Nuclear Medicine

• ‘Leap forward’: Halifax hospital 1st in Canada to get new nuclear medicine scanner

  The StarGuide SPECT/CT scanner by GE HealthCare is a first for the country, and the Nova Scotia Health says it will improve patient outcome in Atlantic Canada.

  Health

  Jun 3
  
• Ontario’s $6.8 million for McMaster’s nuclear reactor to help bump medical isotope production

  The provincial cash, spread over a three-year period, will contribute to a $25-million project allowing the MNR to operate 24 hours a day, five days per week.

  Education

  Mar 27, 2023
  
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• B.C. particle accelerator scores triumph with deal to produce ‘rarest drug on earth’

  UBC's TRIUMF facility is gearing up to produce actinium-225, a rare radioisotope that early research shows could have a powerful effect fighting cancer.

  Health

  Dec 24, 2020
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• Saskatchewan expects to be nuclear medicine research leader

  Funding from the Saskatchewan government will create jobs and allow scientists to conduct research at the U of S that couldn’t be done before.

  Health

  Oct 31, 2014