Blogs your wayDeviceSpace (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
LOS ANGELES, July 29 (Reuters) - Varian Medical Systems Inc's (VAR.N) quarterly profit rose by a better-than-expected 15 percent due in part to cost cutting, but the company said net orders were down and revenue was flat.
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Varian Medical Systems Inc. on Wednesday reported third quarter net income of $85.4 million, or 68 cents a share, compared to net income in the same period last year of $74.2 million, or 58 cents a share. (VAR)
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Varian Medical Systems Inc. said late Wednesday that its fiscal third-quarter profit rose to $85.4 million, or 68 cents a share, from $74.2 million, or 58 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue rose to $509.8 million from $507.4 million last year. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research estimated a quarterly profit of 63 cents a share on revenue of $535 million....
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Varian Medical Systems Inc. said Thursday it acquired the assets of IKOEmed and IKOEtech, suppliers of software used in the planning of radiotherapy and radiosurgery treatments, for about $2.2 million. (VAR)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2009
BrachyVision Acuros Enables Superior Dose Calculation with Unmatched SpeedCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A significantly more accurate* way of calculating the dosimetry of cancer treatments will be introduced by Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: ) at the GEC-ESTRO exhibition in Porto, Portgual, on May 14-16. BrachyVision(TM) Acuros(TM) enables clinicians to rapidly calculate patient...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/03/2009
Varian Medical Systems is introducing a new brachytherapy applicator set which is hoped to increase treatment precision and aid comfort for patients suffering from bronchial cancer. The Centering Intraluminal Applicator set is being made available for use with Varian's GammaMed™ and VariSource™ brachytherapy afterloaders.
Medgadget (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
Varian Medical Systems has introduced a new bronchoscopic brachytherapy applicator set, the Centering Intraluminal Applicator™, that the company says will increase treatment precision and aid comfort for patients suffering from bronchial cancer. According to the press release, the new system features a novel catheter that enables a centered position of the source in the lumen of the trachea or...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 04/29/2009
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) today reported net earnings from continuing operations of $0.64 per diluted share in the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 versus net earnings from continuing operations of $0.57 per diluted share in the year-ago quarter.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
"The paper summarizes the results of clinical studies on the treatment of prostate cancer," Huntzinger said. "It shows that surgery doesn't always eliminate the cancer, and it has other significant acute and chronic side effects. Non-invasive external beam radiotherapies can be quite effective, but the high doses needed for controlling cancer must be delivered with great care to minimize...
DeviceSpace (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
BERN, Switzerland, April 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A 51-year old female cancer patient from Switzerland has become the first patient outside the U.S. to be treated with RapidArc(TM) radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR - News) on a Novalis Tx(TM) platform for radiosurgery and radiotherapy. Doctors at Inselspital, the Bern University Hospital, used the Novalis...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/21/2009
Clinicians in India have carried out the country's first treatment using a new, faster form of radiotherapy that extends more advanced care to more patients. A 72-year-old bladder cancer patient received the pioneering treatment using RapidArc radiotherapy technology from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) at Yashoda Cancer Institute in Hyderabad.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 04/20/2009
CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Patriot Scientific Corporation (OTCBB: PTSC) announced today that Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR) has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ Portfolio license from The TPL
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/17/2009
CMEF Booth #H1/F38 - Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (NYSE: VAR), a premier supplier of X-ray tubes and flat panel digital X-ray image detectors will exhibit its line of PaxScan flat panel X-ray image detectors for digital radiography (DR) at the China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) meeting in Shenzhen, China, April 18 - 21, 2009.
Financial24 (Free subscription) | 04/16/2009
SALT LAKE CITY, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMEF Booth #H1/F38 - Varian Medical Systems, Inc. , a premier supplier of X-ray tubes and flat panel digital X-ray image detectors will exhibit its
EmailWire.Com (Free subscription) | 04/14/2009
(EMAILWIRE.COM, April 14, 2009 ) DALLAS, Texas – Beacon Equity Research announces the release of Trade Alerts covering market movers: Gymboree Corp. (Nasdaq: GYMB), MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR), Varian Medical Systems Inc. (NYSE: VAR), Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), Chevron Corp. (NYSE:...
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