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NMPI Launches Fifth Portable Cardiology Unit

... nuclear Medicine Professionals, Inc. has added a fifth mobile nuclear cardiology unit to its fleet to keep pace with ... Gainesville, FL (PRWEB) August 5, 2009 -- nuclear Medicine Professionals, Inc. (NMPI) announces the ...

MDS Nordion Submits Expression of Interest Proposal to Government of Canada on Medical Isotope and Generator Production

... expertise and guidance from the South African nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa), owner and operator of ... allowing them to be licensed by the Canadian nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for safe operation. ... Mr. Peter Elder, Director General, Directorate of nuclear Cycle and Facilities Regulation, ...

High Calcium Level in Arteries May Signal Serious Heart Attack Risk

... M.D., resident physician in the Department of nuclear Medicine, leader of the research unit for nuclear cardiology and assistant medical director at ... (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging is a nuclear medicine diagnostic procedure that provides ...

High calcium level in arteries may signal serious heart attack risk

... M.D., resident physician in the Department of nuclear Medicine, leader of the research unit for nuclear cardiology and assistant medical director at ... (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging is a nuclear medicine diagnostic procedure that provides ...

Brookhaven Lab and Hybridyne Imaging Technologies Inc., win R&D 100 award

... cancer. The camera system, called ProxiScan, is a nuclear medical instrument that can localize cancer ... diagnosis of prostate cancer include conventional nuclear medical imaging techniques, such as positron ... treatment of the prostate previously. Traditional nuclear imaging systems produce lower-resolution images ...

Improving Care for Cardiac Patients is Centerpiece of American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Meeting

... -- The American Society of nuclear Cardiology ( www.asnc.org ) will host its 14th ... . The American Society of nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) is the leader in education, advocacy, and quality for the field of nuclear cardiology. Serving more than 5,000 individuals ...

MDS Nordion Continues to Urge Government of Canada to Complete MAPLE Project to Address Critical Medical Isotope Shortage

... innovative and increasingly important field of nuclear medicine. "The Government of Canada has put ... the assistance of an international consortium of nuclear experts, the MAPLE facilities could be producing ... in Ottawa, Dr. Harold Smith, ex-Manager, MAPLE nuclear Commissioning, HIZ and Associates Inc., testified ...

New skin cancer patch: Possible alternative to surgery

... and disfiguring disease," said Priyanka Gupta, a nuclear medicine technologist in the Department of nuclear Medicine at All India Institute of Medical ... only for treating skin malignancies, but also for nuclear medicine therapy in general." Every year, ...

MDS Nordion Urges Government of Canada to Complete MAPLE Project to Address Current Medical Isotope Supply Shortage

... and increasingly important field of nuclear medicine. "The current NRU shutdown - and ... the assistance of an international consortium of nuclear experts, the MAPLE facilities could be producing ... O'Brien, President of the Ontario Association of nuclear Medicine and Director ...

Landauer Names Douglas R. Gipson Chief Nuclear Executive

... today that Douglas R. Gipson has been named Chief nuclear Executive, effective May 15, 2009. Gipson will assume overall responsibility for Landauer's Global nuclear Power Business. "We are very pleased to be able ... level and will be integral to Landauer's global nuclear power strategy. Doug is a tremendous addition to ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Reports Progress in Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Clinical Program

... Accepted for Oral Presentation at 2009 Society of nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting -- --Over 65 ... for an oral presentation at the Society of nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting to be held June 13-18, ... our oral presentation at the upcoming Society of nuclear Medicine Annual Meeting," said Steven W. King, ...

Senate Honors Nuclear and Uranium Workers With National Day of Remembrance

... resolution recognizing sacrifices made by nuclear weapons and uranium workers who risked their ... a national day of remembrance for uranium and nuclear weapons workers who served their country during ... , a non-profit organization advocating for nuclear weapons complex workers, launched a campaign to ...

International Isotopes Inc. Announces First Quarter 2009 Financial Results

... was attributable to strong performance in cobalt, nuclear medicine, and radiochemical product business ... sales of the radiochemical iodine. Revenue from nuclear medicine products for the three-month period ... Isotopes Inc. manufactures a full range of nuclear medicine calibration and reference standards, ...

