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Radioactive material goes missing at Walter Reed

Patients and staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. may have been exposed to high levels of radiation, WAMU reports, because two packages of radioactive material sat under a Read more...

Hospitals piling up nuclear waste

Hospitals go through radioactive material--a lot of it, in fact--but industry leaders seldom pay much attention to the problem. Generators of such material include radioactive cesium isotopes and Read more...

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Trio of Studies Support Use of PET/CT Scans as Prostate Cancer Staging Tool

ROCHESTER, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Recent studies have suggested that C-11 choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography (PET/CT) scans can be utilized as a staging and potentially Read more >>

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves Radioactive Materials License for Positron Facility

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Positron Corporation (OTC BB:POSC) a molecular imaging company focused on nuclear cardiology, announced today that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved Read more >>

IsoRay Announces World's First Cesium-131 Treatment for Metastasized Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer Originating in Uterus Treated With Cs-131 Internal Radiation Therapy RICHLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IsoRay, Inc. (Amex:ISR) announced today another milestone in the use of Cesium-131 Read more >>