"This was passed literally in the wee hours of the night, " says Mark Vachon, GE's president of global diagnostic imaging.

FORBES: Cranking Up the Volume

Dr Zhou has set up a joint venture with Siemens, a German company that builds CT scanners, to develop his technology for diagnostic imaging.

ECONOMIST: Modern X-ray technology

Acquisitions include French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, which GE folded into its NBC Universal unit, along with diagnostic imaging company Amersham and natural gas systems supplier Vector Gray.

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Officials plan to launch the full program this fall, with bachelor's degrees in subjects including information technology and diagnostic imaging, plus master's and bachelor's degrees for registered nurses.

WSJ: College Degree, No Class Time Required

Another company that I like a lot is a medial diagnostic and imaging system company by the name of Digirad ( DRAD).

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The sequencing of the human genome, the application of powerful genetic tools to identify human disease genes, and the development of powerful imaging and diagnostic tools now make it possible to tackle the causes of diseases more systematically and broadly than ever before.

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