Thinking Systems to Showcase the Company's Upgraded ThinkingPACS(TM) and ThinkingRIS(TM) Solutions

... ) At the 2009 Society of nuclear Medicine (SNM) conference which will be held in ... unique solutions for PET-CT and SPECT-CT fusion; nuclear cardiology possessing, quantification analysis, and template-driven structured reporting; general nuclear medicine processing, and review. The ...

Cocaine Use Among U.S. Workers Declines Sharply in 2008, According to Quest Diagnostics Drug Testing Index(TM)

... which includes pilots, bus drivers, and nuclear power plant operators. The DTI looks at 'recent ... pilots, bus and truck drivers, and workers in nuclear power plants, for whom routine drug testing is ... by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the nuclear Regulatory Commission. About Quest ...

DRAXIMAGE(R)'s generic Sestamibi Approved for launch in USA

... generic Sestamibi through GE Healthcare's nuclear pharmacy network in the US. Commenting on the ... Healthcare is regarded as a strong player in the nuclear medicine market. It has a very strong network of nuclear pharmacies across the US with a considerable ...

Globus Medical Announces International Expansion

... U.S. Navy as Lieutenant Commander, first, on the nuclear attack submarine USS Sturgeon, and later at the ... Institute of Technology , a Master's Degree in nuclear Engineering from the Naval nuclear Power School in Orlando, and an MBA degree from ...

Easy-to-Use Wristband Tells You When to Apply Sunscreen - and When to Hit the Shade

... today." How it works Developed by a nuclear physicist, the UVSunSense wristband technology ... to monitoring devices used for personnel at nuclear power plants or in jobs dealing with nuclear medicine. But instead of measuring gamma rays, ...

Demand for Outpatient Diagnostic Imaging Forecast to Increase by Double Digits Across All Modalities Through 2012

... by double digits across all modalities (CT, nuclear Cardiology, MRI, ultrasound, general radiology, DEXA, PET, mammography, nuclear science) through 2012, with CT volume increasing by nearly 76.9% followed by nuclear cardiography (41.1%) and MRI (39.6%). Some of ...

'Living With Radiation' Conference Commemorating Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Held at United Nations, Sponsored by New York Eye & Ear Infirmary

... who were exposed to radiation after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. ... marks the 23rd anniversary of the worst peacetime nuclear accident, and a significant increase in thyroid ... factors such as (1) exposure to radiation after nuclear tests which were conducted until the early 1960s, ...

Healing heart attack victims, one cell at a time

... of carbon 14 in the atmosphere from above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960, researchers have ... stable until the Cold War, when above-ground nuclear bomb tests caused a sharp increase, or peak, ... found that people born around or after the nuclear bomb tests corresponded to atmospheric ...

Digirad Receives 510(k) for Cardius X-ACT Rapid Cardiac SPECT/VCT Imager

... X-ACT system increases diagnostic confidence in nuclear cardiology and raises the standard in the ... working with a number of top luminary centers in nuclear cardiology, including the Biomedical Institute in ... forward in our strategy to drive the evolution of nuclear cardiac imaging by introducing a series of ...

Ongoing worldwide shortage of medical isotopes could threaten patient care, says expert

... of Nottingham and President Elect of the British nuclear Medical Society (BNMS), will tell the BBC's ... single most beneficial application of atomic and nuclear sciences to mankind. I am advocating further ... (Tc-99m) is used as a radioactive tracer in nuclear medicine investigations such as gamma cameras, ...

Study tracks increasing use of CT on pregnant women

... colleagues conducted a retrospective review of nuclear medicine, CT, fluoroscopy and plain-film x-ray ... of 6.8 percent per year, and the number of nuclear medicine examinations rose by approximately 11.6 ... to 2.91 mGy for fluoroscopy, 0.40 mGy for nuclear medicine and 0.43 mGy for x-rays. Dr. Lazarus ...

Cardiac imaging highlighted at Biennial ICNC-9

... the key international scientific meeting on nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT, is taking place in ... a joint venture between the ESC Working Group on nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Computed Tomography, the European Association of nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the American Society ...

Cardinal Health Extends Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing Network to Nebraska

... 30 highly skilled jobs across the areas of nuclear pharmacy, health physics and radiopharmaceutical ... its production. By locating cyclotrons near its nuclear pharmacy sites, Cardinal Health can quickly ... is adjacent to Cardinal Health's existing nuclear pharmacy in Omaha, giving local patients greater ...

