Have a news tip on local trends or businesses? Or a good feature? You can reach reporter Laura Peters (she/her) at. Laura Peters is the trending topics reporter at The News Leader. The injection is currently being reviewed for human use. Radium has developed shields to protect hospital staff from gammas emitted and monitor infusion during treatment of neuroendocrine tumors, the release said.Īnother product on the works is a shield for an injection used in the treatment of osteoarthritis in canines, which relieves pain and inflammation for up to one year, the release said. With ClearView, a hospital can retrofit a patient room into a therapy room at half the cost, the release said.

Many hospitals spend over a million dollars to make a lead lined room, which requires significant time, structural reinforcement and can be cost prohibitive. Radiotherapies require a shielded room so people in the hallway by the therapy room are not exposed to radiation coming from the patient, the release said. More: Suspect sentenced for pulling armed robbery at Mary Baldwin University More: COVID concerns force cancellation of youth football season More: New All Black Library added in Waynesboro thanks to the RISE Foundation The ClearView Rolling Shields allow the patient to see and interact with their family and the hospital staff. Hospitals that would use two 1,000-pound shields can now use two shields, each 285 pounds, which significantly reduces traveling hazards with the equipment, the release said. Lead shields also come in fixed sizes, while ClearView Rolling Shields are almost always custom made, the release said. Lead shields weigh approximately 1,000 pounds and can be extremely heavy and difficult to move around. The ClearView shields are lighter in weight than lead, significantly better than lead glass and available in high lead equivalencies, the release said. Lead glass shields are normally used as shields. 'With the FDA increasing approvals of radiopharmaceuticals, Radium has been encouraged to continue its growing presence in the healthcare industry,' Abernethy said in a release. The ClearView shields can be used with inpatient radiotherapy for treatment of pheochromocytoma and neuroblastoma, cancers found in the adrenal glands, the release said. According to Cam Abernethy, president of Radium Incorporated, no local hospitals have utilized these shields yet. 'Collaborating with nuclear medicine staff, physicians and radioisotope manufacturers has been great and we will continue to create innovative products focused on radiation protection,' Jayeesh Bakshi, director of Engineering and New Products of Radium Incorporated, said in a release.ĬlearView rolling shields allow for communication during radiotherapies between patients and caregivers while providing radiation protection. Several hospitals are using these lighter shields, which enable better handling and easier transport, the release said.

They are located in a 3,600 square foot building in Waynesboro and have five employees. ClearView Radiation Shielding is used by half of the nuclear plants in United States - and Radium Incorporated is currently expanding into Mexico and Canada. It also provides services and other products to nuclear power plants that reduce exposure to personnel by creating efficiencies in their tasks. Its core business is manufacturing its patented transparent radiation shielding, ClearView, for use at nuclear power plants and its growing use in the medical industry. Radium Incorporated was started in 2004 in Lexington, South Carolina and relocated in 2006 to Waynesboro. Radium Incorporated was awarded a patent for their proprietary shielding solution called ClearView Radiation Shielding. ClearView was developed in 2016 and first used in early 2017 by a chemistry department in a nuclear plant to perform analysis of radioactive water samples during a refueling outage, a release said. WAYNESBORO - A radiation shielding manufacturer out of Waynesboro has recently been awarded a patent for their shielding materials.

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