A deputy with the Jefferson County, Colo., sheriffs office shot and killed an inmate who was attempting to escape during an exam at Advanced Medical Imagings facility, according to a report from KDVR-TV.

GE Healthcare has launched the GEM Suite of surface coils.

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has asked Mary K. Wakefield, PhD, RN, administrator of the Health Research and Services Administration (HRSA) to schedule an in-depth briefing on the issues surrounding the decision to shut down public access to the National Practitioner Data Banks Public Use File.

St. Jude Medical of St. Paul, Minn., has launched Merlin.net Patient Care Network version 5.0, which includes updates to the web-based repository of patient and implantable device data that provides physicians with access to alerts and data transmission to EHRs.

Family history of Alzheimer disease (AD) is associated with several age-related changes that appear to influence AD biomarker abnormalities beyond the increased risk of the APOE4 gene, according to a report published in the October issue of Archives of Neurology. Previously, researchers suspected that AD has a lengthy preclinical period prior to the development of symptoms, in which cerebral lesions accumulate.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded a $5.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance a new method of using MRI technology to create more detailed scans of prostate tumors and other diseased tissue.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., have expanded the medical reach of smartphones, developing an application that can turn the ubiquitous devices into vital sign monitors.

A consolidated class action complaint for violations of federal securities laws has been filed against Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board on the heels of U.K. officials ending plans for building out a nationwide health IT network.