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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:12 PM

Radiation

Type: Keyphrase
Name: Radiation
description: Transmission of energy though space or any medium. Also known as radiant energy.
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 8 hours ago - 6 Documents (in Health)
Rare Pancreatic Cancer Patients May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy
Pancreatic Patients May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy Medical Medical Medical Worldwide Search / Oncology hip Funny Useful Websites Medical and Clinical Translation Details of over ... [MediLexicon - 8 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 14 Documents (in Earth Science)
Smoke rises from Japan nuclear plant (AFP)
TOKYO (AFP) Smoke rose on Thursday from the world's largest in Japan, which was shut down by an earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak.The smoke was caused by friction from the brake of a crane ... [Yahoo! News - 11/19/2009]
Entities: Japan, Radiation, Earthquake
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents (in Biology)
How dangerous is the radiation from a mammogram?
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended Monday that women without risk factors for breast cancer . That's because early screening yields almost 50 times as many false positives as true cancers, , and early detection doesn't do much good in ... [Slate Magazine - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Biology)
Radiation exposures of cancer patients from medical X-rays: How relevant are they for individual patients and population exposure
Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 11/03/09 Relevance Score: 69%Canadian Family Physician, 10/14/09 Relevance Score: 68%Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, 10/28/09 Relevance Score: 67%MedLinePlus, 10/23/09 Relevance Score: 67%International ... [MDLinx - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)
New Flash CT Reduces Radiation Dose by up to 90 Percent
Communities - CTNYU Langone Medical Center is the first hospital in the northeast to offer one of the world's fastest and most radiation-dose-efficient computed tomography ( CT ) scanner.The Siemens SOMATOM Definition Flash can image ten times as fast ... [Medicexchange.com - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Scotland's Energy Assistance Package To Help Rural Homes Receive Low Carbon Energy
Households in rural parts of Scotland will be offered cheap to run, 'plug in' energy to help cut household fuel bills. Grants of up to £6500 are being made available through the Scottish Government's £60 million Energy Assistance Package, to install low-carbon ... [eGov Monitor - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Health)
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CT scans are faster in ruling out heart attacks: research
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.About 6 million people each year go to hospitals with chest pain, ... [China Post - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Medicine)
Why Women Reject the Mammogram Recommendations
Most adult women know a woman in her 40s who was diagnosed with breast cancer and died. So the news this week that mammograms and self–breast exams do little to protect women under 50 against breast cancer—and that doctors have nothing new to offer in ... [MSNBC Newsweek - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Rochester Electronics Expands Space-Level Manufacturing Capabilities
Rochester provides today’s space-level semiconductors to be available indefinitely…Source: Rochester ElectronicsFor further information, please contact:George KaraliasDirector of Marketing and Communicationsgkaralias@rocelec.comTel: 978-462-9332 x331 ... [EDN.com - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Cooperation Agreement On The Research Project 'FALKO' Was Signed
High-power fiber lasers for applications in industrial material processing such as cutting and welding have been intensely investigated over the past few years. During this time, fiber lasers with optical output powers in excess of 2kW and excellent beam ... [Fiber Optics Online - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents
Radiation therapists and the Internet: a perspective from Australia
Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, 11/17/09 Relevance Score: 66%ScienceDaily, 11/12/09 Relevance Score: 47%Canadian Family Physician, 10/14/09 Relevance Score: 47%Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy, 10/26/09 Relevance Score: 45%American Journal of ... [MDLinx - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Joyce: Why I’m still voting no on the CPRS
hamish - in a nutshell, CO2, methane and other gases form a layer in the upper atmosphere. Solar radiation in its various wavelengths pass through but when the radiation is reflected back off the earth, some of the radiation does not pass through, and ... [Crikey Media - 11/19/2009]

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Theodore S Lawrence, M D , Ph D , FASTRO, an author on the study and chair of the University of Michigan Department of Radiation Oncology, said, "While this particular type of cancer can have potentially devastating effects on a patient, this study proves that using external beam radiation therapy may permit these patients to live longer, which is a very positive breakthrough for a disease that can have very negative outcomes."
Rare Pancreatic Cancer Patients May Live Longer When Treated With Radiation Therapy [MediLexicon - 8 hours ago]
"There really is enough data now to say your ability to detect a tumor is not that good and there is a great risk of getting unnecessary biopsies and unneeded radiation" he said. "The harms really outweigh the benefits."
Guidelines against self-exams for breast cancer ignite firestorm [Baltimore Sun - 11 hours ago]
...said the recommendation -- that women start breast cancer screening at age 50 instead of 40 -- was developed by a team of experts who reviewed "all the information about the number of mammograms that were done, and the number of cancers that were detected, and biopsies that were conducted, and some of the impacts of repeated radiation on women."
Breast cancer researchers at Sausalito forum defend mammogram advice [Individual.com - 17 hours ago]

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Tom Matlack: Put Your Manhood On The Tray [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009]
My wife's annual mammogram has always been a time of great anxiety. It's my least favorite week of the year. Not because she has cancer but because she ...
Jenny Block: Dead Moms Everywhere -- That's Wha... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009]
My mother would be dead. There's nothing complicated about it. She would be dead if she had not gone in to have her routine mammogram at age 45. There ...
Krauthammer's Take -- By: NRO Staff [The Corner on National Review Online - 11/20/2009]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars. On the Reid health-care bill: Where do you start? This is a really unbelievable bill. Because the provisions that the ...
Skip The Spray-on Sunscreen? Widely Used Nanopa... [Treehugger - 11/20/2009]
Photo: It's a fact of life that nanoparticles are everywhere: from sunscreen to underwear to performance wear - they are an invisible part of everyday life. Nanotechnology ...
Sound Off: Your comments 11/19/09 [Anderson Cooper 360 - 11/20/2009]
Editor's Note: We continued to hear from many of you about our special investigation, "Killings at the Canal.” While most feel that the killings were justified, ...
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