An expert review panel on medical isotope production delivered a report to Canada’s minister of natural resources, stating that the path to security of the isotope supply lay in diversied plan, including buidling a new reactor as a source of production.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has entered a cooperative agreement with Michigan State University (MSU) to provide financial assistance to design and establish the university's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s (AECL) NRU reactor was restarted on Dec. 11, following the completion of its scheduled, but extended, maintenance outage that lasted one week. However, the medical shortage continues to baffle the nuclear medicine community.
Scientists in Canada have discovered that intense beams of light could generate isotopes for nuclear medicine and eliminate the security risks associated with making the medicines with weapons-grade uranium at the aging nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont.
Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), which operates the recently shuttered nuclear reactor in Petten, in northwestern Netherlands, announced Wednesday it would not restart the reactor before the end of October.
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The long-standing shutdown of the Chalk River nuclear reactor has jeopardized the supply of radioactive iodine to treat thyroid cancer to such an extent that Health Canada has fast-tracked the approval of an Iodine-131 supply from the South African Safari reactor, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.
The University of Missouri has initiated a project that could potentially make the university the producer of half the supply of molybdenum-99 in the United States within four years.
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich., to design and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a research facility to advance understanding of nuclear isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos.
Following the shutdowns of the High Flux Reactor, in Petten,
Netherlands, and the IRE production site, in Fleurus, Belgium, both of
which provide the radioisotope molybdenum, the Association of
Imaging Producers and Equipment Suppliers (AIPES) has assembled
stakeholders, from reactor operators to physicians, to ensure isotope
delivery.
Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation has entered into a
five-year agreement with Central Radiopharmaceutical Services for
the joint production and marketing of Indium-111, an isotope used in
specialized diagnostic imaging applications.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.
In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.
When officials at Howard Memorial Hospital in Nashville, Ark., started drawing up plans for a new facility that opened in July 2009, Cindy York, the hospital’s director of radiology, had to make some decisions.