In this section you will find the most recent headlines in nuclear medicine research, past articles published in the Patient magazine and general information regarding the industry and it’s partners.
La tiroides es la glándula endocrina más grande de nuestro cuerpo y cumple funciones muy importantes, como la producción de hormonas tiroideas. Se necesita que haya niveles de hormonas tiroideas normales para que exista un funcionamiento de todos los tejidos y órganos en el cuerpo. Se estima que existe cerca de un 11% de la […]
Read articleDr.Seigo Kinuya WFNMB2022 Congress Chair Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University, Japan Interview by Dr.Francois Lamoureux You are the chair of the next congress of the world federation of nuclear medicine and biology (WFNMB) in kyoto japan 7-11 september 2022. could you give us an overview of the event. We are preparing to have […]
Read articleBy Grégoire Blais MD, FRCP Médecin nucléiste / Nuclear Medicine Specialist Centre de santé et de service sociaux de la Haute-Yamaska Granby, Québec, Canada Since March 2020 the significant « COVID-19 » pandemic has raged. From this period, there was significant confinement, social distancing and the wearing of masks were imposed. These measures have impacted on everyone’s […]
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Sergio Calvo, President, Radiopharmaceuticals Division at Jubilant Pharma Interview by Dr.Francois Lamoureux Sergio, you are the president of the Radiopharmaceuticals Division of Jubilant Pharma. Can you give us a brief summary of your involvement in Nuclear Medicine and Jubilant? First, I would like to thank e-Patient for this opportunity. My background is in engineering and […]
Read articleDear friends and colleagues around the world Francois Lamoureux and I are thrilled to introduce to our international readers the new issue of the internationally acclaimed Nuclear Medicine magazine ePatient. The lack of concerted efforts in research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals in the last part of the 20th century created a climate of uncertainty […]
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Par Dalila Benhaberou-Brun Les statistiques sont affligeantes : Au Canada, le cancer de la prostate touche quelque 25 000 hommes et un sur six n’y survivra pas. En effet, 4300 hommes meurent chaque année de cette maladie dans d’atroces douleurs, une réalité qui alarme le Dr.Fred Saad, chirurgien en urologie et chercheur au CRCHUM CAS […]
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The life of a person diagnosed with cancer changes dramatically in a single moment when they hear the words “you have cancer”. Imagine what it feels like to hear that you have neuroendocrine tumours (NETs), a rare cancer that is “usually” slow growing. Canadians are hearing this news with increasing frequency as the incidence of […]
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Theodore A. Henderson, MD, PhD Mention SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) brain imaging to a group of psychiatrists and you are likely to hear groans or angry retorts. The resistance to actually looking at brain function in psychiatric patients is startling. The well water seems to have been poisoned in psychiatry, perhaps by over-zealous […]
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Cada vez es más común tener un familiar o conocido que se haya realizado una cirugía tiroidea por un cáncer. Si bien esta percepción es correcta, se están operando más pacientes de tiroides en relación a otros cánceres proporcionalmente, la gravedad de esta “epidemia” no es tal. La letalidad del cáncer de tiroides no ha […]
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In this new issue of Pangea-ePatient we are starting a series of articles on radio- pharmaceuticals that are used for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that are now commonly called Theranostics. Theranostics, the new buzz word in medicine was coined in the early 2000’s by the CEO of PhamaNetics to define the vision for his […]
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