Hospitals across the U.S. are being forced to ration medical scans and procedures after a lockdown in Shanghai hit a plant that produces a widely used contrast dye. The dye, made by General Electric, ...

The study compared five strategies: reducing the dosage of the iodinated dye alongside less tube voltage, weight-based dosage, using unenhanced CT instead of contrast CT if it’s safe, a combination of ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hospitals across the country and here in Western New York are seeing shortages of the contrast dye used for medical imaging, and it stems from COVID lockdowns in China this past spring ...

Hospitals around the U.S. are postponing CT scans and rationing care while waiting on shipments of medical dye made in a Shanghai plant that just restarted production amid the city’s lockdown. Called ...

Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Some Louisiana hospitals are feeling the impact of the shortage of a dye that is critical to some medical tests. CT scans and MRIs are important to many diagnoses and health care.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - An Eastern Iowa family says a loved one diagnosed with cancer can’t receive the needed CT scan because of a global shortage of contrast dye. “I’ve never heard about this, ...

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