Virtual Radiologic Corporation has completed the deployment of vRad® PACS, its proprietary picture communications and archiving system for radiologic case processing. Replacing previously used commercial software, vRad PACS is now being used by all of the Company’s 140 affiliated radiologists to perform clinical interpretations on radiologic cases transmitted in real-time from over 7,400 different image sending devices located at more than 1,150 medical facilities across the United States.

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Toshiba’s Aquilion® ONE dynamic volume CT system has the ability to improve the quality of life for patients with neurological symptoms, by reducing diagnosis time to minutes. Highlighting these capabilities, Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. featured the Aquilion ONE at this year’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting. The Aquilion ONE allows physicians to reduce diagnosis time for life-threatening conditions such as a stroke from hours or days to minutes.

K2M, Inc. has announced the launch of the TERRA NOVA^® Minimally Invasive Access System and the SERENGETI^® Disposable Kit at the North American Spine Society (NASS) 2009 Annual Conference. TERRA NOVA is a minimally invasive spine-based access system used in conjunction with K2M’s revolutionary SERENGETI percutaneous retractor. TERRA NOVA has the potential to minimize tissue disruption by utilizing a small incision and muscle splitting technique.

The Polish unit of Alliance Medical has started the provision of mobile magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) services for two healthcare providers in Northern Poland. The new customers are Swissmed, the listed healthcare group with a specialty hospital and a network of clinics in Gdansk; and the J. Korczak Specialty Hospital in Slupsk. Both have chosen the mobile option as more cost-efficient and flexible.

Covidien has launched Mallinckrodt TaperGuard and TaperGuard Evac endotracheal tubes. The TaperGuard line of endotracheal tubes incorporates a taper-shaped cuff made from polyvinylchloride. The TaperGuard Evac endotracheal tube additionally provides for secretion drainage through an integrated suction lumen. As a result, the TaperGuard Evac endotracheal tube is associated with a reduction in ventilator-associated pneumonia. Microaspiration refers to the entry of foreign material into the respiratory tract.

ExonHit Therapeutics S.A. has announced the availability of its new SpliceArray™ for use in studying mouse models of human disease. These SpliceArrayTM products help our clients accelerate their therapeutic target discovery and validation efforts. Using our high resolution expression profiling analysis, we identify novel transcripts coding for new protein variants that may be involved in various genetic disorders such as oncology, central nervous system, or immune system disorders. This mouse SpliceArrayTM products represent the achievement of more two years of work by our R&D team after the launch of the Human genome SpliceArrayTM and the rat genome SpliceArrayTM.