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Experts discount JAMA study urging discharge of chest pain patients

By Eric Barnes

Low-risk chest pain patients should be sent home without imaging, concludes a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine. But several experts are disputing the study's main finding that treadmill stress tests, as well as CT and other imaging tests, have no value in preventing heart attacks in low-risk individuals.

January 25, 2015

Lantheus enters supply deal for xenon-133 gas

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Lantheus Medical Imaging has entered into a new strategic agreement with the National Institute for Radioelements in Fleurus, Belgium, for a future supply of xenon-133 gas.

January 21, 2015

Navidea unveils plans for Macrophage Therapeutics

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals has signed a nonbinding term sheet for an initial round of standalone financing for its Macrophage Therapeutics business unit.

January 20, 2015

Canadian group reaches milestone on Tc-99m project

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian researchers say they can now produce sufficient quantities of the isotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m) in a six-hour production run to satisfy demand for 500 nuclear medicine scans.

January 18, 2015

ASRT: Enrollment in radiography, nuclear medicine declines

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The number of first-year students enrolling in radiography and nuclear medicine programs declined in 2014, while the number of students enrolling in radiation therapy programs increased, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT).

January 15, 2015

PET/MRI spots neuroinflammation from chronic back pain

By Wayne Forrest

PET/MR images have led researchers for the first time to confirm evidence of neuroinflammation in key regions of the brain in patients with chronic back pain, according to a study published online January 12 in Brain.

January 14, 2015