Business Wire

ORALTAG™ (iohexol), a New Oral Contrast Agent for Abdominal CT Scans, Launched in U.S.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiary Interpharma Praha, a.s. announced today that ORALTAG, a formulation of dry, dissolvable iohexol powder for oral ...
Becker's Hospital Review

UW, Mayo Clinic test new agent to improve CT scans

Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., the University of California San Francisco and Nextrast found that a new oral contrast ...
Poynter

COVID-19 shutdown causes surprise global shortage of ‘contrast fluids’ used in CT scans, X-rays and MRIs

Hospitals are just learning about and are very concerned that a shortage of the fluid they use to make CT scans and MRIs more readable may last until late June. For example, The University of Alabama ...
Agence France-Presse

GE HealthCare Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase 2/3 LUMINA Trial for Manganese-Based MRI Contrast Agent Under FDA Fast Track Designation, Further A…

GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) today announced the first patient has been dosed in the international, multi-center Phase 2/3 ...
WGHP

Cone Health limiting some non-emergency CT, cardiac scans due to worldwide shortage of contrast dye

(WGHP) — Millions of Americans are taking another hit from a shortage. This time, it’s affecting hospitals worldwide and here in the Piedmont Triad. Due to a COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China.
News Tribune

Drug needed for crucial medical scans in short supply, being rationed in parts of WA state

Imaging technologist and patient during a CT scan at Radiology/Imaging Services at UWMC-Roosevelt in Seattle. Clare McLean UWMC Some hospitals in Washington are rationing medical scans and rethinking ...