IAEA WEBINAR COVID-19 Pandemic: Guidance for Nuclear Medicine Departments

Dear colleagues, Faced with the current COVID-19 pandemic, Nuclear Medicine Departments worldwide are adapting their routine operations to minimize risks of exposure to their patients, staff and the public. In addition to establishing standard operating procedures during these unprecedented times, it is essential to contain the virus transmission, and protect those...

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Mandela Rhodes Scholarship

Call for Applications 2021 For more information about the Scholarship and application process, go to www.mandelarhodes.org Opening date for 2021 applications is 16 March 2020 Closing date is 16 April 2020

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MPWB Sponsored Webinar: COVID-19 – A Medical Physics Perspective from Italy

Medical Physics for World Benefit (MPWB) (www.mpwb.org) is hosting a webinar entitled “COVID-19-Related Issues: A Medical Physics Perspective from Italy”. The COVID-19 pandemic provides unique challenges for Medical Physicists. This webinar will enable participants to learn from the experience of the Medical Physics Department in Milan, Italy. Specific questions will be...

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Call for Abstract Open for ICARO-3

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is organizing the third International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-3), following the successes of the first and second conferences (ICARO-1 and ICARO-2), which were held in 2009 and 2017. The advances in radiotherapy in the last years have been striking, although numerous...

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WHO Medical Devices April 2020 Newsletter

“Today, more than ever, medical devices are indispensable to save lives” Once confirming good quality, we should make every effort to ensure medical devices for COVID are: available, accessible, appropriate and affordable to those that need them the most, and to deliver training for safe use! ————————————————— Dear colleagues, as...

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MPI Special Issue on History No. 3

EDITORIAL Slavik Tabakov, Perry Sprawls and Geoffrey Ibbott HISTORY OF DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY: EVOLUTION OF 2D AND 3D IMAGING MODALITIES R. Pauwels THE HISTORY OF CONTRAST MEDIA DEVELOPMENT IN X-RAY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Adrian M K Thomas MEDICAL PHYSICS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA – STATUS, EDUCATION, CHALLENGES, FUTURE T.A. Ige, F. Hasford, S....

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WHO March 2020, Medical Devices Newsletter: COVID-19 and in vitro diagnostics

WHO Medical Devices Newsletter Dear colleagues, we are all facing very difficult times in the world with the COVID pandemic. Some extracts from WHO media briefing:  Today’s  Friday 13, WHO news: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-03-2020-who-un-foundation-and-partners-launch-first-of-its-kind-covid-19-solidarity-response-fund  “Funds will go towards actions outlined in the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to enable all countries...

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