NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, based in Madison, Wis., announced a non-exclusive letter of intent yesterday with major radiopharmacy chain Triad Isotopes in an effort to provide a U.S. source of molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), which decays to produce technetium-99m (Tc-99m), used in the lion's share of nuclear medicine procedures.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new use for Lymphoseek (technetium 99m tilmanocept) Injection, a radioactive diagnostic imaging agent used to help doctors determine the extent a type of cancer called squamous cell carcinoma has spread in the body’s head and neck region.

The Interactive Patient Profiler for AdreView is a simulation tool designed to help educate physicians on the use of AdreView (Iobenguane I 123 Injection) to assess mortality risk in patients with heart failure. The tool demonstrates the types of patients where the use of AdreView can provide further information to assist physicians in identifying patients who may have a lower one- and two-year mortality risk, among groups of patients with similar profiles based on other clinical information.

As the 2014 Annual Meeting for the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) came to a close this year, Molecular Imaging sat down with Barry A. Siegel, MD, professor of radiology and medicine and chief of the nuclear medicine division at Washington University School of Medicine here in St. Louis. Siegel was honored this year with the most prestigious award presented during the meeting: the Benedict Cassen Prize.

General discontent followed a one-time, exponential price hike from Jubilant DraxImage starting April 1 for the company’s exclusive MAA kit for the preparation of technetium-99m albumin, a lung perfusion agent. An industry forum on challenges in the radiopharmaceutical realm presented during the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) 2014 Annual Meeting in St. Louis featured a panel of speakers, including vice president of sales, marketing and business development for JDI, Kevin Brooks, who made a case for the company.

Piramal Imaging released details from research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), currently underway at St. Louis Convention Center in St. Louis, Mo.

It is widely publicized that amyloid in the brain may not be the best agent for gauging progression and severity of Alzheimer’s disease. Tau imaging seems to hold greater promise in that arena. What does this mean for amyloid imaging?

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) biomarkers have been the standard for imaging agents that target hormonally active breast cancers that tend to be very aggressive. Now researchers have developed an alternative and potentially more comprehensive biomarker of disease, HER3, according to a study presented during this week’s Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s 2014 Annual Meeting, which was held June 7-11 in St. Louis.