Nuclear Medicine: Page 344

Bayer details job cuts, Schering integration

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

German pharmaceutical giant Bayer last week announced that it plans to cut 6,100 jobs as it seeks to integrate the activities of Schering AG into the company.

March 4, 2007

Refurbished equipment helps imaging facilities do more with less

By Brian Casey

Farida Razvi was facing a dilemma. As manager of the nuclear medicine department at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, she wanted to replace the hospital's aging single-head gamma camera, a Prism system of Picker International vintage. But as a nonprofit community hospital, Mount Sinai faced serious budget constraints in terms of how much money it could commit to acquiring new technology.

February 28, 2007

IBA to install cyclotron in India

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Nuclear medicine products firm Ion Beam Applications (IBA) has signed a contract to deliver a Cyclone 30 cyclotron to the Indian Department of Atomic Energy.

February 25, 2007

Tumor > Neotect

By Scott Williams

February 19, 2007

MDS names Prince as CFO

MDS, the Toronto-based parent company of radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, said that Douglas Prince will be joining the firm as its executive vice president finance and chief financial officer (CFO).

February 19, 2007

Digirad's revenues advance in 2006

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The delivery of more gamma cameras meant greater revenues for nuclear medicine vendor Digirad in 2006, although the company still posted a loss for the year.

February 19, 2007

SPECT/CT improves sentinel node detection in overweight breast cancer patients

By Shalmali Pal

Excessive weight and a high body mass index (BMI) pose a host of complications in breast cancer patients. Nuclear medicine specialists have proposed using SPECT/CT in these women to improve sentinel node identification and spatial resolution, as well as overall image quality. SPECT/CT results in this population can directly affect surgical management, according to a study in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

February 13, 2007

MDS Nordion opens European TheraSphere centers

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Radioisotope developer MDS Nordion of Kanata, Ontario, said it has established four centers of excellence in Europe for its liver cancer treatment product, TheraSphere.

February 7, 2007

DraxImage to bring generic sestamibi to market

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Canadian radiopharmaceutical firm DraxImage has submitted an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its generic kit for the preparation of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) sestamibi.

February 1, 2007

Study: PET accurate for newborns' pancreatic defects

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Positron emission tomography (PET) is extremely accurate in diagnosing a type of congenital hyperinsulinism (HI), a rare but severe imbalance of insulin levels in newborns.

January 29, 2007

RAE Systems introduces two new dosimeters

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

RAE Systems of San Jose, CA, has introduced the DoseRAE and DoseRAE-P Geiger-Mueller tube-based, electronic gamma radiation dosimeters.

January 29, 2007

Advanced Medical Isotopes licenses actinium patent

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Medical isotope developer Advanced Medical Isotopes of Kennewick, WA, reported that it has licensed a U.S. patent for preparing actinium-225.

January 25, 2007

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