Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

a nuclear medicine physician in the IAEA Division of Human Health. This includes myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) - a 'stress test' that examines blood flow through the heart muscle. The Hospital ...

The film discusses the groundbreaking development of radioisotopes in medicine, beginning with the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942. It details the production and application of isotopes, ...

In an interview on how recent federal actions are affecting the research enterprise, NAS President Marcia McNutt said, ...

Too many people still miss heart trouble Is your heart healthy? In a 2015 study published in JAMA, eight out of 10 men and women with scarring on their heart muscle—evidence of a previous heart attack ...

Eight scholars from Brown University looked back at the pandemic with an eye toward how its lessons can help the United ...

It brought us together and it ripped us apart. Five years after the arrival of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan, the province continues to grapple with a complicated legacy that challenges our core beliefs ...

Medicare will generally cover a nuclear stress test when a doctor deems it medically necessary. However, specific coverage details and criteria may vary, so a person may wish to consult their ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has called for the urgent entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. At the 64th Session of Working Group B of the Comprehensive Nuclear ...

Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had previously only been theorised. The study provides new ...

As workers remove melted fuel debris from the reactors in a monumental nuclear clean-up effort that could take more than a century, they are facing both huge amounts of psychological stress and ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 ...