriv Nat'l Inst Child Hlth & Hum Dev    ...

10. Vital Images and Chindex International Sign Reseller Agreement
(Company News/Vital Images)

... software, and Chindex International, Inc. ("Chindex") (Nasdaq:CHDX), a leading independent American provider of Western healthcare products and services in the People's Republic of China, announced an ...

11. iMedica Appoints Dr. Ray Fabius, Global Physician Executive, to Board of Directors
(Company News/Aprima Medical Software, Inc)

... President and Chief Medical Officer of I-trax/CHD Meridian (AMEX: DMX), where he directed research, quality management, clinical services, health informatics and new business development. I-trax was the ...

12. InforSense Used by Celera to Further Investigate Genetic Markers for Coronary Heart Disease
(Company News/InforSense Ltd)

... molecular and public data sources to accelerate the successful identification of genetic markers, such as those Celera has reported for increased risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). The InforSense Translational ...

13. GE Healthcare and Archimedes, Inc. to Collaborate on Study for Early Diagnosis of Coronary Heart Disease
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

GE Healthcare and Archimedes, Inc. announced a collaboration to launch an exciting new virtual study to identify an enhanced diagnostic protocol for predicting coronary heart disease (CHD). GE Healthcare ...

14. Health at Risk with X-rays?
(Modalities/Radiology )

... of radiation over-exposure, especially for seriously ill people who are often asked to repeat all diagnostic tests each time they consult a new expert. The absence of a watchdog or set treatment protocols ...

15. Clinicians wait too long for imaging results, says watchdog
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... published on Monday. But two out of three clinicians say that often they still do not get the results when they need them. The report from the healthcare watchdog on imaging services praises the progress ...

16. Issues in pediatric cardiology
(Imported/Imported)

... of two heart abnormalities that cancel each other out) in this age group. Newly diagnosed CHDs were frequent, including: patent foramen ovale (hole between right and left atria, n=618); patent ductus arteriosus ...

17. Criteria to detect bone mass deficiencies in children with chronic diseases
(Communities/Musculoskeletal )

... sites differently from others. The research was funded by and conducted under the auspices of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institutes of Health. ...

18. New data reassures on safety of drug-coated stents
(Imported/Imported)

... stents have caused a rethink by some regulators. Britain's cost-effectiveness watchdog the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence last month proposed stopping payments for drug stents, to ...

19. UK hospitals short-changing women with heart failure
(Imported/Imported)

... information supplied to the health services watchdog, the Healthcare Commission that year, as part of its national check on acute care services.* The results indicate that heart failure is being better ...

20. China executes ex-drug chief amid health scandals
(Imported/Imported)

... had brought only shame to the watchdog. "This kind of serious case of law breaking by a small minority of corrupt elements, as far as the entire system is concerned, really made us feel ashamed," she said. ...