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Passage of Medicare Bill Calling for Accreditation of Facilities Applauded
July 16, 2008 1:04 PM by Joyce Ward
Both the ACR and the SNM are celebrating the passage of H. R. 6331, the Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Both houses of Congress garnered the necessary majorities to override a presidential veto of the act. The House overrode Read More...
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Great Times and Good Deeds in New Orleans
June 27, 2008 1:51 PM by Joyce Ward
New Orleans put on its best face for the technologists, physicians and scientists attending the annual SNM conference June 14-18. In return, SNM and SNMTS members gave a bit of their time and their blood to the city. Coming into New Orleans, it looked Read More...
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Newspaper Causes Concerns with Story on Accident
June 4, 2008 3:25 PM by Joyce Ward
On June 3, the Times-Picayune in New Orleans reported that a vehicle transporting diagnostic radioisotopes in New Orleans struck a Jeep ejecting some containers of radioactive isotopes. Later in the story, it noted that the Jeep, not the medical isotope Read More...
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No Hope for MAPLE
May 21, 2008 12:53 PM by Joyce Ward
There was bad news out of Canada last week when Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, a Crown corporation announced it was abandoning development of its two MAPLE medical-isotope reactors Ontario. The company had spent hundreds of millions of dollars in developing Read More...
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Dirtier than a Toilet?
May 15, 2008 12:01 PM by Joyce Ward
Have you looked at your keyboard lately? I usually don't, unless I accidentally spill something on it. Then I read in an article on ABC News about a study by a microbiologist in the United Kingdom that showed that the typical office keyboard had contamination Read More...
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Heading to the Big Easy?
April 30, 2008 4:52 PM by Joyce Ward
I just got my airplane reservations to fly down to New Orleans this June 14 for the SNM annual meeting. I am looking forward to the conference which allows me to learn the latest research in nuclear medicine and PET and to connectwith old friends and Read More...
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My Experience Irradiating Bugs
April 21, 2008 5:45 PM by Joyce Ward
On Saturday night, I was watching "Myth Busters" with my grandson. This week, they were trying to bust the myth that cockroaches would be the only thing living after a nuclear war. To test this, they put four different bugs, including fruit flies and Read More...
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What Did I Want in the Refrigerator?
April 16, 2008 5:30 PM by Joyce Ward
Next Monday will be my 66 th birthday and while I think my mind is as sharp as it used to be when I was a spring chicken of 55, I sometimes find myself forgetting where I put my keys or why I went over to the refrigerator. These small lapses are not new. Read More...
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Canadians Protest PET Restrictions
April 11, 2008 2:52 PM by Joyce Ward
When you look at some of the arguments for a national health care, our system is often compared unfavorably with the national health system in Canada. Generally, this is done by people who have never had to deal with that system first hand. Now it is Read More...
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Dealing with Questions
April 4, 2008 2:09 PM by Joyce Ward
Over on our March 14th Mammography Matters blog, Wanda Francisco discussed dealing with the questions of patients who wanted to know what they were seeing on the screens of the new digital mammogram machines . It seems that some of the digital mammography Read More...
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This Time It's Cell Phones
March 31, 2008 4:39 PM by Joyce Ward
In this weeks top story Calming Fears, I discussed the difficulty that most people have in accurately assessing risks, sometimes fearing small risks, such as that of being near someone who has had radioiodine therapy, while dismissing larger risks, such Read More...
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Thoughts from the Other Side of the CE Table
March 26, 2008 1:12 PM by Joyce Ward
As you are aware, ADVANCE News Magazines holds job fairs and career events in venues all over the country. Free continuing education courses are offered as a part of the event and the company likes to have some of the editorial staff participate in these Read More...
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CMS Strikes Out FDG for Infection Imaging
March 21, 2008 11:53 AM by Joyce Ward
In the battle to get CMS to understand the value of diagnostic imaging, this month saw one gain, the decision not to limit CTA imaging, and one loss, a decision to continue national non-coverage of FDG PET for infection and inflammation imaging. Explaining Read More...
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CTA Victory Also Helps Fusion Imaging
March 18, 2008 3:47 PM by Joyce Ward
At first glance, the furor over reimbursement for CT angiography (CTA) may not seem to be something that concerns nuclear medicine technologists. After all, the CT experts often predict that CTA could replace some of the current myocardial perfusion scans Read More...
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Too Many Tests?
March 12, 2008 12:41 PM by Joyce Ward
Yesterday the New York Times ran an essay called "Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason" by Sandeep Jauhar M.D. that outlined a specific case, where the author felt that the expert consultations and tests spiraled out of control. Because the article Read More...
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