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Barbara Kram, Editor | January 30, 2006
Conti--who as SNM president represents more than 16,000 physician, technologist and scientist members--Henkin and Silberstein believe the report does demonstrate the need for increased communication among hospital departments, particularly as patients are transferred from one to another. "SNM would like to work with U.S. Pharmacopeia in the future and further define any issues that affect patients," said Henkin.
Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials (radiopharmaceuticals) along with imaging scans to diagnose, manage and treat disease. Nuclear medicine/molecular imaging procedures are an invaluable way to gather medical information that would otherwise be unavailable, require surgery or necessitate more expensive diagnostic tests. Daily, about 55,000 women, men and children benefit from medical imaging technologies in this country. Nearly all hospitals, as well as many clinics and private doctors' offices, perform nuclear medicine tests and scans.
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