RESTON, Va.—Twenty million nuclear medicine procedures that detect and evaluate heart disease, brain disorders and cancer—and that use radiopharmaceuticals to treat overactive thyroids and some ...

Nuclear medicine procedures have been flat and are trending slightly downward, according to a report by IMV Medical Information Division. The 2011 Nuclear Medicine Market Outlook Report showed an ...

Treating cancer that has spread to other parts of the body often includes PET scans or bone scans. Both use radioactive medicine, injected into a patient’s bloodstream through an IV in their arm, to ...

A recent action by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) should have protected patients who are inadvertently exposed to potentially high doses of radiation due to faulty injections or ...

Patients treated with radioactive material face an increased risk of triggering security alarms because more guards are being equipped with sensitive radiation detectors, a report said Tuesday. It ...

RESTON, Va. -- Say the word nuclear and it conjures up mistaken ideas about radiation, an invisible, odorless and intangible force that allows doctors to non-invasively see into the body. Say the ...

Nuclear medicine is giving people hope in their fight against cancer and other debilitating diseases. The cutting-edge therapy uses radioactive drugs to treat aggressive, late-stage tumors and in some ...

Throughout any given year, the National Academies convene hundreds of conferences, workshops, symposia, forums, roundtables, and other gatherings that attract the finest minds in academia and the ...

Medical exposure is the largest human-made source of radiation exposure, accounting for more than 95% of radiation exposure. Furthermore, the use of radiation in medicine continues to increase ...

The nuclear medicine sector is a small part of the wider nuclear industry, but it provides some of the most pioneering technologies in healthcare - and is close to making personalised medicine a ...

Government agencies responsible for protecting the public from negligence and harm must act with independence and integrity and resist undue influence from those they are charged with overseeing. When ...