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05.5.10
CT makers tackling dosage woes
The recent revelations about patients receiving unnecessary doses of radiation offer a sobering reminder. The very ingredient responsible for the medical miracles made commonplace by diagnostic and therapeutic imaging must be carefully managed, monitored, tracked and double-checked…
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03.9.10
Witnesses Tell House Panel Stronger Protections Needed in Medical Radiation Use
Medical imaging procedures, especially computed tomography (CT) scans, can save lives, but oversight of the dosing levels is fragmented at best, leaving patients at serious risk of overexposure, House lawmakers were told at a Feb. 26 hearing…
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03.9.10
Lawmakers Eye Legislation to Curb Overexposure to Medical Radiation
House lawmakers Friday took a closer look at the dangers to patients from radiation used in medical procedures, citing cases of overexposure that had devastating consequences and calling for improved safeguards…
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03.9.10
At Hearing on Radiation, Calls for Better Oversight
A dozen witnesses, including representatives of virtually all of the leading professional groups in medical radiation, told a House subcommittee during a hearing Friday that more needed to be done to make sure that radiation continues to help, not harm, patients…
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03.9.10
Medical scan makers to install radiation controls
A medical imaging trade group said Thursday that manufacturers of CT scanners will begin installing safety controls to prevent patients from receiving excessive radiation. The dosing checks, which will begin rolling out before the end of the year, will alert machine operators whenever the machine’s settings exceed recommended levels…
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03.9.10
Makers pledge to add safeguards to CT scanners
An industry group representing the top five manufacturers of CT equipment said on Thursday the companies will add new safeguards to their machines to help prevent patients from being exposed to too much radiation.
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03.9.10
Device Cos Unveil System To Avoid Overexposing Patients To Radiation
Medical-imaging makers have created a new system to protect patient exposure to radiation in response to accidental overdoses and amid concerns from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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02.24.10
The Big Mammo Mess
Robin Hall Guadagnini wasn’t supposed to have a mammogram the year she turned 41. She’s had one the year before, and her insurance covered routine mammograms only once every other year…
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02.24.10
Mammogram Plus MRI Cost-Effective in High-Risk Women
Annual screening with both mammography and MRI appears to be a cost-effective way to improve life expectancy in women at high risk for breast cancer, U.S. researchers say.
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02.24.10
Newer heart CTs deliver far less radiation-US study
Newer CT technology that can capture an image of a beating heart in a single beat may offer one way of reducing a patient’s exposure to excess radiation, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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