Wisconsin Health News

SHINE aims to fight shortages of radioisotope needed in medical imaging

About a month ago, Greg Piefer's father had chest pains. He went to the hospital and told doctors he was having problems with his heart again. They gave him an EKG and said he was fine. But they didn't give him a test that would have used tracers, non-harmful radioactive particles often used a stress test to identify heart disease. (WHN, 4/27)
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