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' ...

Hello? Is there anybody out there? Hello?  It's funny. In the early 1990s I worked for a guy who was as good a journalist as you'd find anywhere. But for whatever reason---fear, likely--- he just couldn't bring himself to join the rest of us in making the transition from typewriters to word processors. While we eagerly jumped on 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 ...

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 ...

I recently received the brochure and registration materials for the 2008 Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound's Annual Meeting. I was somewhat surprised to have received the brochure, because historically the SRU has generally not been very receptive to non-radiologists. In fact, according to the SRU website, http://www.sru.org/, the Society is ...

  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 ...

  TV shows like House, which show physicians yelling at subordinates and ignoring their advice may have to adjust their scripts, now that the Joint Commission is taking on bad behavior in hospitals. According to a WebMD report: ''The Joint Commission's new standards -- which go into effect on Jan. 1, 2009 -- require hospitals and other ...

In case you haven't heard, the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) has announced that starting in Spring 2009, a new Sonography Principles and Instrumentation (SPI) examination will be made available. Before all of you who are already certified have a panic attack, I'll state up-front that active registrants who ...

I recently received the results of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography's 2008 Sonographer Salary and Benefits Survey. Every few years the SDMS does a survey and provides its membership with the results---it's a nice benefit of being an SDMS member. The results contained in the 87-page survey are rather detailed with data provided ...

What is D2B? While it sounds like a new singing group, it's actually a new program launched by the American College of Cardiology. Its purpose is to save time-and lives-by reducing door-to-balloon time in hospitals that do emergency PCI procedures on people with STEMI ( ST elevated M.I.), by reducing door-to-balloon time to 90 minutes. This ...