Cancer treatment -- in particular, cranial radiation -- can also impair cognitive functioning, experts say.
Some iodine radiation-contaminated water from the site was also found to be running into the ocean.
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According to Einstein, many other sites may not be using radiation-reduction techniques at all.
Unlike the regulation of drugs or medical devices, radiation-emitting devices are not required to demonstrate medical utility.
Shippers have urged the government to issue certificates that would assure foreign ports that goods are radiation-free.
It's currently being evaluated for emerging technologies such as flexible structural health monitoring systems, self-healing materials, and radiation-protective materials.
Ionizing radiation-induced bystander effects, potential targets for modulation of radiotherapy, Rzeszowska-Wolny J, Przybyszewski WM, Widel M.
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The Nigerian government has banned another Halliburton subsidiary, Halliburton Energy Services Nigeria, from state contracts after radiation-emitting equipment went missing.
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed radiation-detection pods that can monitor airborne radiation using drones, without endangering human flight crews.
Cellerant has dosed radiation-ravaged lab mice with other mice's purified stem cells and watched them recover to full health in months.
Well, to that end, Radiation Shield Technologies has developed a full line of radiation-defeating garments (the thyroid collar being our favorite).
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Emergency medicine physicians typically receive extensive training in management of patients exposed to WMD, as well as other chemical, biologic, or radiation-induced disasters.
The SPET scans allowed the researchers to check how the system was working by injecting a radiation-emitting chemical which seeks out working NMDA receptors.
Now, cancer-related risk estimates are "no more than a rough guesstimate, " David Brenner, an expert on radiation-induced cancer at Columbia University, said in an email.
I'm looking outside now and that's electromagnetic radiation - visible light.
The responsible section of the FDA, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, routinely monitors the safety of a vast array of radiation-emitting products.
It may be difficult to decide whether those patients should receive chemotherapy or Erbitux with radiation--especially since the chemotherapy may be cheaper, but with more severe side effects.
However, some radiation-induced cancer occurs after a much shorter period.
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About half of children who go to the ER with head injuries get this radiation-heavy scan, and clinical observation first could help some who don't really need a CT avoid it.
For example, a study in the journal Radiology in March found that for young men with testicular cancer, the mortality risk from their cancer was three times higher than from radiation-induced cancer.
In fact, while the low-risk patients might not receive any benefit from the test, there is at least some risk from radiation--which is higher for a CT angiogram than a traditional X-ray.
The process is still far from foolproof, however, seeing as how an increase in the microscope's resolution requires an equal boost in radiation -- all of which is fatal to the insects.
This new photogenic moment, released Thursday, comes courtesy of the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope, which detects cosmic microwave background radiation -- the light left over from the Big Bang.
That said the story of the men who volunteered to put their fingers in the leak - some of whom died soon after due to lethal doses of radiation - is compelling.
"Probably the group of centers which were studied in this paper are more sophisticated and more aware of radiation-reduction methods than your typical center that is performing cardiac CT angiography, " he says.
South Korea is using aircraft and ships to collect air samples to analyse for increased radiation - which could give an indication of details about Tuesday's blast, the Associated Press news agency reported.
The first Marine detachment sent to Camp Sendai, which lies just over 80 kilometers 50 miles north of the radiation-spewing power plants, came unprepared for the snowstorms, lacking standard-issue winter parkas and insulated boots.
It was also a big week for lighting news as we learned that compact fluorescent light bulbs emit potentially harmful UV radiation -- another good reason to make the switch to LEDs.
The Australian research focused on the thermal effects or specific absorption rate (SAR) of radio frequency radiation - a measure of its actual effects on brain tissue, whereas the earlier study simply looked at electromagnetic radiation levels.
Ingestion of the short-lived isotope iodine-131, with its well-known risk of thyroid cancer when absorbed in the thyroid glands of children and young people, was the only major radiation-related health effect of the Chernobyl accident on the public.
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