1. Lunar Prodigy Primo

... advanced Dual-energy Vertebral Fracture Assessment (DVA) studies, user can assess patient’s bone health in less than 5 minutes with a seamless 6-click computer-driven operation. ...

2. Sahara bone sonometer

... of skeletal status, useful in identifying patients at risk of developing osteoporosis and for assessing their risk of future fracture. Users can add bone-testing capabilities to the private practice or ...

3. Lunar DPX Bravo

... automatically adjusts the scan path real-time during the examination.  Lunar DPX Bravo patient report combines key diagnostic results.  It prominently displays T-scores along with fracture risk assessment ...

4. Medtronic Introduces the Vertex Select System
(Company News/Medtronic)

... needs. Medtronic 's VERTEX SELECT System can be used to treat patients with degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, fracture, dislocation, failed previous fusions, and or tumors. Source: Medtronic ...

5. SIR Highlights Medical Advances & New Discoveries
(Organizations/Society of Interventional Radiology)

... minimally invasive advances coming for liver, breast, soft tissue, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancers; spine fracture treatment (vertebroplasty) for osteoporotic and non-osteoporotic patients; women’s ...

6. Portable Ultrasound Aid Special Forces Medics
(Communities/Ultrasound)

... to look into the body for a variety of medical purposes, such as identifying blood in the abdomen, finding fractures, skin infections and collapsed lungs, already have widespread use in Army medicine but ...

7. Preoperative MRI Misses Many Associated Lesions
(Communities/MRI)

... line,” O’Neill said. “I think that most folks do the routine arthroscopy and I probably would do the same as with a full-thickness lesion. I would probably microfracture and debride it., I do not know ...

8. Emergency Radiology: Handheld Devices Show Promise
(Modalities/Radiology )

... in this study may be comparable with secondary monitors for reporting findings on intracranial bleeds on CT images and fractured wrists on radiographs and may be of value in radiology, particularly for ...

9. Campbellford Hospital Unveils New CT Scanner
(Communities/CT)

... somewhere. You want to be able to monitor them." CT scans are also employed in the diagnosis of stroke, traumas such as neck or back injuries, abdominal pain, appendicitis and fractures. The machine begins ...

10. GE Centricity Enterprise Receives CCHIT
(Company News/GE Healthcare)

... safety needs of healthcare consumers and payers. One script, for example, recreates a scenario of a middle-aged man admitted through the emergency department after sustaining fractures in an automobile ...

11. Bone Densitometers - Global Trends
(Modalities/Radiology )

... (DXA) technology are driving enhancements in the diagnosis of osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, and fracture risk. These and other market data and trends are presented in 'Bone Densitometers: Global ...

12. Power Mobility Benefit for Medicare Beneficiaries
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... than 421,000 were hospitalized.     * Hip fractures from falls cause about 300,000 hospitalizations per year, costing an average of $81,000 per patient.     * In 2001, more ...

13. CompuMed Digital OsteoGram Featured at RSNA 2009
(Company News/CompuMed, Inc.)

... percent of women 67 years of age or older hospitalized for hip fractures currently receive either a bone density test or a prescription for an anti-osteoporosis medication in the six months after hip fracture. ...

14. VIVA 2009 Late-Breaking Trials
(Radiology Conferences/VIVA 2009)

... from major adverse cardiovascular events and no fractures. In the pooled data set, there was a 92.3% patency rate with an 86.6-mm average lesion length. Among the secondary endpoints, average treadmill, ...

15. EHRs prevents 25 percent of hip fractures
(EMR (Electronic Medical Records)/EMR)

If healthcare organizations nationwide did a better job managing patients at risk for osteoporosis, they could cut the rate of hip fractures in the U.S. by 25 percent, and the best way to do so is to collect ...

16. Children Dosen't Need CT Scans After Head Trauma
(Communities/CT)

... circumstances, including the way the injury was sustained, a history of loss of consciousness, neurological status at the time of evaluation and clinical evidence of skull fracture for both age groups. ...

17. SPECT-CT as Influential in Making Talar Lesion Treatment Decisions
(Communities/CT)

... They were also asked to determine the presence of kissing lesions, subchondral cysts and subchondral sclerosis. Based on each scan, the surgeons chose one of the following treatments: microfracture; excision ...

18. Combined Healthcare reform bill may cost imaging $4.3 billion !
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... and vertebral fracture assessment. The study would assess the fairness of Medicare payment rates for such services. The combined bill is not materially different than the previously proposed House legislation, ...

19. Health care reform- Direct Access to Speciality Care
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... company officials, however, that patients with fractures, sports injuries or other musculoskeletal ailments should have direct access to high-quality orthopaedic care. Orthopaedic surgeons are the only ...

20. Passing Health-Care Reform Could Change the Political portrait
(Healthcare Reform/Healthcare Reform)

... for the Democratic coalition to fracture further as the debate nears a conclusion. Liberal and labor union opposition to the Finance Committee bill could collide with the House Blue Dogs and Senate moderates. ...