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Smarter CT scanning of kids would prevent 3,020 cancers each year
Approximately 3,020 cancers could be prevented each year if doctors were more judicious about ordering CT scans for kids, according to a new study. A CT scan is essentially a series of X-rays combined to give physicians a three-dimensional view of a...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Specialization, American Cancer Society, Radiology, Leukemia
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Powerful X-ray reveals archaeopteryx feather's hidden colors
A powerful X-ray machine, that shines a light brighter than the sun, has helped science detectives determine the color of a 150-million-year-old feather that once belonged to an archaeopteryx, an ancient animal that shared traits with both birds and...
Tags: Science and Technology, Paleontology, Fossils, Stanford University, Colleges and Universities
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Goodbye 'nude scanners.' Hello new headache.
There’s no appeasing the paranoid, it seems. The Transportation Security Administration has done away with its controversial “nude scanners,” which took full-body X-rays of passengers to ensure no one would board a plane with hidden...
Tags: Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Transportation Security Administration, Medical Procedures and Tests
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TSA removes 'nude scanners' from airports
The "nude scanners" are gone. The full-body scanners that used X-rays to create what looks like a nude image of passengers have been packed away and removed from airports across the country. The 250 or so machines were removed about two weeks ago,...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Transportation Security Administration, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Interior Policy
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Virtual fossil shows our oldest primate cousin, scientists say
It’s not the missing link between man and apes. But a mouse-sized tarsier that devoured insects in ancient China 55 million years ago could be a long-lost cousin who scampered in the treetops of tropical forests around the time the first primates...
Tags: Science and Technology, Paleontology, Fossils, China, Science
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Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?
It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Medicare, Aetna Inc., Tylenol (drug), Insurance
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Limo that went up in flames carried too many passengers, CHP says
The limousine that became engulfed in flames on the Hayward-San Mateo Bridge was authorized to transport eight passengers but was carrying nine, the California Highway Patrol said Monday. The 1999 Lincoln Town Car is regulated by the state Public...
Tags: Philippines, Highway Transportation, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Why are prices for medical care such a mystery?
Ted Kamp wanted to make sure his daughter received the medical treatment she needed. That was his first priority. His second was making sure his insurance would cover things and that he'd pay a fair price for any procedures. The fact that this...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Cigna Corporation, Prices, MRI (imaging), Radiology
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X-rays show galactic black hole spinning near speed of light
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Black holes may have given up some secrets of their growth thanks to the sleuthing of two X-ray space telescopes. The findings have solved a long-standing mystery about a supermassive black hole’s spin, finding that some of them can whirl very close...Tags: Astronomy, Science and Technology, Space Programs, Science, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Jennifer Lawrence: Naked on the bottom, uneven on top
Jennifer Lawrence is doing the late night rounds hitting both "Piers Morgan Tonight" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to address her SAG Awards wardrobe malfunction and just about anything but "Silver Linings Playbook." "Your producer made me do two shots of...
Tags: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (tv program), Christian Dior, Steve Jobs, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Medical Procedures and Tests
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‘Young’ black hole is nearby, NASA says; doorway to a new universe?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAsteroid 2012 DA14 is bearing down on Earth, rattling nerves and making sci-fi fans' eyes light up. But the cool ...... -
James Webb Space Telescope squeezing budget, NASA official says
Astronomers may have to brace for a much humbler astrophysics mission following the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018, a NASA official told a ballroom full of astronomers Tuesday. Under current budget constraints and with future...
Tags: Astronomy, Science and Technology, NASA, Space Programs, Electronics
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