ScienceNews has an update on the Molybdenum-99 diagnostic imaging isotope shortage. With the shutdown of the Chalk River and Petten nuclear reactors, Mo-99 production has fallen to 30 percent of normal. The article reports three strategies hospitals are employing to deal with the shortage. Some are putting patients on wait lists. [...]
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Yesterday was National Dosimetrist’s Day, and I would be remiss if I did not thank all of the dosimetrists out there that do such a great job. The dosimetrist is often the hub of a radiation therapy department, interacting with physicians, physicists and therapists on a daily basis. They will follow a patient [...] Just because there hasn’t been a One Star Mondays post in a while, that doesn’t mean I have run out of bad music to share. We have only just begun (hey, that may be a song to use in the future) to scratch the surface of the bad music that has accumulated over the [...] The last article in this series examined the distribution of dose inside a patient when they are treated with a single therapy beam. The question is, how do we use this knowledge to treat a patient in the most effective manner? We want the patient’s tumor to receive the dose that the physician [...] My knowledge of the Scottish legal system is fairly limited (ok, non-existant), but it looks like the sad case of Lisa Norris, a 16 year old girl who died in 2006 after receiving a radiation dose 58% greater than prescribed, is under investigation yet again. A fatal accident inquiry has just been launched looking [...] |
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