Quebec hospital uses old technology to ease medical isotope shortage
Friday, June 5, 2009 - 14:42
in Health & Medicine
A hospital in Quebec has found a way to ease the impact of the worldwide shortage of medical isotopes, by resurrecting an old test that uses an isotope which doesn't require a nuclear reactor to produce it.
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