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If you are not aware of the isotope nuclear plant closure, read the related reading below as there may end up being some long waits for some nuclear cancer treatments due to the closure. Now, back to the story here, this is strange as to why it was called “sexy”. If you are going to record a conversation...
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No doubt there will be shortages if the reactor in Canada ends up being down for 8 months potentially. It appears that France, Argentina and Belgium will be holding up the show with production as there are only 5 facilities in the world who manufacture the product. If you are being...
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The United States does not produce isotopes so the alternatives are the Netherlands, Belgium, France and South Africa. there are only 5 plants in the world that produce isotopes. As Mo-99 generators have a half life of just 66 hours, supply disruptions occur quickly. Hospitals not getting...
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The facility was shut down last Thursday after a power outage. What this means to patients and hospitals are delays, depending on how long the plant is down. We don’t produce any isotopes here in the US, but certainly use a lot of them with nuclear surgery, seeding procedures to target tissue...
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This is an interesting story all the way around. First of all I hope all the medical devices found were disconnected from the Internet until the FDA gives the stamp of approval. The manufacturer also said the device was not meant to be connected to the internet, but it was. Last week...
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This a brand new technique and is not FDA approved yet, but they are hoping by the end of the year to have approval on this process. There is a video at the link that explains more. From the pictures below it certainly looks at though it has done something for the patient who had a brain tumor...
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Tue, Feb 24 2009
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If you watch any of the CSI series on television, you probably have already seen a glimpse or two at the morgue on the shows. With a virtual autopsy the pathologist has a permanent 3D record of the body, so the use of CT scans and MRI could be the next tools in line. Of course, there’s still...
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This kind of thing really does happen with people that are too heavy and depends on the part of the body being scanned too, I have heard this from physicians that they have had to send patients to a veterinary facility before. So what do we do, build bigger MRIs in this sagging economy, or lose...
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An 8 year old MRI unit was being returned to the manufacturer. The FDA does not track these incidents and there have been around 5 of them and they mostly go unreported. One unit exploded in the middle of the night on it’s own. The video below was from 2006 and most of the incidents...
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The 3D Slicer project has been funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health. Slicer is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, so it looks like almost everyone is covered here. From the software side of things it has plug-in capabilities that can interoperate with...
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Fri, Oct 3 2008
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Dictation services for Radiology with the integration of the two services. More about the hospital integration services can be found here. Recently I have posted about Philips and their investments with the manufacturing of MRI machines in China as well, so they have a pretty large portfolio...
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Last year when the facility shut down in Canada shutdown about 50,000 medical tests and procedures were canceled. This week Petten reactor in The Netherlands went down with technical problems. There are only 5 major facilities in the world that product Isotopes. A reactor in Belgium...
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Good article about the diagnosis process....we have all the medical equipment to perform such tests, but many times insurance companies will not pay, or sometimes is it easier to just prescribe a pill....the story shows some surprising results and offers additional information, such as determining an...