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Topic started on 10-8-2009 @ 12:49 PM by ProtoplasmicTraveler

Isotope shortage means a healthcare crisis


www.latimes.com
By Thomas H. Maugh II
August 9, 2009
The abrupt shutdown of two aging nuclear reactors that produce a radioisotope widely used in medical imaging has forced physicians in the U.S. and abroad into a crisis, requiring them to postpone or cancel necessary scans for heart disease and cancer, or turn to alternative tests that are not as accurate, take longer and expose patients to higher doses of radiation.

Because of limits on testing produced by the shortage, some patients will undergo heart or cancer surgeries that could have been prevented by imaging, and others will miss needed surgeri
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reply posted on 10-8-2009 @ 12:49 PM by ProtoplasmicTraveler
This is a highly interesting and somewhat disturbing story for those who are taking a greater interest these days regarding the state of health care in America.

What makes this story even more interesting is how American politics regarding the War on Terror are actually causing a Health Care Crisis world wide!

I critical isotope used for the most sophisticated internal radio image has been in a critically short supply for months now with the supply so sporadic that critical medical tests needed as a precursor for the most difficult and sophisticated surgeries is often causing delays of up to a month for hospitals, labs and patients the conduct and need the tests.

The isotope once in plentiful supply has become scarcer and scarcer as the U.S. Government leans on governments throughout the world to move away from using the high yield fission uranium in Nuclear Reactors need to produce the isotope to low yield fission uranium which can not produce the isotope but is likewise also difficult to produce nuclear weapons with as well.

The world’s medical industry which depends on the isotope is now down to a total of 4 aging Nuclear Reactors world wide that still use the high yield fissionable uranium needed to properly radiate the isotope. Those 4 reactors are aging and routinely being shut down for repairs and because of leaks. Canada fears it’s 40 year old reactor shut now for a month because of contamination leaks into the ground water supply may never open again and if it does not for months.

It looks like the U.S. and the so called ‘War on Terror’ is not only incapable of running a Health Care System of it’s own but is jeopardizing the function of Health Care Systems throughout the world!


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