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SNM's 2009 Annual Meeting Showcases Latest Advances in Molecular Imaging and Nuclear Medicine
World's leading researchers and molecular imaging specialists convened in Toronto to share groundbreaking research RESTON, Va.More than 5,800 physicians, technologists and members of the molecular imaging and nuclear medicine communities met...
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Molybdenum muddle
Isotope issues just keep hanging over the head of nuclear medicine.Once again, when one highly enriched uranium reactor goes down, it takes a significant percentage of the world's production of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) along with it. When...
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Happy Returns
When it comes to coding, the old saying holds true: The devil is in the details.But with the right perspectives and proper documentation, coding doesn't have to be one of those experiences from hell. First, every piece of radiology...
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Canadian Reactor Shutdown Slows Nuclear Medicine
TORONTO, June 17 -- A shutdown at a Canadian reactor is limiting the supply of isotopes used in nuclear medicine for the second time in two years.'Tests have been delayed, treatment has been delayed, and referring physicians are becoming...
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Government Of Canada Supports Research To Help Address Medical Isotope Shortage
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced recently that the Government of Canada is supporting research to find alternatives to nuclear-produced Technetium-99m, the principal medical isotope affected by the current...
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Canadian government supports research to help address medical isotope shortage
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announces that the Canadian government is supporting research to find alternatives to nuclear-produced Technetium-99m, the principal medical isotope affected by the current shutdown at...
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Opportunity Amidst Isotope Crisis
- Our profession faces one of the most significant crisis' in its history, stated Michael Graham, M.D., the new president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), as he addressed a room packed with national and international press, hungry...
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Government of Canada supports research to help address medical isotope shortage
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced today that the Government of Canada is supporting research to find alternatives to nuclear-produced Technetium-99m, the principal medical isotope affected by the current...
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Government of Canada supports research to help address medical isotope shortage
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced today that the Government of Canada is supporting research to find alternatives to nuclear-produced Technetium-99m, the principal medical isotope affected by the current...
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Australia could supply nuclear medicine to USA
The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation has set up a deal with US medical imaging company Lantheus Medical Imaging to supply the medical isotope molybdenum-99, once Australian regulatory processes for production are...
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Government Of Canada Approves A New Source Of Medical Isotopes
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, announced the approval of a new source of Technetium-99m (Tc-99m) for Canada.Health Canada has authorized Lantheus Medical Imaging of Boston, Massachusetts to use Molybdenum 99 ...
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Lantheus to Receive Mo-99 Isotopes from Australian, First to Supply U.S. Market
- Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc.today said it finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) to receive the nuclear imaging radiotracer component molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced from low...
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Lantheus inks Mo-99 supply deal with Australia
Lantheus Medical Imaging has finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) to receive molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced from low-enriched uranium (LEU) targets in its new Open Pool Australian...
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Scientists Who Made Significant Contribution to Discovery of Lantheus Medical Imagings Cardiolite Honored
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, congratulates the team of scientists whose research served as the primary foundation for the development of the companys leading imaging agent, Cardiolite (Kit for the...
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Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. to Receive LEU-Derived Mo-99 From Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org
News source: Business Wire Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, has finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) to receive molybdenum-99 (Mo-99)...
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Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. to Receive LEU-Derived Mo-99 From Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org
BILLERICA, Mass.& LUCAS HEIGHTS, Australia-(Business Wire)-June 13, 2009 - Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, has finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology...
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Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. to Receive LEU-Derived Mo-99 From Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, has finalized an arrangement with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) to receive molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced from low-enriched...
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NUCLEAR MEDICINEIsotope shortage
Think the medical isotope shortage of 2007 was bad?Just wait until the middle of July, 2009? For the first time, the world's two main isotope-producing nuclear reactors will be out of service at the same time. The 52-year-old Chalk...
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Covidien to Highlight Technetium-99m Development at SNM
- Covidien will be highlighting at the 2009 SNM Annual Conference in Toronto, June 13-17, its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for its kit for the preparation of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi injection and radiosotope...
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BARI 2D Study Presented at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Underscores Utility of SPECT Myoc
- Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, today recognizes and comments on the primary outcome findings of The Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) study presented at the...
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BARI 2D Study Presented at American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions Underscores Utility of SPECT Myoc
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic imaging, today recognizes and comments on the primary outcome findings of The Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation 2 Diabetes (BARI 2D) study presented at the...
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Some major hospitals in Ontario say they are unable to conduct certain tests for cancer because of the shortag
Doctors fear without those tests, finding potential cancers could be delayed.The problem originates with the four-week-old shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor, which has reduced much of the world's supply of medical isotopes.
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Some major hospitals in Ontario say they are unable to conduct certain tests for cancer because of the shortag
Doctors fear without those tests, finding potential cancers could be delayed.The problem originates with the four-week-old shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor, which has reduced much of the world's supply of medical isotopes.
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New Alternatives For Bone Imaging Could Be On The Horizon
On June 4, the U.S.Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it is considering a pathway for coverage of Sodium Fluoride (NaF-18) for PET bone imaging as an alternative to Technetium-99m imaging. Currently,...
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When a hot nodule is not a toxic thyroid adenoma
A 43-year-old woman presented to an endocrine clinic for the evaluation of an enlarging goiter.The patient had complained of an enlarging neck over the prior 12 months with no compressive symptoms. A technetium-99m thyroid scan...
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