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San Jose Radioisotope shortage

Letter urges Congress not to import Russian medical isotopes

  • medical isotopes
  • January 18, 2012
In November, 2011, the US Senate passed S. 99, the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2011, after public health, medical and nuclear...
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Patients warned to expect nuclear imaging test delays due to worldwide radioisotope shortage

The Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM) issued a press release last week stating that “from March 21 until April 11 the medical community will...
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Florida doctors nervous over new radioisotope shortage

With this week’s shutdown of the Netherlands’s Petten nuclear reactor, many American doctors including those in Florida are getting...
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GE to help solve US radioisotope shortage

In a press release this week, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy announced that the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration...
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US medical radioisotope shortage will continue in 2010

Most people never think about over 50,000 medical procedures requiring an injection of a radioactive isotope called technetium-99 that are...
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Radioisotope shortage a crisis for patients

A medical isotope is a very small amount of radioactive material used to perform nuclear medicine imaging tests. Different formulations of isotopes...
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