Europeans face potential Mo-99 supply nightmare; key nuclear reactor closed until February 2009
10/14/2008
The Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG) has announced that the High Flux Reactor in Petten, the Netherlands, will remain shut down until Feb. 16, 2009, raising the possibility of another four months of molybdenum-99 shortages for thousands...
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Medical isotope shortage heightens calls for US to have a domestic supply
10/7/2008
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Radioisotope shortage could force delays in medical tests
9/10/2008
USA Today - Thousands of patients in the USA may face delays in getting key medical tests because of a global shortage of radioactive tracers, which are used to perform bone scans and to assess blood flow to the heart, experts say.
The...
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Producers deny blame for European radioisotope shortage
9/10/2008
Diagnostic Imaging Online - European industry sources blame the shortage of molybdenum-99 that will plague healthcare providers through mid-September on sheer bad luck, not a lack of cooperation between facilities.
The three sites in Europe that...
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AMIC is committed to providing radioisotopes to the US health market
9/8/2008
September 2008 | IMAGING ECONOMICS -
While today's news headlines are dominated by the rising price of oil and the collapsing housing market, another— possibly more serious—issue has received short shrift. Since November 2007, the...
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Medical community eyes reactor shutdowns
8/28/2008
28 August 2008 | World Nuclear News - The operating schedules of five research reactors have caused a certain amount of alarm in the nuclear medicine community, while a production factory in Belgium is closed after an incident. It was about nine...
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Covidien advises customers about impending molybdenum shortage
8/29/2008
Covidien has alerted customers for its technetium-99m generators about impending shortages caused by the unexpected shutdown of the Dutch nuclear reactor that serves as its main source of molybdenum-99.
General manager Rick Lytle announced the...
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PET with C-11 PiB can assess beta-amyloid brain deposits
8/12/2008
PET using carbon-11-labeled Pittsburgh Compound B (C-11 PiB) shows promise for assessing beta-amyloid deposits in the brain and may have a potential role as a diagnostic aid for early Alzheimer's disease, according to research published online in...
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Kennewick company providing Kadlec with medical isotopes
8/6/2008
Wednesday, Aug. 06, 2008 Tri-City Herald
Advanced Medical Isotope Corp. of Kennewick has started the delivery of short-lived radioisotopes to Kadlec Medical Center, the company announced Tuesday.
This is the company's first shipment...
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MAPLE Reactor Cancellation Goes Toxic: MDS Sues AECL and Ottowa for $1.6B
7/10/2008
July 10, 2008
TORONTO — MDS Inc. (TSX:MDS) is suing Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. and the federal government, seeking $1.6 billion over the cancellation of the MAPLE reactor project.
The Toronto-based company, a major supplier of nuclear...
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AMIC Fulfills U.S. Medical Isotope Needs, Expands Production Goals
7/4/2008
Health Imaging News | June 4, 2008 | Top Stories
Advanced Medical Isotope Corporation (AMIC) has begun the production and distribution of medical isotopes within the United States, and hopes to disseminate the process throughout the country by...
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Canada Says Won't Revive Medical Reactor Project
6/6/2008
Fri Jun 6, 2008 6:32pm EDT
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government won't reverse its decision to scrap a nuclear reactor project designed to produce medical radioisotopes, a government spokeswoman said on Friday, even though cancellation may...
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Nuclear Cleanup Could Derail an Experimental Cancer Treatment, Study Says
6/4/2008
WASHINGTON — A cleanup of nuclear waste from the cold war era threatens to eliminate the supply of an obscure isotope that shows great promise in cancer treatments, according to a report by the Energy Department’s inspector...
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AECL aborts development work on MAPLE medical isotope reactors
5/16/2008
May 16, 2008
OTTAWA — Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. is scrapping development of its two MAPLE medical-isotope reactors after pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the failed nuclear project.
The federal Crown corporation said Friday...
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Designer Isotopes Push the Frontier of Science
5/9/2008
ScienceDaily (May 9, 2008) — Designer labels have a lot of cachet – a principle that’s equally true in fashion
and physics. The future of nuclear physics is in designer isotopes – the relatively new power scientists have...
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NOPR Requests Comments for Reconsideration of PET Coverage
4/21/2008
The reconsideration of the PET National Coverage Decision (NCD) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is now open for public comment.
The formal request from the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) is to remove the current...
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NOPR Asks CMS to Expand FDG-PET Coverage
4/11/2008
Representatives from the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) have formally asked the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand federal reimbursement for the use of FDG-PET in oncology applications.
The request asks CMS to...
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Jesse Jackson touts benefits of medical isotopes in Kennewick
3/27/2008
March 27th 2008
If anyone questioned the connection between the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the scientific effort to develop medical isotope technology, the social rights leader provided the answer Wednesday night in Kennewick.
"Trying to figure...
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Jesse Jackson Speaks Out for Medical Isotopes
3/26/2008
Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008 Symposium today on medical isotopes
A symposium today on medical isotopes is bringing a panel of experts and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder/president of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, to the Tri-Cities.
Rev. Jackson's...
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Medical and Research Isotopes
10/1/2007
Fall 2007 - Fast forward five years from now and Darryl Fischer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland envisions Southeast Washington as a major supplier of more than 30 different isotopes for medicine, research, industry, and...
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Reactor Shutdown Causing Medical Isotope Shortage
12/6/2007
OTTAWA, Dec. 5 — Medical treatments are being delayed or deferred at hospitals worldwide because of the extended shutdown of a Canadian reactor.
The reactor, the Atomic Energy of Canada reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, near Ottawa, is North...
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Nuclear Reactor Woes Delay Medical Tests
12/7/2007
Radioactive isotopes needed for heart and cancer imaging in scant supply
Associated Press
updated 2:51 p.m. PT, Fri., Dec. 7, 2007
New York - Thousands of patients are facing delays in crucial medical tests because of a shortage of a radioactive...
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DOE Names PNNL Scientist Darrell Fisher as Director of Isotope Program
1/16/2007
January 16th, 2007 - A new national role for Richland scientist Darrell Fisher could lead to more access to potentially life-saving treatments using medical isotopes. The Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy has named Fisher, of Pacific...
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RIT Targeting of HIV-Infected Cells
1/2/2007
January 2007 - Newspapers and media outlets around the world carried news in the first weeks of November that researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (New York, NY) had developed ‘‘radioactive...
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Cancer burden expected to soar, overwhelm doctors
3/13/2007
The graying of America will swell the number of cancer patients and survivors 55% by 2020, according to a study that suggests doctors may not be able to cope with the additional burden.
The analysis, published online Tuesday in the Journal of...
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Targeted Irradiation: A New Weapon Against HIV?
11/9/2006
November 9, 2006 - Antiretroviral therapy can keep HIV infection in check and delay and ameliorate the symptoms of HIV/AIDS. However, the drugs do not manage to eradicate the virus completely; individuals have to stay on the drugs permanently....
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