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Covidien's net sales up 5% in Q1
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Despite a decline in sales in its Pharmaceuticals segment, healthcare technology firm Covidien posted positive results in the first quarter of fiscal 2011.
January 31, 2011
CMS to reimburse for NaF-PET scans
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will reimburse sites participating in the National Oncologic Positron Emission Tomography Registry for F-18 sodium fluoride (NaF) PET scans, beginning February 7.
January 31, 2011
Univ. of Iowa doctor suspended, faces settlement deadline
By Brian Casey
A nuclear medicine physician at the University of Iowa in Iowa City involved in a public dispute with the chair of his department has been suspended, and he faces a January 28 deadline to reach a settlement that would require him to leave the university.
January 27, 2011
Gamma camera market to hit $820M by 2015
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The global market for gamma cameras is projected to produce $820 million in revenue by 2015, according to a new market research report by Global Industry Analysts.
January 25, 2011
MITA adds radiopharma firms
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Industry trade group Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has expanded to include the radiopharmaceutical industry.
January 25, 2011
FDA OKs Areva isotope trials
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Nuclear medicine firm Areva Med has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin U.S. clinical trials of its lead-212 radioactive isotope as a new treatment for cancer.
January 24, 2011
Canada invests $35M in Tc-99m production
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Canadian government has allocated $35 million ($35 million U.S.) to four projects to develop new ways to produce the radioisotope technetium-99m (Tc-99m), which is widely used in nuclear medicine.
January 24, 2011
Philips nets CE Mark for PET/MRI
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Healthcare has received the CE Mark for its whole-body Ingenuity TF PET/MRI system.
January 24, 2011
Immunomedics touts pancreatic drug studies
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Antibody-directed drug and radionuclide therapeutics for pancreatic cancer improved efficacy with minimal toxicity in preclinical studies, according to results presented at the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium held last week in San Francisco.
January 23, 2011
Nordion's loss increases in FY10
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The turbulent medical isotope market took its toll on Nordion in the company's fourth quarter and fiscal 2010 financial results.
January 23, 2011
FDG-NaF 'cocktail' beats FDG in detecting malignant lesions
By Wayne Forrest
Researchers at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, are finding that the combination of FDG and F-18 sodium fluoride (NaF) with PET/CT increases sensitivity for detecting malignant lesions when compared to FDG alone.
January 20, 2011
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FDA panel gives Amyvid PET agent conditional approval
By Wayne Forrest
With a unanimous 16-0 decision, an advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted on January 20 to conditionally recommend approval of Eli Lilly's PET imaging agent Amyvid (florbetapir) for detecting beta amyloid plaque deposits that could be precursors to Alzheimer's disease.
January 19, 2011
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