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Summit Nuclear, a unit of Summit World Trade, has formed a businesspartnership with IBM. The IBM RS/6000 workstation serves as thecenterpiece of a nuclear medicine image and information network,called Vision, which was developed internally by Summit.

Some observers at the Society of Nuclear Medicine meeting in Cincinnatilast month were hopeful that the first monoclonal antibody imagingagents might receive Food and Drug Administration approval thissummer. Hope is becoming reality more quickly in

Summit World Trade changed the name of its nuclear medicine equipmentcompany from Spectrum Medical Systems to Summit Nuclear in January.Summit has also reassigned many of its sales representatives,who had been handling sales for Sopha Medical Systems, to

Elscint is readying a nuclear medicine patent infringement suitagainst Sopha Medical of France and its U.S. subsidiary, SophaMedical Systems of Columbia, MD. While Sopha executives are notcertain what specific charges are being made, they maintain

The Food and Drug Administration has a habit of approving drugsat the end of the year. An FDA panel had advised a marketing go-aheadfor CardioTec and Cardiolite, technetium-labeled nuclear cardiacimaging agents offered by Squibb and Du Pont,

For the past 10 years I have been lecturing on America's Radiation Phobia. Obviously, I am not doing a good job, because it is growing.