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TORONTO, July 9, 2012 /CNW/ - His Excellency, the Rt. Hon. David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, has awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal to Dr Fergal Nolan, President of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada. The award recognizes Dr Nolan's exceptional contribution to protecting Canadians from excessive exposure to radiation in workplaces and communities across Canada. The award will be presented today at the Ontario Legislature by the Hon. David Onley,...
With scorching heat affecting much of the United States in recent weeks, sunburn undoubtedly has become a concern to many, and now researchers say that they have discovered the biological mechanism that causes the painful, reddish response to excessive UV radiation exposure. As it turns out, sunburn is the result of RNA damage to skin cells, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, Rutgers University, and the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center...
LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedQIA has developed a bone scan analysis package within our 510 (k) - cleared Imaging Biomarker Information System (IBIS). It includes a new automated technique for detecting lesions on bone scans that involves intensity normalization, thresholding, and connected-component analysis. The system calculates quantitative metrics for assessing disease burden and treatment response including total Bone Scan Lesion Area (BSLA), Bone Scan Lesion...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Burlington Medical Supplies, a radiation protection and x-ray medical supply company, now offers no fog lenses. These lead glasses are the latest in technology for healthcare professionals who work in scatter radiation environments, such as doctors, nurses and technologists. These glasses are made with hi-lite transmission leaded glass that is treated with a unique thermally cured coating. They can be cleaned with any standard lens...
Advances in diagnostic imaging have benefited children with otolaryngologic disease, allowing shorter hospital stays, fewer invasive procedures, more targeted surgical procedures, and earlier and more precise diagnoses. However, despite improved technology, concerns about exposure of children to ionizing radiation have recently come to the forefront, according to a commentary in the July 2012 issue of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery. Children have more radiosensitive body tissues...
DALLAS, June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Radiotherapy Devices Market By Technology, Applications & Products (2011 - 2016)", published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities in Americas, Europe, Asia, and Rest of the World including Japan. Browse market more than 100 data tables spread through 311 pages and in-depth TOC of "Radiotherapy Devices Market By Technology,...
A recent Phase I/II clinical trial has shown that a new combination of radiation therapies developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center escalates radiation doses to safely and effectively treat prostate cancer and lower the risk of recurrence with minimal radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue and organs. Recently published in the journal Brachytherapy, a novel treatment protocol designed by Michael Hagan, M.D., Ph.D., radiation oncologist at VCU Massey Cancer...
ATLANTA, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elekta swept the top three rankings in the KLAS research firm's recently released 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Medical Equipment & Infrastructure report*. Elekta's Leksell Gamma Knife® Perfexion(TM) radiosurgery system and Elekta Synergy® and Elekta Infinity(TM) radiation therapy systems earned the #1, #2 and #3 rankings, respectively, out of eight possible rankings. In the report, Perfexion scored 93.9 out of 100, and 100 percent of...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), the premier radiation oncology company, announced today that doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Francisco, Calif. are now treating cancer patients with the TomoTherapy® System, the only radiation therapy system specifically designed for integrated, daily, 3D image-guided, intensity modulated radiation...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Accuray Incorporated (Nasdaq: ARAY), the premier radiation oncology company, announced today the signing of a multi-year master research and collaboration agreement with Erasmus Medical Center (MC), a leading research center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the largest of the eight university medical centers in the country. Accuray and Erasmus MC will partner on cutting-edge research in radiation oncology with the goal of advancing...
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Nuclear fallout, or just simply fallout, known also as Black Rain, is the residual radioactive material that is propelled into the upper atmosphere after a nuclear black or a nuclear reaction that is conducted in an unshielded facility. It is so called because it "fall out" of the sky after the explosion and the shock wave have passed. It most commonly refers to the radioactive dust and ash that is created when a nuclear weapon explodes, but such dust can also come from a damaged nuclear...
