Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Radiation exposure

  • Money may not be the driving force behind increased medical imaging, according to new research that finds imaging, even when provided through HMOs which do not use a fee-for-service model, has increased significantly over the past 15 years.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Newswise — Concern about overexposure to radiation due to excessive use of medical imaging has come to the fore in recent years.
  • (Newswise)
  • San Francisco — Improved medical imaging tests give doctors a better look inside patients bodies and help them make earlier and more accurate diagnoses, but the radiation exposure can sometimes outweigh the benefits of these expensive tests.
  • (WRAL)
  • KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you had a CT scan?  How about an MRI?  A new report finds a huge increase in the use of those and other imaging tests.
  • (fox4kc.com)
  • Hoppe, a Marquette graduate student. Their study estimated radiation exposure to 29 organs, including skin, eye lens, heart, and the brain—using complex mathematical models that represent the shape and tissue density of human bodies and organs.
  • (Occupational Health Safety)
  • In April, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued a call for the development of robots to deal with stricken nuclear reactors to reduce human exposure to deadly radiation.
  • (Science Daily)
  • Marietta Dentists, Kirk Kimmerling DDS, Alex Krempa DMD and Suzanna Aguilera now offer rectangular collimation to reduce radiation exposure for patients needing x-rays.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • Because of these results, the Army asked Synedgen to test its proprietary polysaccharide, SYN01, in reducing mortality following exposure to lethal doses of ionizing radiation.
  • (San Francisco Gate)

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