Worldwide shortage of isotopes for medical imaging could threaten quality of patient care

Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Twenty million medical scans and treatments are done each year that require radioactive isotopes and scientists today described a global shortage of these life-saving materials that could jeopardise patient care and drive-up health care costs...

Read the whole article on

More from

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net