Cardinal Health opens new Omaha facility

Cardinal Health (Dublin, Ohio) said it has opened a new facility in Omaha, Nebraska, that manufactures radiopharmaceuticals, giving local physicians new tools that aid in the early diagnosis and treatment of disease.

The new manufacturing facility, known as a Cyclotron, will produce fluorine-18 (F-18), a raw material needed to create imaging agents that, when injected into patients, are visible during a positron emission tomography scan.