Nuclear Medicine News

Coinciding with the observance of Nuclear Medicine Week and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month , SNM released today a new fact sheet highlighting recent developments in molecular imaging technologies that ...

Starting this month, patients having radiology procedures at Colorado Plains Medical Center will have the added benefit of subspecialty-trained radiologists from Advanced Medical Imaging Consultants P.C. ...

To this day, technetium-99m is still the most commonly used radioisotope and the workhorse in clinical nuclear medicine imaging, with more than 35,000 procedures done in the United States every day.

They are used in cancer treatments, automobile sensors, cell phones, blood sugar monitors and hydrogen gas production.

Gold nanoparticles are everywhere. They are used in cancer treatments, automobile sensors, cell phones, blood sugar monitors and hydrogen gas production.

New York, Sep 17 : An Indian American doctor, Mathew L. Thakur has been conferred the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 2008 Benedict Cassen Prize, often called the 'Nobel' of nuclear medicine.

Literally thousands of hospital and outpatients in the United States and other parts of the globe will be missing out on important medical diagnostic testing due to a severe shortage of radioactive tracers, ...

Thousands of patients in the USA may face delays in getting key medical tests because of a global shortage of radioactive tracers, which are used to perform bone scans and to assess blood flow to the heart, ...

A shutdown announced at a nuclear reactor facility at Petten in the Netherlands threatens the ability of countries across the globe to access and obtain radioactive isotopes, which are critical for performing ...

A file photo of the nuclear facility at Chalk River, Ont. The reactor supplies crucial medical isotopes for hospitals around the world.

Champagne with raspberries and red-white-and blue confetti kicked off the opening of the downtown Baltimore Hilton, the city's largest publicly financed project.

The Minister for Health and Human Services, Lara Giddings, today announced the approval of plans for a PET scanner at the Hobart Private Hospital.

THRISSUR: The fourth annual conference of the southern chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine here on Saturday called for better application of nuclear medicine in hospitals in the State and installation of ...

Main Category: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 29 Jul 2008 - 2:00 PDT The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Health, welcomed the report of an ad hoc advisory group of health specialists that has ...

When meeting planner Jane Day came to St. Louis for the Society of Nuclear Medicine 's annual meeting in 2000, the group's director of meeting services was underwhelmed.

If you couldn't make it to New Orleans this year for the Society of Nuclear Medicine's annual meeting, these photos from the conference will catch you up to speed.

Philips is expanding its portfolio of nuclear medicine products by introducing a new system called BrightView XCT that should enable "low patient dose levels, high-resolution localization and high-quality ...

"There is an urgent need to find new approaches to treating and preventing viral cancers," said Ekaterina Dadachova, associate professor of nuclear medicine and microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein ...

Immunomedics, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing monoclonal antibodies to treat cancer and other serious diseases, described today at the 55th annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear ...

Main Category: Medical Devices Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; MRI / PET / Ultrasound ; Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 18 Jun 2008 - 1:00 PDT Naviscan PET Systems, a company specializing in ...