Topic: Medical Imaging and Diagnostics
AP News | 2010-02-09 21:51:09
FILE - In this June 15, 2007 file photo, Michael Gomez, a nuclear medicine technologist, talks to a patient before a positron emission tomography cat scan, or PET-CT, at River Radiology in Kingston, N.Y, In a proposal announced Tuesday, Feb ...
Reuters US Online Report Health News | 2010-02-09 19:44:59
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials want manufacturers of CT machines and certain other medical imaging devices to incorporate new safeguards to help reduce patient exposure to radiation.</p><p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it planned to issue requirements for manufacturers to use when ...
AP Features | 2010-02-09 18:57:16
<div><p>The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it will work with doctors and manufacturers to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical scans, a problem that has been growing for decades.</p><p>The initiative will focuses on high-grade forms of imaging, including CT scans, nuclear medicine and fluoroscopy. Since the ...
AP News | 2010-02-01 20:40:58
<div id="subtitle">Hefty charges drag down Hologic's fiscal 1st-quarter profit, but results top expectations</div><div><p>Hologic Inc., which makes mammogram systems and other women's health diagnostic tools, said Monday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell 32 percent, hurt by charges and continued capital spending restraint by hospitals.< ...
