News tagged with radium
Radium 'likely cause' of Tokyo radiation hotspot
Japanese authorities believe radium was to blame for a radiation hotspot at a Tokyo supermarket, a local city office said on Tuesday, in another scare for a nation still on edge over Fukushima.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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First Phase III trial of an alpha-pharmaceutical
Until recently, options for patients with bone metastases from advanced prostate cancer have been very limited. But now the first Phase III study of an alpha-pharmaceutical in these patients has shown that it can prolong ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Ensuring the safety of radiation therapy
Radiation oncologists took a blow in a series of front-page newspaper stories published last year on injuries that occurred nationwide in the delivery of radiation treatment. Radiation oncologists at North Shore-LIJ Health ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Jordan's fossil water source has high radiation levels
Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe for drinking water in a new study by an international ...
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Analysis shows exposure to ash from TVA spill could have 'severe health implications'
(PhysOrg.com) -- A report by Duke University scientists who analyzed water and ash samples from last month’s coal sludge spill in eastern Tennessee concludes that “exposure to radium- and arsenic-containing ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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