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• A CT Scan and Phlegm

  
  Stronger Than Cancer — Authority: 113
  Mom is getting her CT scan today. And shes sick. Saturday tricked her. It was nice out. She sat outside with her family enjoying the weather and good company. She woke up Sunday coughing and wheezing. She opted not to stay at our place as usual on Monday because she felt that bad. Instead, she stayed last night. She ...
  5 days ago

• Slowly But Surely

  
  Stronger Than Cancer — Authority: 113
  Moms appointment was yesterday. She gained another half a pound and all her blood levels are great. Dr. Dy is ecstatic as we all are. She has a CT scan next week and the results the following week.
  1 week ago

• Fluctuating mixed-type hearing loss associated with synovitis–acne–pustulosis–hyperostosis–osteomyelitis (SAPHO) syndrome

  
  COMD News — Authority: 154
  Synovitis, acne, palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP), hyperostosis, and osteitis (SAPHO) are the characteristic features of SAPHO syndrome. A 53-year-old woman had been treated for PPP for 2 years. She complained of hearing loss in the right ear, and otitis externa was diagnosed. The pure-tone audiogram (PTA) indicated mild ...
  1 week ago

• Why Is A CT Scan So Expensive in the US

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 149
  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As...
  1 week ago

• Monday Morning Rehab: Owen Daniels Likely Lost for the Season

  
  The Hazean — Authority: 521
  Two weeks, two season-ending injuries (potentially). The flood gates have been opened. Fantasy owners might have lost one of this season’s best players at his position yesterday in Houston tight end Owen Daniels. Daniels went down in the first quarter with a knee injury that could be a season-ender. More on that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tumor Size Often Determines How Likely Cancer Will Spread In Lungs

  
  INTACTINFOs BLOG — Authority: 138
  Smaller tumors in lung cancer are less likely to spread into cancer, according to an Archives of Internal medicine study that reported that the earlier the detection, the better chance for successfully treating lung cancer. Early screening usin... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  2 weeks ago

• Tumor Size Often Determines How Likely Cancer Will Spread In Lungs

  
  Businessmusings — Authority: 141
  Smaller tumors in lung cancer are less likely to spread into cancer, according to an Archives of Internal medicine study that reported that the earlier the detection, the better chance for successfully treating lung cancer. Early screening using a 64 slice CT scan provides early detection of lung cancer even when a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stanford scans of mummy featured at “Very postmortem: Mummies and medicine”

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 131
  Image via Wikipedia A 2,500-year-old priest named Irethorrou will be teaching anatomy to all comers in an exhibition beginning Oct. 31. The mummified remains of this onetime inhabitant of a Middle Egyptian city will be on display in his coffin at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, along with a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fine Line Between Rationing And Appropriate Healthcare

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 136
  Rationing: It’s a dirty word.  Some politicians and activists warn of the dangers of a public option that would have the government ration out health care, and point to Europe as a cautionary tale; others claim that care is already being rationed indirectly by a patient’s health insurance plan . Either way, the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scans at LA hospital spewed 8x normal radiation

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 433
  On Oct. 8, the FDA issued an alert recommending hospitals review CT scan radiation levels after dangerous doses were detected at an unnamed hospital. The Los Angeles Times ‘ Alan Zarembo took over from there, finding that serious radiation overdoses at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital had prompted the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Risks of CT Scans

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 443
  These days people go in for whole-body CT (computed tomography) scans to detect hidden diseases as a proactive health measure for normal and healthy people. CT scans can provide images with up to 20 times the detail of ordinary x-rays. A pencil thin beam of X-rays passed through the body produces cross sectional ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  ...screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear. More Articles
  2 weeks ago

• Radiation Exposure Lawsuit Filed Over CT Scans at LA Hospital

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 554
  A California man has of has filed a class action lawsuit against Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital on behalf of himself and 206 other patients who were allegedly exposed to radiation overdoses during CT scans . The radiation exposure lawsuit was filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court in California on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cedar-Sinai Medical Center Gets Hit with Class Action Suit – CT Scanning Radiation Overdose

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  I spent a little time around one of these when I was writing some software to export calcium scores into a customized program I wrote for patient use in follow up and to help drill down and keep track of all the high score patients.  There is regular maintenance required and that is from the engineering side to ...
  3 weeks ago

• CT Scan Machine Gives Radiation Overdoses At Cedar Sinai Hospital

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  As per a report released by Cedar Sinai hospital, almost all the patients who went under the CT Scan machine have been exposed to radiation, that too eight times the normal amount. The CT scan machine that is throwing such huge quantities of radiation was rest in the month February last year. The error during the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tumor Size Often Determines How Likely Cancer Will Spread In Lungs

  
  Businessmusings — Authority: 141
  Smaller tumors in lung cancer are less likely to spread into cancer, according to an Archives of Internal medicine study that reported that the earlier the detection, the better chance for successfully treating lung cancer. Early screening using a 64 slice CT scan provides early detection of lung cancer even when a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Programming Error Gives People 8 Times Correct Radiation over 18 Months [Health]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 894
  In attempt to get better data, a hospital overrode default protocol on a CT scanner over a year ago. Now theyve realized that they made a little mistake and have been giving people eight times the acceptable doses of radiation. The issue only affected the scans of stroke patients so damage was limited to affecting ...
  4 weeks ago

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