'A group of seven medical imaging societies have come together to protest a limit CMS imposes on PET scanning for initial patient treatment evaluations. The groups would like to see CMS expand coverage to two FDG PET scans for evaluation, as opposed to ...'

'A medical imaging procedure known as lung scintigraphy may be more reliable than pulmonary CT angiography (CTA) for identifying or excluding pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnant patients, according to a study published in the November issue of the ...'

'SNM is calling on Congress to support the Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act (CARE bill), which would ensure that states set minimum education and credentialing standards for nuclear ...'

'U.S. regulatory staff, in a memo released on Friday, questioned how well a GE Healthcare experimental imaging drug would help doctors more easily diagnose Parkinsonß's disease and other movement disorders. The company, a unit of General Electric Co ...'

'Nuclear Medicine Professionals, Inc. (NMPI) announces the acquisition and launch of its fifth portable nuclear camera. The size of NMPI's fleet of mobile cardiac imaging units has increased 40% in 2009 alone. According to NMPI President John ...'

'SNM and a coalition of eight other organizations have issued a white paper urging Congress to take steps to maintain adequate supplies of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), a radioactive substance that is the basis for a common medical isotope used in more than 80 ...'

'IRIS QA, LLC, a leader in the development of software based analysis tools for the CT, MR and NM imaging systems, announces the launch of a new Nuclear Medicine (NM) Took Kit application which provides a simple windows based interface that supports ...'

'The outgoing director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mohammed ElBaradei, has praised South Africa for making 'the right choice' regarding nuclear power, by scrapping its nuclear weapons and focusing on the peaceful uses of ...'

'The Saskatchewan provincial government alongside the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) have come together to establish a CA$500 million, 10 megawatts research nuclear reactor to produce medical isotopes. In 1949 - cobalt-60 treatment was tried for the ...'

'Devices that simultaneously take a PET scan and a CT scan can eliminate unnecessary surgery for lung cancer, although they do little to save lives, researchers in Denmark reported on Wednesday. 'Our study is the first to test PET-CT in a randomized ...'