Radiology & Imaging
Human images from world's first total-body scanner unveiled
EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans.
Nov 19, 2018
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News tagged with radiation
Oncology & Cancer
Patients with rectal cancer who exercise while receiving radiation therapy more likely to have tumors disappear
Patients with rectal cancer who exercised while undergoing a form of tumor-shrinking radiation therapy in advance of surgery were more likely to have their tumors disappear, according to a University of Alberta study that ...
Oct 26, 2021
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Medications
Vitamin D found to improve symptoms of toxic erythema during chemotherapy
High doses of vitamin D alleviated symptoms for patients with toxic erythema of chemotherapy (TEC) significantly faster than current treatments, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA Dermatology.
Jan 18, 2023
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Health
Study links health risks to electromagnetic field exposure
A study of real-world exposure to non-ionizing radiation from magnetic fields in pregnant women found a significantly higher rate of miscarriage, providing new evidence regarding their potential health risks. The Kaiser Permanente ...
Dec 13, 2017
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Health
What happens when a patient treated with radioactive drugs is cremated?
In late 2017, a 69-year-old American man who had just received a lutetium 177-based radiation treatment for his pancreatic cancer died. Five days later, his remains were cremated.
Feb 26, 2019
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Medical research
Forever young: study uncovers protein that keeps skin youthful
Beauty might only be skin deep, but for those wondering how to keep that skin young, scientists may have found an answer in the form of a protein that encourages cell competition.
Apr 3, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US govt reveals details of sunlight study on virus
The US Department of Homeland Security revealed to AFP on Tuesday new technical details regarding its highly anticipated study into how ultraviolet radiation destroys the new coronavirus, saying that its experiment had accurately ...
Apr 29, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer researchers discover new salivary gland
Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have discovered salivary glands in a previously unknown location. This is potentially great news for patients with head and neck tumors: Radiation oncologists will now be able ...
Oct 16, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Case study shows patient on ketogenic diet living fully with IDH1-mutant glioblastoma
A British man who rejected the standard of care to treat his brain cancer has lived with the typically fatal glioblastoma tumor growing very slowly after adopting a ketogenic diet, providing a case study that researchers ...
Jun 10, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Heating could be the best way to disinfect N95 masks for reuse
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, N95 face masks have been in short supply. Health care workers, in particular, desperately need these masks to protect themselves from the respiratory droplets of infected patients. ...
May 5, 2020
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Radiation
In physics, radiation describes any process in which energy emitted by one body travels through a medium or through space, ultimately to be absorbed by another body. Non-physicists often associate the word with ionizing radiation (e.g., as occurring in nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, and radioactive substances), but it can also refer to electromagnetic radiation (i.e., radio waves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, and X-rays) which can also be ionizing radiation, to acoustic radiation, or to other more obscure processes. What makes it radiation is that the energy radiates (i.e., it travels outward in straight lines in all directions) from the source. This geometry naturally leads to a system of measurements and physical units that are equally applicable to all types of radiation.
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