Commercial Dispatch Online

Commercial Dispatch Online: "“There are 300 MRI sites around the Southeast and they are our No. 1 priority,” Lee Herring, general manager at Linde Gas in Bessemer, Ala., told the Birmingham News.

The helium supply dropped to its lowest point - 50 percent of normal levels - in November. But Herring said he expects the shortage to end soon. He predicted the supply would be back to normal by March or April."