A global shortage of medical isotopes will cause delays and cancellations to diagnostic examinations across the UK and Europe in the next few weeks, the British Nuclear Medicine Society has warned.
UK hospitals are receiving less than 50 per cent of expected supplies of the substances, which are used in more than 80 per cent of routine diagnostic nuclear imaging procedures, it said.
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