It is used in imaging processes and also shows potential for cancer therapy. However, it does not occur naturally and must be produced artificially—a complex and costly process.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of nuclear medicine, the integration of diagnostics and therapeutics - known as theranostics - represents a groundbreaking shift in how we approach the treatment of ...

Bruce Power's Chief Operating Officer James Scongack is also Chairman of the Canadian Nuclear Isotope Council and, as he explains, the country is aiming to grow its leadership role in nuclear medicine ...

Scientists have found a way to convert high-energy radiation waste from particle accelerators into a critically scarce medical isotope used in cancer therapy. The intense beams of particles inside ...

After nearly a decade of looming shortages, supplies of critical medical isotopes have stayed stable, but vulnerabilities remain, explained experts during a side event at the IAEA’s 61st General ...

(Adds details, background, byline) By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Covidien <COV.N>, a supplier of medical isotopes used in scores of diagnostic tests, said on Tuesday it had cut a ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy has selected a unit of General Electric Co to begin research on a domestic supply of medical isotopes, which are used in millions of diagnostic scans ...

UPTON, NY—Cathy Sue Cutler, who has served as director of the Medical Isotope Research and Production (MIRP) program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory since 2015, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The shutdown of a nuclear reactor in Canada has caused a shortage of a radioactive isotope used to detect cancers and heart disease, forcing doctors into costlier procedures that ...

In a concerted effort to address the global shortage of medical isotopes used in cancer treatment, Energy Fuels Inc. UUUU recently acquired RadTran LLC. Energy Fuels and RadTran have been ...