Present Progress in Nuclear Medicine.

[Present status and progress of endocrine nuclear medicine].

The author reviewed present status and progress of endocrine nuclear medicine including thyroid, parathyroid, adrenocortical, adrenomedullary and somatostatin receptor imaging and also radionuclide therapy of Basedow's disease, metastatic foci of post-operative thyroid cancer and malignant neural crest tumor. Relatively new imaging agents include 99mTc-MIBI and 99mTc-tetrofosmin for parathyroid...

Nuclear medicine UK: signs of progress

At last there are clear signs that a road ahead is being mapped. Recent National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines recommend a major development for nuclear medicine in cardiology. The present abysmal UK rate of 1.1 investigations/1 000 000/year compared poorly with the known EU rate of 4/1 000 000/year and the inflated rate of 7/1 000 000/year achieved in the USA. National Institute ...

Physics applications in nuclear medicine: progress on many fronts.

Evolution of nuclear medicine training: past, present, and future.

Since the official inception of nuclear medicine in 1971, the practice of nuclear medicine and its training programs have undergone major revisions. Numerous procedures that were common in the 1970s are no longer available, and many new radiotracers and procedures have since been developed. Training programs have evolved from an unstructured experience before 1971 to 2 y of nuclear medicine tra...

Role and relevance of traditional medicine in the present era

There are several systems of medicine practiced in the world, every system with its own basis, philosophy and therapeutics but with one common object: alleviation of disease. The knowledge of drugs goes back to prehistoric time. Man savage must have known by experience how to relieve his suffering by the use of herbs growing in his vicinity. Records of ancient civilization show that a considera...