Lockport, N.Y., October 2, 2008 – After much anticipation and an outpouring of community support during last year’s “Win an MRI” contest, an excited crowd of friends, employees and patrons of Lockport Memorial Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., gathered in the hospital lobby to hear those words they have been waiting to hear: “It’s here!” At today’s official ribbon-cutting ceremony, Lockport announced that its brand new MAGNETOM® ESSENZA 1.5T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is now available to its patients and the community. More

Malvern, Pa., September 29, 2008 – Following a competitive initial development process, Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) announced that Siemens has entered into an exclusive government contract today with the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a prototype Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation cuff (DBAC)*, a life-saving ultrasound device limiting blood loss and shock resulting from combat limb injuries. Partners at the University of Washington’s Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound (UW), the Texas A&M University’s Institute for Preclinical Studies (TIPS) and Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) will work together with Siemens Healthcare to achieve DARPA’s goal of producing a prototype in 18 months. More

Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) highlights its oncology and molecular imaging offerings at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting at the Boston Convention & Exhibit Center in Boston, September 21-25. More

Moving personalized medicine from promise to practice, Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) announces the early study findings of a new imaging biomarker for hypoxic tumors. The study, done in collaboration with Dr. Jian Q. (Michael) Yu, and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, was presented today at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in Nice, France. This imaging biomarker is intended for exclusive world wide distribution by PETNET Solutions, a fully owned Siemens subsidiary. More

For the fifth year, Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) presented the “New Point of View” Preclinical Image of the Year Awards. The awards were conferred this week at the Siemens Preclinical User’s Group Meeting, held in Nice, France. The competitive awards are the company’s way of honoring pioneering researchers and their contributions. More

Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) demonstrates capabilities on its Inveon preclinical imaging system that may shorten the long path to clinical reality in drug discovery with the introduction of enhanced workflow tools at the World Molecular Imaging Congress (booth #107), in Nice, France, September 10-13. Inveon•Workplace provides customers with increased speed, quality and performance in every step of the discovery process, where time is money. More

Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) has received FDA 510(k) market clearance for the Ysio™, a new generation digital radiography system with a wireless detector (wi-D™) for maximum positioning flexibility. More

Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) celebrated completion of a 115,000 square foot facility expansion today at its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Walpole, Massachusetts. Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics is the leading clinical diagnostics company in the world, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of products and solutions used to diagnose, treat and monitor patients around the globe. More

Adding to its current number of CT systems from Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Boston’s Brigham & Women’s (B&W) Hospital, the 777-bed teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, has purchased an additional four CT systems: two SOMATOM® Definition AS 40-slice and two SOMATOM Definition AS+ 128-slice systems. More

When flood waters ravaged Indiana’s Columbus Regional Hospital in June, neighboring community hospital St. Francis in Indianapolis opened its doors to accommodate their oncology staff and patients after normal working hours. More