
- Tyco Announces New Position
- Tyco Healthcare/ Mallinckrodt has
announced the creation of a new position, Director of Pharmacy
Operations. To learn more about this position and other
opportunities you can visit
The Nuclear Pharmacy website.
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- Kathy Seifert Leaving Cardinal
Health
- Kathy
Seifert will be leaving her position as the director of the
Quality and Regulatory department at CH at the end of December to
join Seifert and Associates, a managed care consulting firm she will operate
with her husband, Randy. Kathy has served as an officer in the
Nuclear Pharmacy Section of the APhA and on many different
committees and councils within the Society of Nuclear Medicine.
She was involved with the ACMUI in providing critical input to NRC
on the regulations pertaining to nuclear medicine and nuclear
pharmacy. Educating and training pharmacists and technicians
is one of the legacies that Kathy will leave with the business.
She was the driving force in establishing or enhancing many of the
education efforts we now enjoy within nuclear pharmacy. We
would like to thank Kathy for over 25 years of service to the
profession!
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- PET Scans Identify People at
Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
- Using brain imaging, researchers
at Columbia University Medical Center have found clear differences
in brain function between healthy people who carry a genetic risk
factor for Alzheimer’s disease and those who lack the factor.
For more information...

Jan. 27-30 |
SNM Mid-Winter Meeting, Tampa, FL (including a Nuclear
Pharmacy Update) |
Mar. 18-19 |
Clinical Pet/CT and Spect/CT Imaging of Cancer for Radiologists
and Nuclear Physicians, Baltimore, MD |
April 1-5 |
APhA 2005 Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL |
April 8-10 |
Pacific Northwest Chapter PET/CT Symposium
Coeur D'alene, Idaho |
April 15-17 |
35th Annual Spring Meeting Mid-Eastern Chapter, SNM, Ocean
City, MD |
June 18-22 |
Society of Nuclear Medicine 52nd Annual Meeting
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
June 24-28 |
The 16th
International Symposium on
Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, Iowa City |
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Nuclear energy has
played a vital role in the study of our solar
system. Radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs),
which convert heat produced from radioactive decay
into electricity, are used to power our space
crafts. The Pioneer, Voyager, Galileo, and Ulysses
missions have required the use of RTGs for
electrical power. Ulysses, which was launched in
1990 to study the sun, uses electricity produced by
a single RTG to power all its equipment and
instruments. Plutonium-238, the radioisotope used
in the RTG, has an 87.7 year half-life, which
allows missions to last many years. The Ulysses
mission is scheduled to last until 2008.
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A 22 year old female with multiple
congenital anomalies, including sacral agenesis, imperforated anus,
duplicated reproductive organs, and hypospadia of the urethra. MRI
revealed two ureters extending to each kidney consistent with
bilateral ureteral duplication. Continued....

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