Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $15,511
19%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 19%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: imagingisotope

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Isotope crisis threatens medical care

    08/16/2009 6:20:51 PM PDT · by neverdem · 41 replies · 1,156+ views
    Science News ^ | August 14th, 2009 | Janet Raloff
    Global production of the feedstock for the leading medical-imaging isotope is low and erratic, putting health care in jeopardy. Within the next two weeks, the vast majority of radioactive-imaging medical tests could be delayed or replaced by less desirable procedures. The reason: temporary shutdowns of Canadian and Dutch reactors that together normally provide some 70 percent of the world’s supplies of the isotope molybdenum-99 and at least 80 percent of North American supplies. Each week, U.S. doctors prescribe some 300,000 medical-imaging tests that rely on technetium-99m, a radioactive isotope produced from molybdenum-99. About half of those tests measure heart function....