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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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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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Is your Hospital Ready for a Disaster?
May 7, 2008 4:19 PM by Joyce Ward
According to a May 5 report from Reuters news service, a one-day snapshot of emergency room conditions at 34 U.S. hospitals shows they are all overwhelmed and none is prepared to handle a big event like a disaster or attack. The snapshot, which included 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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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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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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Will Nuclear Medicine be Next on Your Grocery List?
March 4, 2008 5:38 PM by Joyce Ward
Yesterday the Wall Street Jou rn al, along with other news outlets, published an article about the first retail medical clinic opening in one of Britain's largest supermarket chains. The article notes that patients would have to be registered with the 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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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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Treading Towards Retirement
January 29, 2008 12:13 PM by Joyce Ward
Last April, I was a short on CME for the ARRT. The problem is that although I constantly educate myself on nuclear medicine and attend many CME lectures, I do it as part of my job as a writer, so I do not get any credit for these educational activities. Read More...
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Join a Virtual March on Washington
January 22, 2008 12:03 PM by Joyce Ward
Today I got an e-mail from the SNM director of Health Policy and Regulatory Affairs notifying all members of the SNMTS that the Alliance for Quality Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (co-founded by SNMTS) would be participating in a virtual march Read More...
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Decisions, Decisions...
January 18, 2008 3:06 PM by Joyce Ward
As I mentioned on Dec. 31 st , a bone density scan showed I had osteopenia, which caused me to make a New Years resolution to drink more milk. I also got some calcium supplements and vitamin D to try to stop the bone loss. This course of action seemed Read More...
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