Medical imaging benefits far outweigh radiation risks

... the care they need by qualified, accredited nuclear medicine and molecular imaging physicians." ... trained and credentialed prior to performing a nuclear medicine procedure. For example, at a recent SNM ... held in conjunction with the American College of nuclear Physicians, more than 100 imaging cases were ...

Digirad Corporation Sells Arizona, Nevada Service Hubs

... Services LLC calls for the sale of portable nuclear imaging cameras, vans and related equipment, and ... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented solid-state ... and improved patient comfort compared to standard nuclear cameras. Digirad's 2020tc ...

Medical Radiation Exposure of the U.S. Population Greatly Increased Since the Early 1980s

... utilization of computed tomography (CT) and nuclear medicine. These two imaging modalities alone ... the U.S. population." The number of CT scans and nuclear medicine procedures performed in the United ... ensure that referrals for procedures like CT and nuclear medicine are based on objective, medically ...

Digirad Names Richard B. Slansky Chief Financial Officer

... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented solid-state ... and improved patient comfort compared to standard nuclear cameras. Digirad's 2020tc general-purpose nuclear imager has a small footprint and may also be ...

Jan Ake Gustafsson, M.D., Ph.D., Joins Bionovo's Scientific Advisory Board

... him on current and future indications involving nuclear receptors." Dr. Gustafsson states, "I'm very ... his first pivotal contributions to the field of nuclear receptors, which are proteins that regulate ... Gustafsson is currently building a new Center for nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling at the University ...

Internationally Acclaimed Researcher Joins UH Faculty

... Hormones Expert Gustafsson to Lead Center for nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling at UH and Methodist ... of TMHRI and will head the proposed Center for nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, a collaborative ... "Dr. Gustafsson will join two of the world's top nuclear receptor researchers, TMHRI's Drs. Willa Hsueh ...

Digirad Corporation Sells Northern California Service Hubs

... Office Solutions calls for the sale of portable nuclear imaging cameras, vans and related equipment, and ... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented solid-state ... and improved patient comfort compared to standard nuclear cameras. Digirad's 2020tc ...

Kuwait Purchases 5.4 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drug from Nukepills.com

... stockpiles thyroid-blocking potassium iodide for nuclear radiation emergencies MOORESVILLE, N.C., ... course in protecting its citizens during a nuclear radiation emergency. "This sale is the first ... exposed to radioactive iodine in the event of a nuclear reactor accident or fallout from ...

Digirad Corporation to Release Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results on February 5, 2009

... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented solid-state ... and improved patient comfort compared to standard nuclear cameras. Digirad's 2020tc general-purpose nuclear imager has a small footprint and may also be ...

New Jersey-Based Biotech Start-Up Nexomics Biosciences Gets Off the Ground

... based on large scale protein production, nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and X-ray ... based on large scale protein production, nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and X-ray ... biology, fermentation, protein purification, and nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). "Together with ...

Digirad Corporation Comments on Fourth Quarter Progress

... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented ... cameras. Digirad's 2020tc general-purpose nuclear imager has a small footprint and may also be ... in addition, a mobile fleet of more than 145 nuclear and ultrasound imaging systems is being used in ...

Digirad Corporation CEO to Present at J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco

... applications. Digirad's Cardius XPO line of nuclear imaging cameras use patented ... cameras. Digirad's 2020tc general-purpose nuclear imager has a small footprint and may also be ... in addition, a mobile fleet of more than 145 nuclear and ultrasound imaging systems is being used in ...

SNM's Mid-Winter Educational Symposium for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging professionals

... FL. This year SNM, the American College of nuclear Physicians (ACNP) and the American College of nuclear Medicine (ACNM) unite to create a fused meeting, ... ahead of the curve in the burgeoning fields of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging." SNM's ...

Journal of Nuclear Medicine premiers new, full-color design

... with the January 2009 issue, The Journal of nuclear Medicine SNM's flagship publicationwill be ... M.D., editor in chief of The Journal of nuclear Medicine . "Most important and critical, it ... has spread. The transition of The Journal of nuclear Medicine to full color reflects the vital role ...