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Study reveals gaps in availability of radiotherapy services across Europe

Most strikingly, the study finds that in several countries in western Europe there are too few radiotherapy machines to ensure that cancer patients in need of radiotherapy receive treatment. For instance, in Italy around ...

Cancer created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Only clinically qualified medical physicists should be allowed to work in hospitals to avoid dangerous errors

In a Comment linked to The Lancet Physics Series, Dr Ahmed Meghzifene (Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria) cautions that only physicists with the correct clinical training should ...

Other created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nuclear medicine: a vital but troubled industry

Life begins at 40, but not for a small and ageing fleet of nuclear reactors vital for millions of life-saving medical procedures each year and using material that could go in an atomic bomb.

Other created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0