February 2008 - Posts

Cuddle One Cat
February 26, 2008 11:26 AM by Joyce Ward

As an owner of a very calming cat, I was interested in the news story on the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference in New Orleans that suggests that owning a cat is good for your heart. According to various media outlets, researchers Read More...

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PET/CT Job Concerns
February 21, 2008 5:30 PM by Joyce Ward

When PET/CT first came out, it looked like a great opportunity for expanding the job base for nuclear medicine technologists. When the CT only gave attenuation and some positional information, there were fewer problems with who could run the systems. Read More...

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Taking Precautions
February 18, 2008 11:31 AM by Joyce Ward

According to the news, there is a lot of flu going around and, unfortunately, the flu shots that people got last fall do not seem to be helping with the worst of the strains this year. Still, I got a shot this year and so far---knock on wood---have not Read More...

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The Plaque is the Culprit
February 12, 2008 4:00 PM by Joyce Ward

There has been much excitement in the nuclear medicine community over the new PET imaging agents that are designed to attach to the amyloid plaque in Alzheimer's disease. Both FDDNP and the Pittsburgh compound B have shown that nuclear medicine can be Read More...

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Will Supply Problems Limit Radioimmunotherapy Advances?
February 8, 2008 2:48 PM by Joyce Ward

In the Feb. 4 issue of this magazine, William Hubble, MA, CNMT, RT(R)(N)(CT), our "View From the Hot Room" columnist talked about the problems caused by the shortage of imaging isotopes (in particular Tc-99m) because of the shutdown of the Chalk River Read More...

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Everything Old is New Again
February 6, 2008 2:37 PM by Joyce Ward

Yesterday, I attended the Molecular Summit in Philadelphia. Put on by The Dark Report ( http://www.darkreport.com/ ), the meeting was designed to show the need for integration of imaging and diagnostics (think radiology and laboratory), as medicine moves Read More...

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Thank Heavens for Volunteers
February 1, 2008 2:23 PM by Joyce Ward

In my last blog, I talked about my decision to retire from active registration and certification in the ARRT and NMTCB. As I mentioned, this was not without a lot of thought on my part. For one, it's hard to mark time to take the CME tests in the JNMT Read More...

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