Leveraging the Third Amendment Ruling the Risk Management Process: Frost & Sullivan’s Assessment of Regulations for Medical Imaging Equipment in Europe

September 14th, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Ghana's healthcare industry is experiencing growth across a range of sectors. However, the drive towards improved diagnostic capability has led to high demand for medical imaging devices.

September 12th, 2009 Medical Imaging Markets, Volume I: Radiography (X-Ray, Digital X-Ray, Fluoroscopy, Mammography, and CT Markets) Report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Medical-Imaging-Markets-Volume-I-Radiography-X-Ray-Digital-X-Ray-Fluoroscopy-Mammography-and-CT-Markets.html ) estimates that the reinvigorated market for medical imaging systems employing x-rays has undoubtedly been propelled by the explosion of digital technology. But also, the expanded role of imaging modalities in a whole host of clinical applications from trauma to cancer to cardiology has increased the profile of radiography while enabling computer technologies expand the usefulness of traditional x-ray techniques.

July 20th, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Adverse economic conditions, the rising cost of healthcare and decreased donor funding to sub-Saharan Africa are posing major challenges to the medical imaging markets in many countries in the region. Price sensitivity and competition in these markets are expected to increase due to the current financial constraints faced by many healthcare institutions.

July 12th, 2009 LONDON - The market for most medical imaging devices is at a mature phase. Most unit shipment sales are geared towards the replacement of older systems.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - The Frost & Sullivan "2009 European Gastroenterology Technology Implementation of the Year Award," is presented to Ireland-based Crospon for successfully using the impedance planimetry technique in its novel EndoFLIP(R) (endoluminal functional lumen imaging probe) imaging system. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO) "With EndoFLIP(R), Crospon has addressed the urgent need for a clinically acceptable diagnostic platform targeting gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)," states Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Prasanna Vadhana Kannan.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - Diagnostic display monitors experienced slow growth in 2007 due to picture archiving and communication system (PACS) installations across radiology departments of European hospitals having reached saturation. However, favourable regulations mandating the sales of 5MP displays for digital mammography have ensured high-volume sales in several European countries.

June 8th, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The medical imaging market in Kenya is set for steady growth over the next five years, driven by an aging population demanding greater access to imaging and diagnostic procedures. However, price sensitivity and competition in the market remain high due to the sizeable capital investment required to purchase imaging systems and the financial constraints faced by many healthcare institutions in the country.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Global and European Awards recognise Healthcare Excellence The Healthcare industry's top performers were honoured at Frost & Sullivan's 'Excellence in Healthcare Awards Banquet' on Thursday 19 March at ZSL London Zoo, London. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO ) In a time of economic uncertainty, these awards are a testament to the Healthcare industry's continued success and growth, with companies awarded across various disciplines including Product Innovation, Green Excellence, Product Quality, Research Excellence and Company of the Year.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Medical images are increasingly becoming digitised. However, the exponential growth of digitised medical images poses an immense challenge in terms of management, compression and retrieval.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - MPs have tabled an amendment seeking to legalise assisting the suicide of any vulnerable person, not restricted to the terminally ill. The amendment tabled by Patricia Hewitt and others would legalise helping any vulnerable person to commit suicide.

April 23rd, 2009 Defense investigators raid Siemens Medical in Pa.PHILADELPHIA — Criminal investigators with the Defense Department searched the headquarters of Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Wednesday in connection with a government contract, weeks after the firm won a $267 million medical-imaging contract. Agents of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service arrived at the sprawling complex in Malvern, near Philadelphia, in the morning and were still onsite hours later.

January 11th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Sadie Frost, who has moved on from her marriage with actor Jude Law, says she is too busy with work now to think of romance. According to mirror.co.uk, Frost just returned from a break with Law.

April 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists in the U.S. hope to bring the minimalist approach to medical care with the use of a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of the hand.

July 1st, 2009 VCA Antech buys Eklin for undisclosed amountLOS ANGELES — Veterinary services provider VCA Antech Inc. said Wednesday it bought Eklin Medical Systems Inc.

May 3rd, 2009 Obama: Wall Street will play less dominant roleWASHINGTON — Wall Street is not going to play as dominant a role in the economy as regulations reduce "some of the massive leveraging and the massive risk-taking that had become so common," President Barack Obama says. The changes in the role of Wall Street and the huge profits that came from that risk-taking could mean other adjustments as well, Obama said in an interview in this week's New York Times Magazine.

April 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new study conducted at the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA, has found that majority of ordering physicians lack knowledge of CT-related radiation exposure and its associated risks. "More than 100 surveys were completed by physicians from various specialties who order CT scans at a tertiary-care teaching hospital," said Jeremy McBride, MD, lead author of the study.

April 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Marrying ultrasound technology with a smartphone, computer experts have created a compact, mobile, palm-sized medical imaging device. William D. Richard, associate professor and research associate David Zar at the computer science and engineering department of Washington University have made commercial ultrasound probes compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smartphones, thanks to a $100,000 Microsoft grant.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - By combining two nanoparticles in one tiny package, University of Washington researchers have created a Swiss Army knife of sorts for medical imaging and therapy. The multipurpose nanotechnology tool could perform wide range of medical uses - imaging tumours, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat.

August 1st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A novel chemical imaging technique, called Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging (ATR-FTIR imaging), may one day help fight atherosclerosis, say researchers. Atherosclerosis is the disease underlying most heart attacks and strokes and it is characterised by lesions in the arteries, made of fats, collagen and cells.

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Economic Survey for 2008-09 tabled Thursday has called for banking and financial market reforms, including increasing foreign investment in banks in a phased manner and lifting of ban on commodity futures. It also called for expediting passage of the Banking Regulations (Amendment) Bill and allowing high net worth individuals to invest directly in capital markets rather than go through the controversial participatory notes route.