Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry is a powerful analytical technique. Because of its sensitivity, accuracy, multielement capability, high throughput, rapid analysis times and low detection limits, it able to determine simultaneously long-lived radionuclides at trace ultra-trace levels as well isotope ratios. It has been increasingly applied in the framework rare events experiments li...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, and screening is the best way to make an early diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of screening mammography and related variables in the mammography center of Mousavi Hospital, located in Zanjan, Iran. Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study. Study sample size was 526 women who were selected by...

To evaluate the effectiveness of mass screening for uterine cancer in Japan, we compared the changes in the age-adjusted rates of potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to uterine cancer between 1969 and 1972 to 1973 through 1977 between the high coverage-rate (intensively screened) areas and the comparable control areas. The percent reduction in the average age-adjusted rate of PYLL due to ut...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. screening can reduce the rate of cancer and mortality. the aim of this study is description of screening programs about breast masses with clinical and para clinical examination. methods: this is a descriptive study on 952 women who had volunteered or were referred to tabriz behbood hospital during one-year period. data was collected...

In their article, “Mass Screening for Retrocochlear Disorders: Low-Field (0.2-Tesla) versus High-Field (1.5-T) MR Imaging,” Dr Dubrulle and his associates ask whether low-field-strength open T1-weighted spinecho contrast-enhanced MR images of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) and internal auditory canal (IAC) can be used to effectively diagnose lesions that cause sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL...

Births in Singapore are almost exclusively in hospitals and this is conducive to mass newborn screening. Mass newborn screeningbegan in 1965 for G6PD deficiency and has led to successful eradication of the complicating kernicterus. Screening has also identified the distinct ethnic and sex linked variations in incidence. The predominant molecular abnormality is the Canton variant. Congenital hyp...

In the last decade, universal newborn screening (NBS) has entered a new era of promise and controversy. With the use of tandem mass spectroscopy, states have substantially increased the number of conditions included in mandatory NBS programs.1 This expansion has mostly followed recommendations from an expert panel commissioned by theMaternal and Child Health Bureau, which proposed mandated scre...

Models of modified gravity introduce extra degrees of freedom, which for consistency with the data, should be suppressed at observable scales. In the models that share properties of massive gravity such a suppression is due to nonlinear interactions: An isolated massive astrophysical object creates a halo of a nonzero curvature around it, shielding its vicinity from the influence of the extra d...