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Targeted radiopharmaceuticals offer new hope for longer 'healthspans'

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An emerging field of precision radiopharmaceuticals brings new optimism to this mission, revolutionizing cancer care. Precision radiopharmaceuticals accurately target tumors while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Precision radiopharmaceuticals represent a step toward better, longer lifespans for all.

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Medicare to boost payment for certain diagnostic imaging agents

Radiology Business

CMS is moving forward with a proposal to issue separate reimbursement for radiopharmaceuticals—a change long lobbied for by the imaging industry.

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Blue Earth Therapeutics Announces Promising Results from Preclinical Evaluation of Synergistic Drug Combinations with Radiopharmaceutical 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1 for Treatment of Prostate Cancer

Imaging Technology

an investigational radiohybrid (rh) Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen-targeted therapeutic radiopharmaceutical, is the lead candidate in Blue Earth Therapeutics’ oncology development program of next generation therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. 177Lu-rhPSMA-10.1,

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Assessing a Landmark Change in CMS Reimbursement for Diagnostic Radiopharmaceuticals

Diagnostic Imaging

In an interview, SNMMI president Cathy Cutler, PhD, discussed the impact of the recent CMS decision to unbundle reimbursement for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals costing above $630 a day, calling it a “game changer” decision that will benefit patients, physicians, and the development of new radiopharmaceutical agents.

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Philochem and Blue Earth Diagnostics Announce First Three Patients Imaged in Phase 1 Clinical Trial of 68Ga-OncoFAP (68Ga-OncoFAP-DOTAGA) for Diagnostic Imaging in Solid Tumors

Imaging Technology

and Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco company and recognized leader in the development and commercialization of innovative PET radiopharmaceuticals, today provided additional information regarding a March 2022 licensing and collaboration agreement between Philochem and Blue Earth Diagnostics.

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Blue Earth Diagnostics, a Bracco Company, Appoints Marco Campione as Chief Executive Officer

Imaging Technology

Campione also joins the Blue Earth Diagnostics Ltd. “I Blue Earth Diagnostics, an indirect subsidiary of Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Bracco Imaging S.p.A.,

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A Closer Look at Urinary Activity and PET Radiopharmaceuticals for Prostate Cancer Imaging

Diagnostic Imaging

In a recent interview at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) conference in Chicago, Phillip Kuo, M.D.,