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Medical Isotope News
April 14, 2008 US-DOE Isotope Status Presentation 17-March-2008.
Summary:
Insufficient dedicated isotope production capabilities
to permit year-round
isotope production.
Aging facilities and equipment.
Isotope
research and development needs to be reestablished.
No lead
sponsor for large commercial isotopes (americium-241, californium-252).
Batch
pricing caused by budget restrictions is impacting research.
Researchers are forced to pay for the entire isotope
batch.
No guarantee that research isotopes will be produced when requested.
Reduced isotope portfolio (FY 2002).
April 14, 2008 Eradimaging(posted
January 2008):
Society
of Nuclear Medicine: National Academy of Sciences Report Supports Restored
Federal Funding For Nuclear Medicine Research (CMI
Comment: 85% drop in 2006; data and embedded chart presented at CMI
symposium.)
April 11, 2008 Tri-City
Herald News
'Shuttle'
may aid isotope creation at Idaho lab Lack
of US production for short lived medical isotopes prompt studies to
modifiy US-DOE reactor. (CMI Comment: How about considering all US reactors
include medical isotope production shuttle(s)?)
March 31, 2008 Tri-City
Herald Editorial
Isotope
symposium keeps Tri-Cities at the forefront
Mar. 27, 2008 Tri-City
Herald News
Advances
in isotope science win a surprising convert
On March 26, 2008
- Mini Symposium: The Cure Starts Here!
Citizens for Medical Isotopes is pleased
to announce a short symposium featuring regional and national experts
in medical isotopes for diagnosis and therapy to be held March 26th
at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington.
Additional
Information
Jan.
31, 2008 - Research - PLoS Med 3(11): e427(Nov 2006)
Medical
Isotopes Show Promise in Curing HIV/AIDS The HIV
epidemic is a major threat to health in the developing and western worlds.
A modality that targets and kills HIV-1-infected cells could have a
major impact on the treatment of acute exposure and the elimination
of persistent reservoirs of infected cells. The aim of this proof-of-principle
study was to demonstrate the efficacy of a therapeutic strategy of targeting
and eliminating HIV-1-infected cells with radiolabeled antibodies specific
to viral proteins in vitro and in vivo.
Dec.
18, 2007 - Press Release
Advanced Medical
Isotope Corporation Initiates Actions to Supply Medical Isotopes to
Taiwan and Mainland China
Dec.
14, 2007 - CMI staff commentary
A chronology of
endorsement and isotope supply needs...
Dec. 5, 2007 - The Toronto Star
Medical
Isotope Supply Interrrupted A problem with
a Canadian nuclear reactor that produces medical isotopes used to diagnose
and treat cancer cases has left patients in Canada and around the world
in limbo...
Nov. 20, 2007 - National Academy of Sciences
Nuclear
Medicine Holds Many Promises for Improved Care "Executive
summary on the availability or lack thereof US medical isotope production...
Jul. 17,
2007 - The New York Times
Market
Forces Cited in Lymphoma Drug's Disuse Successful
patient experience with a procedure that works and the market forces
which deny its use.
Nov. 17, 2005
REPORT
ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT'S ISOTOPE
PROGRAM, Office
of Inspector General, US-DOE - DOE/IG-0709.
"...The audit disclosed that the Department had not always provided researchers
with the isotopes needed to conduct planned research. Much of this research
was designed to identify breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment
of various cancers and other life-threatening diseases. Since 1998, independent
reviews, many of which were sponsored by ihe Department, have noted that
the Isotope Program did not fully support production of research isotopes
and that it had not adequately served the needs of the research community.
Our review disclosed similar and continuing problems. ..." |
Supporting
Sponsors of 2008 CMI Symposium
"The
Cure Starts Here!"
Advanced
Medical Isotopes Corp.
Conover
Insurance
Central
Washington Building & Construction Council
International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers
Kestrel
Vintners
National
Association of Cancer Patients
Picazo House
Tri-Cities Local
Business Association
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