Treating cancer that has spread to other parts of the body often includes PET scans or bone scans. Both use radioactive medicine, injected into a patient’s bloodstream through an IV in their arm, to ...

Nuclear medicine procedures have been flat and are trending slightly downward, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division. The 2011 Nuclear Medicine Market Outlook Report showed an ...

RESTON, Va.—Twenty million nuclear medicine procedures that detect and evaluate heart disease, brain disorders and cancer—and that use radiopharmaceuticals to treat overactive thyroids and some ...

A recent action by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should have protected patients who are inadvertently exposed to potentially high doses of radiation due to faulty injections or ...

The three-year, ACGME-accredited nuclear medicine residency offers training in diagnostic nuclear medicine imaging, non-imaging procedures and a wide range of nuclear medicine therapeutic procedures.

Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology used to help diagnose and treat abnormalities early in the progression of a disease. This imaging captures medical information that would otherwise ...

Researchers have shown that a new nuclear medicine procedure could safely and more effectively detect cancerous gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors than current methods. The study is ...

Medical exposure is the largest human-made source of radiation exposure, accounting for more than 95% of radiation exposure. Furthermore, the use of radiation in medicine continues to increase ...

RESTON, Va. -- Traveling during the holidays--especially for the nearly 60,000 individuals who daily undergo a nuclear medicine treatment or test in this country--will go smoother if medical ...

In an effort to provide safer working environments for nuclear medicine professionals and their patients, clinics across five continents have shared their approaches to containing the spread of ...