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' ...

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 ...

On August 26, the High Flux Reactor facility at Petten in the Netherlands announced a shutdown of their facility. According to an article in the Canada's Edmonton Sun, the facility had a technical breakdown. This normally would not have been a major problem, except that the three other major reactors (in Canada, Europe and South Africa) ...

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 ...

As I mentioned in my previous column, the 20th anniversary of our magazine got me reminiscing about the old days in nuclear medicine. Of course, I only go back to 1984, so some of the things I have heard about were gone by the time I started. For instance, I have heard from other technologists that with early lung scans using xenon, the patient ...

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 ...

  There is an old saying that a coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once. In today's world, however, the media is often responsible for bringing on a thousand fears of death by sensationalizing any slight possibility of risk. If you pay attention to all the fears broadcast in the news, you will find you cannot do anything ...

  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 ...