LONDON, UK, 23 January 2014 - Both China and India’s diagnostic ultrasound market values will experience significant growth over the coming years, achieving respective Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) of 7.1% and 9.6% between 2012 and 2019, according to a new report from research and consulting firm GlobalData.

YOQNEAM, Israel, Jan. 23, 2014 -- Given Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq:GIVN) announced that at a special shareholders' meeting held today in Yoqneam, Israel, the shareholders of the Company approved the Merger Proposal described in the Proxy Statement dated December 24, 2013, including the merger between the Company and a subsidiary of Covidien Group S.a.r.l., a Luxembourg company and an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Covidien plc, as a result of which the Company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Covidien.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 23 — Leading healthcare professionals again applauded Carestream’s DRX Systems for offering excellent performance that exceeded expectations—along with strong reliability—in MD Buyline’s Market Intelligence Briefing™ for the Fourth Quarter of 2013.

Reston, Va. (Jan. 18, 2014) – The American College of Radiology (ACR) has named William T. Thorwarth, Jr., M.D., FACR, chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 2014. A practicing diagnostic radiologist with Catawba Radiological Associates in Hickory, N.C., Thorwarth has previously served as ACR President, chair of the ACR Economics Commission, member of the ACR Board of Chancellors and most recently on the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors. Thorwarth was also honored with the ACR Gold Medal in 2010.

Plymouth Township, Mich. - Jan. 7, 2014 - Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc., innovator and developer of a new ultrasound platform that images the entire breast, has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the SoftVue™ whole breast ultrasound tomography system, approved for diagnostic breast imaging.

HOUSTON, Jan. 7, 2014 -- The Department of Pediatric Radiology at Texas Children's Hospital is excited to announce that Dr. Kamlesh U. Kukreja has been named the new chief of Interventional Radiology. Kukreja, whose appointment was effective Jan. 1, has also been appointed as Assistant Professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). For more information about interventional radiology at Texas Children's visit texaschildrens.org.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 8, 2014 -- Parkinson's disease is a neurological disorder that affects the central nervous system and currently afflicts over one million people in North America, and more than five million people worldwide, according to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. While medication can curb symptoms, one of the most heartbreaking aspects of Parkinson's disease is that medications often lose efficacy as the disease progresses.

Like many people, Chris Tirabassi has watched the political parties duke it out over the relative merits of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. As practice administrator for CNY Diagnostic Imaging Associates LLC (Liverpool, New York), however, he has little time for philosophical discussion. Instead, Tirabassi is knee-deep in the meaningful-use mandates of the HITECH Act, as they apply to CNY’s Syracuse-area private practice of six radiologists.