I’m still tied up with the annual calibration on one of our accelerators, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, here are a few updates on the Molybdenum-99 shortage.
The American College of Radiology has posted an article from Reuters describing some of the ways that US hospitals are coping with the loss of needed medical isotopes. Basically, it involves wait lists, rationing or switching to more expensive or less accurate tests.
The Society for Nuclear Medicine has put together a clearing house of information and recommendations here.
One person subscribes to the notion that the Chinese symbol for crisis is also the symbol for opportunity.
In an unrelated story, Orac celebrates Homeopathy Awareness Week by pointing out a story about a British store that sells homeopathic plutonium.
Speaking of homeopathy, there was an article I saw earlier today that focused on side effects from a homeopathic product – Zicam. Since this is marketed as a homeopathic product, the remedy was not under FDA regulations as over the counter drugs: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31388177/ns/health-cold_and_flu/