Lower Radiation Exposure Needs Lower Heart Rate

Going digital can help lower radiation dose

Digital imaging first entered diagnostic x-ray departments with the development of CT scanners in the early 1970s. Although digital techniques matured slowly, major advances have been made over the last decade. It will be interesting to assess how patient doses have also changed during this period. Digital technologies are often divided into two groups: indirect and direct readout systems. The ...

Going digital can help lower radiation dose

Digital imaging first entered diagnostic x-ray departments with the development of CT scanners in the early 1970s. Although digital techniques matured slowly, major advances have been made over the last decade. It will be interesting to assess how patient doses have also changed during this period. Digital technologies are often divided into two groups: indirect and direct readout systems. The ...

Lower sperm counts following prenatal tobacco exposure.

BACKGROUND Recent findings have indicated that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke may cause lower sperm concentration in ejaculates of adult men. To extend the research on this hypothesis we investigated the dose-dependency of the association, controlling for other prenatal exposures. METHODS From 1987 to 1996, four separate occupational semen studies were conducted at three centres in Denmar...

Suicide rate lower among boys in Iqaluit.

Legal pot, lower opioid death rate.

An article on the study, " Medical cannabis laws and opioid analgesic overdose mortality in the United States, 1999-2010, " was published in the October 2014 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. In an invited commentary about the study published in the same issue, Marie of Maine, wrote: " The striking implication is that medical marijuana laws, when implemented, may represent a promising approach f...