High School Student Builds a Cheap 75,000 Volt Portable X-Ray Machine

Source: Wonder How To

What were you doing with your spare time in high school? Playing sports? Video gaming? Surfing the Web? Building portable x-ray machines? Okay, that last one might not be every teen's hobby, but one 18-year-old spent ...
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Senator Collins' Provision to Study Possible Airport Scanner Health Effects Included in Appropriations Bill

Source: AirportBusiness.com

The office of Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: The Department of Homeland Security must commission an independent study of the possible health effects of airport passenger scanning ma ...
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How Do Radiation Treatments for Cancer Work?

Source: MyHealthNewsDaily.com

"The Healthy Geezer" answers questions about health and aging in his weekly column. Question: I have a friend who is undergoing radiation treatments for cancer. I was wondering how this works. Doesn't the radiation burn everything it touches? Answ ...
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World Thyroid Day 2012 – How Deepa survived thyroid cancer

Source: Health.India.com

‘Doctor, what do you think is the problem?’ The creases of worry on Deepa’s forehead made me hesitate. I told her about a couple of benign conditions to explain the swelling that had suddenly developed on her throat over the past few weeks. Though the th ...
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Why is the (nano-)dose question so important?

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk Spotlight) A substance might potentially be harmful or even toxic for a biological system, provided that the quantity or the concentration (the "dose") is high enough. The toxic effect (toxicity) increases in case of an increased exposition (o ...
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Fukushima's radiation effects: World experts to assess impacts from Japanese power plant

Source: Science Daily

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) Pre-eminent world experts on the effects of atomic radiation agree today to start an assessment of the radiological impact of the events at the TEPCO (Fukushima-Daiichi) nuclear power plant fol ...
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Superior Biotechnology Leads to Superior Drugs

Source: The Daily Reckoning

05/23/12 We sometimes hear about diminishing returns in cancer research and development in the big pharmaceutical companies. They tell us, traditional drug discovery techniques have picked most of the low-hanging fruit in the field. Canc ...
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Mobile towers don't cause cancer: COAI

Source: The Mobile Indian

Radiation from cell phone towers is not hazardous to human beings, according to a new study of Cellular Operation Association of India (COAI), an association of telecom operators of India. COAI started the study last year on elec ...
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Gamma detector promises improved sensitivity

Source: optics.org

Detecting the tell-tale gamma radiation that might indicate the presence of nuclear devices or materials is a pressing concern for anti-terrorism efforts, and technology to do so is now considered vital by secu ...
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