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Radiation Doses Dropping, Mayo Clinic Experts Say
Newswise - Many misconceptions exist about the risks associated with radiation doses and CT scans. Experts at Mayo Clinic want patients to have the right information about radiation dose, including wh...
AMA lobbies for Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act
The American Medical Association (AMA) has sent letters to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX ) supporting passage of the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act, legisl...
Human sensitivity to radiation
The Health Protection Agency has issued a new report on human sensitivity to radiation. The HPA’s independent Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation (AGIR) says that evidence suggests that the ri...
Diagnostic chest radiation before 30 may increase breast cancer risk
Women carrying a mutation in the BRCA1- or BRCA2- genes (which control the suppression of breast and ovarian cancer) who have undergone diagnostic radiation to the chest before the age of 30 are more...
Urology-owned radiation oncology self-referral can increase patients' travel distance for treatment
(American Society for Radiation Oncology) Men with prostate cancer in Texas may be driving more than three times farther than needed to obtain radiation oncology treatments for their cancer when treat...
Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act Helps Preserve Access to Care
The American College of Radiology supports the Diagnostic Imaging Services Access Protection Act (H.R. 846), recently introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX), Peter Roskam (R-IL), John Barrow (D-GA), Be...
EMF Radiation Protection for Father's Day
AdrProVita makes it easier to provide EMF radiation protection for this Father's Day. Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) June 13, 2013 With the Father's day just around the corner, this Father's Day i...
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Radiation protection in radiation oncology : Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Publications about radiation protection issues are not very frequent in the 100-year-old history of Strahlentherapie und Onkologie. While at the beginning of the last century the problems of radiation...
It is currently unclear whether exposure of the heart and vascular system, at lifetime accumulated dose levels relevant to the general public (
Uncomfortable issues in radiation protection posed by low-dose radiobiology.
This paper aims to stimulate discussion about the relevance for radiation protection of recent findings in low-dose radiobiology. Issues are raised which suggest that low-dose effects are much more co...
Current issues and actions in radiation protection of patients.
Medical application of ionizing radiation is a massive and increasing activity globally. While the use of ionizing radiation in medicine brings tremendous benefits to the global population, the associ...
A Summary of Recommendations for Occupational Radiation Protection in Interventional Cardiology.
The radiation dose received by cardiologists during percutaneous coronary interventions, electrophysiology procedures and other interventional cardiology procedures can vary by more than an order of m...
