GE Healthcare has invested $1 billion to set up an advanced research lab in Bangalore, India. The lab will be established at the John Welch Technology Centre in Whitefield, which covers an area of 50,000 ft2 to develop global products, reports Pharmabiz.
With this funding, the total investment in India by GE Healthcare for this [...]

BEDFORD, Sept. 29 2009 Hologic, Inc. (Hologic or the Company) (NASDAQ: HOLX ), a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, today announced it has received CE marking approval for its ThinPrep® integrated imager. The ThinPrep integrated imager was introduced [...]

The GCC healthcare sector is predicted to grow by nine percent annually and will be worth up to $55bn by 2020, according to new research published on Monday.
GCC countries are likely to experience a sharp increase in healthcare needs primarily led by a growing and ageing population and a rise in chronic non-communicable “lifestyle” diseases, [...]

Philips Lumileds announced today that it has opened a new office in Shanghai that is being staffed with an applications team and market specialists to support the growing number of companies in China developing solid-state lighting solutions. The applications team and specialists will support customers as they design systems for reliability, efficiency and performance. By [...]

DUBAI — Heart attack-related medical services in the UAE need a boost, according to senior health specialist Dr Klaus T Kallmayer, chairman of German Heart Centre Bremen in Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC).
He said the treatment of acute and life-threatening conditions such as heart attack is insufficient in the country on World Heart Day which was [...]

Royal Derby Hospital (RDH), part of Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, recently treated its first radical patient case on the ARTISTE IGRT Solution linear accelerator from Siemens Healthcare. RDH is the first UK site to install the system.
The Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) ARTISTE Solution is a linear accelerator specifically for Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART). This [...]

Electronic health-record vendors are denying their latest marketing tactic is an attempt to reawaken a dormant market put to sleep as an unintended consequence of federal economic stimulus efforts.
But guarantees that products will meet future federal definitions of “meaningful use” are becoming the order of the day—even if no one is sure what that definition [...]

GE Healthcare brings innovative technology and inspired dialogue surrounding new advances in molecular imaging to the 2009 World Molecular Imaging Congress
MONTREAL, CA, — GE Healthcare joins industry leaders in development of imaging technologies and molecular imaging agents at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (WMIC) September 23 through 26 in Montreal, Canada. GE will highlight its [...]

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—Physician preference items (PPIs), a term used to describe a range of medical supplies, such as pricey orthopedic implants and cardiovascular devices, are estimated at 60% of a hospital’s total supply costs. With operating costs increasing and margins from both operations and pooled investments declining, many hospital executives—once willing to quietly overlook the [...]

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA–The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) and the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association (SFHHA) today announce an agreement with the ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization (PSO) to support the Patient Safety Organization of Florida (PSOFlorida) with patient safety data collection and analysis. PSOFlorida, a component organization of the FHA and the SFHHA, was [...]

ECRI Institute Announces Most-Downloaded Reports for August 2009
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—What issues have been on the minds of healthcare decision makers most recently? High-tech issues. Healthcare decision makers consider computer-assisted imaging and robotic technology procedures and equipment as important, according to ECRI Institute® (www.ecri.org), an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient [...]

An increase in of chronic diseases and the ageing of population in Saudi is expected to be a cause of the Saudi Arabia’s healthcare market which could grow by up to 12 percent by 2012. According to research company RNCOS. “The healthcare sector in Saudi Arabia seems very promising and is expected to outpace the [...]

India’s Ministry of Tourism (MoT) will organise medical tourism road shows in the Middle East this October, in a bid to increase medical tourism traffic from countries in the region to India. The road shows will be held in UAE (Dubai), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), Kuwait (Kuwait city), and Qatar (Doha) from October 2 – 10, [...]

Siemens Healthcare has introduced a dedicated ultrasound system for obstetrics and gynaecology, the Acuson X300 ultrasound system, PremiumEdition (PE) — Women’s Imaging. The system features exceptional clinical performance across all modes, including 3D/4D imaging.
Unique workflow tools such as automated biometry measurements of the foetus streamline the exam process for greater patient throughput. Compact, highly portable, [...]

Montreal, Canada – Siemens Healthcare has announced today its initial findings of a new imaging biomarker device developed by its molecular imaging biomarker research facility in collaboration with Dr. Jian Q. (Michael) Yu and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The new imaging agent was designed to capture and quantify the cellular expression of CA-IX, [...]