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• Physician’s bedside exam ‘more effective than CT scan’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 19 (ANI): A simple exam by an efficient physician can often be more effective than a high-tech CT scan, a new study claims.A Loyola University Health System study has found physicians’ bedside exams did a better job than CT scans in predicting which patients would have to be operated.Researchers ...
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• Exam May Be Better than CT for Predicting Postop Complications (...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  For patients who have undergone cranial surgery, a neurological examination performed at the bedside may be a better way to predict a return trip to the operating room than a CT scan, a single-center study showed.
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• CT scan radiation can cause cancer in patients

  
  Jim S. Adler & Associates - News and Views — Authority: 405
  Health care is supposed to help your health, not hurt it. But recent studies show that CT scans (computed tomography) may inflict much more radiation than previously believed and can cause cancer. In fact, up to 29,000 new cancers may erupt in America each year due to CT scan radiation, says the Archives of Internal ...
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• CT Scan Radiation May Lead to 29,000 Cancers, Researchers Warn

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Radiation doses from computed tomographic (CT) scans are higher than previously thought and vary widely, even among the same types of examinations, two studies showed. Radiation from medical tests is generally measured in units called millisieverts, or mSv. One mSv is equivalent to the estimated dose of background ...
  4 days ago

• CAT Scans Put Patients at Greater Risk of Developing Cancer

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  CT or CAT ScanHaving a CT – or CAT – scan puts patients at far greater risk of developing cancer than previously thought, scientists claim.  The radiation generated by the scans – an increasingly popular diagnostic tool – may trigger the disease in as many as one in 80 patients. This is far higher than the ...
  5 days ago

• CT Scans And Cancer Risk Asserted

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 678
  A new report in the "Archives of Internal Medicine," published Monday, adds to evidence that Americans are overexposed to radiation from diagnostic tests. The research states that CT scans done in 2007 will cause 29,000 cancers and kill nearly 15,000 Americans.
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• CT Scan Radiation May Cause Cancer for 29,000 People Each Year: Study

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 435
  Researchers in two new studies are raising serious concerns about the effects of radiation from CT scans , with some estimating that about 29,000 Americans will develop cancer later in life and 15,000 will die as a result of scans performed in one year. The studies were published on Monday in the Archives of ...
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• CT scan radiation - what are the cancer risks?

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 133
  JAMA / Archives - It’s a question on the minds of many patients getting CT scans, which use X-rays, a type of ionizing radiation: What is my risk of getting cancer from CT scan radiation?Doses of radiation from commonly performed computed tomography (CT) scans vary widely, appear higher than generally believed, and ...
  5 days ago

• Radiation from CT scans linked to cancers, deaths

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 437
  (excerpt from) USA TodayRadiation from CT scans linked to cancers, deathsBy Liz SzaboCT scans [sometimes called Cat Scans] deliver far more radiation than has been believed and may contribute to 29,000 new cancers each year, along with 14,500 deaths, suggest two studies in today’s Archives of Internal Medicine. One ...
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• California Medical Malpractice- Radiation overdoses affected over 270 patients.

  
  JusticeNewsFlash.com | Legal News | Lawyer Press Release — Authority: 436
  Legal News for California Medical Malpractice Attorneys. 1 Alabama hospital and 3 L.A-area hospitals have been noted by the FDA for over-exposing over 270 patients to radiation through CT scans. FDA investigates hospitals that administered excessive radiation through CT scans. Los Angeles, CA—The U.S. Food and ...
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• Bad kind of irony: The thing that detects your cancer might cause it

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 498
  Apparently, a single CT scan – often used to detect cancer in some people – can cause cancer in some people. Get your tinfoil hats on. SOURCE
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• Cancer Patient Takes on Canadian Bureaucracy in Desperate Fight for Life

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  Suzanne Aucoin of St. Catharines, Ontario never imagined that dealing with the Canadian health care bureaucracy would be as tough as battling terminal cancer. Aucoin had to go to the U.S. for treatment initially denied to her. While ill, she then engaged in a prolonged and complicated fight to get access to a ...
  1 week ago

• FDA Identifies More CT Scan Problems with Dangerous Radiation Levels

  
  AboutLawsuits.com — Authority: 435
  The FDA has identified at least 50 more patients who were subjected to potentially dangerous radiation overdoses during CT scans . The revelations are part of an ongoing investigation sparked by reports in October that more than 200 patients at Ceders-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles were subjected to overexposure ...
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• Doctors take out pen cover from nine-year-old’s lungs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Kolkata Dec 7 (IANS) Safiqul Mondal had given up hope that his nine-year-old son will ever be able to lead a normal life after the child accidentally swallowed a pen cover. But doctors of a private hospital here have brought smiles back on Safiqul’s face by removing the ‘foreign element’ stuck in the child’s ...
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• Sightings in the Solar System

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 141
  When we got my fantastic CT scan results, I think I mentioned that we were still waiting for my doctor to get the results of my chest scan.  Well, yesterday she called to confirm that all of the affected (cancerous) lymph nodes between my lungs have indeed either stabilized or shrunk!   Yes, yes! Wonderful, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smart Phones Aid Diagnosis

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  CT scan images sent via an iPhone, using a $19.99 app thats available on iTunes, were clear enough for correct diagnoses to be made in 99% of cases, researchers say.
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• Smartphones may help diagnose acute appendicitis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): Using a handheld device or mobile phone equipped with special software, radiologists can accurately diagnose acute appendicitis from a remote location, according to a new study.Asim F. Choudhri, lead author and fellow physician in the Division of Neuroradiology at Johns Hopkins University, ...
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• Water Can Facilitate In Curing Your Sickness And Bring Your Health Back

  
  Health - Wellness Guide — Authority: 444
  Kangen Water has been helping peoples health for 38 years now ever since Enagic opened it’s doors in 1978. Various life’s have been altering through the power of kangen water. Kangen water is micro-clustered, high alkaline, with active hydrogen and a negative ROP or Redox value of up to -700. It is because of ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 More Patients at Los Angeles Hospital Get CT Radiation Overdose

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 533
  This time it is not Cedars but a hospital in the Glendale, CA area and a lot less patients, but that doesn’t make a lot of difference if you are one of the patients affected.  It looks like a similar software type of issue with reprogramming.  After having written code for a while, one thing you do with code, is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cancer Spots and Parking Spots

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 141
  On the way to the hospital this morning, as we navigated the morning rush hour / rainy day traffic, my husband and I were saying that we would just for once like to leave one of these meetings with some really good news. Just a little luck, that’s all we wanted.  Sometimes it feels like we’ve been so beaten ...
  4 weeks ago

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