Science news articles about 'global shortage'

Thanks to a newly-developed technology, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past.

A global shortage of medical isotopes* used in over 80% of routine diagnostic nuclear imaging procedures such as heart imaging, bone scans and some cancer detection procedures, will cause delays and ...

Officials at the Ottawa Hospital said Thursday that the global shortage of medical isotopes has caused them to delay some medical tests for cancer patients.

... Declaration of Istanbul states that because unethical practices are an undesirable consequence of the global shortage of organs for transplantation, each country should implement programs to prevent ...

Thanks to a newly-developed technology at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, global shortages of radio isotopes for cancer diagnosis could be a thing of the past. This is the ...

... (primarily Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A and W135), which current vaccines target. Because of global shortages of meningococcal vaccines, the researchers investigated the use of lower doses. In ...

... (1) are published online this week in Springer's journal Human Ecology. In the context of global shortages of fossil energy – oil and natural gas in particular – governments worldwide are focusing on ...

Ploughing resources into the use of natural gas as an alternative energy supply could lead to global shortage within 20 years time, according to a leading energy expert.

... control," he said. "The negative impact of XDR-TB is further exacerbated by a global shortage of healthcare workers, a shortage which has reached crisis levels in most of sub-Saharan Africa." "XDR-TB ...

... uranium reserves, although a significant amount of uranium is produced in nuclear wastes. There is no global shortage of uranium but from the point of view of energy security the EU needs to be able ...