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Childhood Cancer can Lead to Chronic Health Problems Later in Life: Study

...les with cancer and its treatment with chemicals, radiation and surgery included secondary cancers, obesity, i... than half the children in the study who underwent radiation treatment had a high or severe burden of illness by the time they were young adults, compared to 25 ...

Impotence and Incontinence Greatly Reduced With New Prostate Cancer Treatment

...By uniting a multidisciplinary team of urologists, radiation oncologists and clinical physicists working closel...ellent results with minimum side-effects. With a radiation source inside rather than outside the body, there is no need to penetrate healthy tissue in order to...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

...t some health policies in detail, such as how much radiation astronauts can be exposed to from space travel (No more radiation than the amount that would increase the risk of cancer by 3 percent over the astronaut's career) and...

Denim, Not Cotton, Apt Wear for Summer

...be kept in mind that not every shirt blocks the UV radiation sufficiently.' While covering up and staying out of the sun may well be the best option, it is 'deemed to be unacceptable in our global, outdoor society.' 'Sunscreens could become the predominant mode of sun protection for various societal reas...

CT Better Than Plain Radiographs in Diagnosing Lumbar Spine Fractures

...ents and also save valuable resources. Unnecessary radiation exposure can also be avoided," she said....

Brian Lara Opens Cancer Center Named After Him

...g and high precision targeted intensity modulation radiation therapy....

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

...pain, reported health portal Health Central. The radiation put out by a computer screen has nothing to do wit..., although that's a common myth. Any ultra violate radiation from a computer screen is minimal, director of the AOA's clinical care group Jeffrey Weaver said. ...

Many Hours on Computer may Harm Eyes

... pain, reported health portal Health Central. The radiation put out by a computer screen has nothing to do wit..., although that's a common myth. Any ultra violate radiation from a computer screen is minimal, director of the AOA's clinical care group Jeffrey Weaver said. ...

Medical Marijuana Activist Drops Lawsuit

...finally started causing damage and I have to start radiation treatment in a couple of weeks at Stanford," she explained, adding she's lost some sensation in the left side of her face, including problems with blinking, chewing and swallowing. But she also insisted she was not giving up as yet and that she wou...

Exposure to CT Scan Radiation may Be Equivalent to That of Nuclear Bomb

...risk of cancer. They suggest that the amount of radiation that patients are exposed to during CT scans may i... atomic bombs. According to some estimates, the radiation exposure a patient receives from a full-body CT scan is often 500 times that of a conventional X-ray...

US Professors Develop Fusion Protein to Fight Cancer

...d sickness, the two main side effects of chemo and radiation therapies, which kill normal cells along with cancer cells. Pinto explains, 'So you can see it would cause a lot less toxicity and it should really be a lot more effective.' The research began with breast cancer and expanded to include other types...

Cryoablation is a Safe Procedure for Breast Cancer Patients

...an with two small ( The patient refused surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy or chemoprevention therapy, says Gale A. Sisney, MD, lead author of the report. In all but one published case, cryoablation in breast cancer has been followed by surgery to remove the tumor. The patient had an excellent cosmetic...

'Muscle Noise' may Diagnose Neuromuscular Disease Sans Radiation Exposure

...ay be also be used alone, eliminating the need for radiation altogether. Sabra says that the new technique may also be used to monitor sports injuries, such as pulled tendons, reports the New Scientist. The researchers are now planning to conduct further research to study how to improve the accuracy of the...

Combining NSAIDs With Chemotherapy May Improve Cancer Therapy

...erick Domann, Ph.D., UI professor, both faculty in radiation oncology and in the Free Radical and Radiation Bio...er at the UI. Goswami and Domann added that when radiation is used to treat head and neck cancers after surgery, the cells most resistant to radiation therapy ...

Are Main Rivers in Himalayas Under Threat?

...certed efforts are not made to recover two missing radiation detectors in the Himalayan ranges, another Chernob...her Himalayan range, the Nanda Devi, to locate two radiation detectors planted there by Western governments to spy on China's nuclear programme. The Ganges and...

Astronauts can Now Feed on 'radiation-eating' Fungi

...hat Earth's energeticsin particular, the amount of radiation energy being converted to biological energymay nee... recalculated," says Casadevall. "Since ionizing radiation is prevalent in outer space, astronauts might be able to rely on fungi as an inexhaustible food sour...

Circadian Clocks Triggered Chemical Reactions may Be Behind Jet Lag

... protect against damage from the sun's ultraviolet radiation just after sunrise. They studied a protein called vivid, which contains a chromophore, a light-absorbing molecule. The researchers say that the chromophore captures a particle of light, and the captured energy from the light triggers a series of in...

Some Cancers Linked to Very Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

...sed to much higher levels of electromagnetic field radiation than the general population. The researchers checked the full employment records of 20,141 Swiss railway workers in employment or retired from post between 1972 and 2002. Information on deaths among the employees was obtained from national data. ...

Capsule Endoscopy is Effective in Diagnosing GI Problems Children

...s disease. Of improving diagnosis while limiting radiation exposure to children with Crohns disease. In conducting the research, 34 patients, whose ages range from 7 to 19 years, underwent capsule endoscopy procedure. The subjects qualified because they were experiencing unexplained abdominal pain, GI blee...

High Pretreatment PSA Velocity Predicts Worse Outcome

...owing treatment with radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiation therapy (RT). Dr. DAmico reviewed data from 948 men with localized prostate cancer who had one or more high-risk factors. Dr. DAmico and his co-authors found that the most important single prognostic factor was PSA velocity. As expected, men who h...

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