With any luck, there may soon be a new test available to help with the early detection of breast cancer. This new source of information comes from a very unlikely source: our hair. An Australian company called Fermiscan has come up with a method that tests about 20 strands of hair. This test is based on the discovery that women with breast cancer ...

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 by a host of potentially harmful bacteria at levels that were up to five times ...

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 roaches, into four containers each and had them irradiated with the cobalt source at ...

As sonographers and vascular technologists, it is in our interest for the medical community (as well as the general public) to recognize the benefits of our examinations. This includes the potential and real benefits diagnostic sonography offers as compared to other more costly imaging modalities such as CT or MRI and/or modalities that utilize ...

  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. Even then the SNM, ARRT, NMTCB and ASRT realized that there might be eventual problems ...

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 lost any days to flu, as I have in the past when I skipped the shots. This got me ...

  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 from one size fits all model to a more individualized and personalized molecular ...

When I graduated from my nuclear medicine training in 1984, PET was confined to a few academic institutions where it was used as a research tool, and nuclear medicine was the only clinically available method for non-invasively imaging molecular processes. Although SPECT imaging was evolving, nuclear medicine images were mainly planar and provided ...