Today starts a week devoted to celebrating the contributions of nuclear medicine to the nation's health. This year the SNM has chosen the motto ''Imagine the Future of Molecular Imaging, We can make a world of difference.'' Hopefully you have already made plans to celebrate our week and perhaps bought some posters, give-away items or logo ...

Randy Reichenfeld. Lois Cone. Amber Lamar. Louis M. Izzo. Garnold Bodenheimer. Samantha Natiello.Sarah Brettrager. Just a few days ago, I'd never heard of any of these people. I've now come to learn they're just some of the 50---50!---men and women who have already signed up as fans of ADVANCE for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals' ...

With the current concerns about the molybdenum-99 shortages it was interesting to read in the 9-14 issue of Medical News Today that researchers at Delft University of technology in the Netherlands had received a patent for a unique way to producing that isotope. According to the article, while the current suppliers of Mo-99 use enriched uranium ...

It looked at first as if the problem of getting a domestic source of technetium-99m was going to be solved soon, according to the beginning of an article from another magazine that was posted on today's SNM Smart Brief. But reading the whole story, I found that what really was happening at the moment was that yet another company is going into the ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are looking into tracing cells within the body using fluorocarbon tagging, according to a press release on Eurekalert. While MRS can be used to identify signatures of elements in the body, it is generally considered less sensitive than nuclear medicine for tracer imaging. Indeed, the ability to label ...

Those of you who are, like me, former members of the flower generation, may remember the song ''Where Have all the Flowers Gone?'' It started as a war protest song, written by Pete Seger, and was recorded by several folk groups such as the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary. It popped into my mind when we took a ...

  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 the veto by a margin of 383-41, while the tally in the Senate was 70-26. The bill ...

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 very much like it did five years ago when the SNM held its 50th ...

I have been moving from one apartment to another and just as I was opening the boxes and just getting settled in my new place the power went out. It stayed out for about 15 hours and people were complaining that they would need to throw out the food, especially since the temperature was in the high 90s. It was a relief to have the power back. You ...

The other day I was talking to Amy Shaw, associte director of public relations at the SNM, and she told me that SNMTS and United Blood Services will come together to be ''Blood Heroes'' by hosting a blood drive during SNM's 55th Annual Meeting in New Orleans. According to Shaw, the Technologist Section of SNM will host the drive on ...