Siemens Canada Healthcare has received a Health Canada medical device license for the Biograph mMR, a whole-body molecular MR with simultaneous MR and PET data acquisition.

7T MRI may provide the key to improved patient selection and surgical planning for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy, according to research published online July 11 in Radiology.

Assessing the outcomes of nearly 37,000 visitors to Florida who became ill and needed emergency treatment, researcher Joseph J. Doyle, economist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that high spending areas have significantly lower inpatient mortality rates compared to low-spending areas, according to a study published in the American Economic Journal.

An interactive computer software program appears to be effective in helping patients manage their type 2 diabetes using their mobile phones, according to a study to be published in the September issue of Diabetes Care.

U.K. researchers have found pulse oximetry screening to be effective in early diagnosis of congenital heart defects in newborns, according to study findings published Aug. 5 in The Lancet. However, the accompanying editorialists argued that the evidence still seems unsatisfying.

A virtual elastic sphere processing tool offers a quantifiable, reproducible mechanism to measure vessel stenosis on CT angiography and MR angiography datasets, according to a study published online July 25 in Radiology.

Midwest biomedical companies have raised $315.1 million in the first half of the year, according to a report from Cleveland-based healthcare advocacy group BioEnterprise, which noted particular substantial investment growth in Ohio-based medical start-ups.

The FDA has approved Medtronics investigational device exemption application and clinical trial protocol to begin evaluating Advisa DR MRI SureScan pacing system.