Tag: X-ray
Finland recommends stopping the use of radiation shields in X-ray examinations
During the last few decades, the radiation doses received by patients during X-ray procedures have decreased considerably. This reduction is due to advances in imaging technology and a better understanding of the effects and risks of radiation. Modern x-ray equipment requires significantly less radiation to produce diagnostic images, reducing the relative benefit of radiation shielding.…
More care at home and AI that helps doctors – hear about the future of care
Listen to Vetenskapsradion In depth directly in SR Play – today about the care of the future. It's about remote robotic surgeries, AI that analyzes X-ray images and more care at home. When researchers look for trends in the care of the future, they see technical solutions that provide both more efficient and more equal…
Defense forces assisting in the construction of a temporary border fence in Kuhmo
The customs authorities have brought an X-ray car to the Vartius border station, where the majority of asylum seekers now arrive.
Long covid linked to air pollution exposure in young adults – new study
Although covid-19 infections are usually less severe in young adults, this does not mean that they are not still at risk of complications from covid-19. For example around one in 25 adults over 16 have reported suffering from prolonged covid-19 symptoms after their first infection. For some, these symptoms lasted almost two years. While we…
China uses courts to capture Western technology
Washington [US]Feb 27 (ANI): Amid growing conflict with the US, China is using its courts and patent panels to undermine foreign intellectual property rights and help Chinese companies, particularly in technology, pharmaceuticals and rare earths, US and EU officials say, The Wall Street Journal reported . China is leaning on a range of levers to…
Patient injury reports were made to the emergency room for fractures that had gone unnoticed
Dissertation submitted by the Master of Health Sciences Tarja Tarkiainen To the Faculty of Medicine of the Graduate School of the University of Oulu, investigated the adverse events, adverse events and near misses that occurred in the medical imaging units and their underlying causes. One dataset used in the study was the patient injury reports…
The murders in Örebro – George was shot dead at preschool
In the summer of 2022, a wave of murder sweeps over Örebro. 19-year-old George Chamoun and his 20-year-old friend are two of the victims. On the same evening as the shooting, George’s older brother Simon Chamoun works as a nurse at Örebro’s hospital. The conversation inside the X-ray department sends him running to the emergency…
The study finds that spinal fractures in the elderly can be avoided with a simple X-ray method
Gothenburg [Sweden], June 28 (ANI): According to a recent study from the University of Gothenburg revealed that vertebral compression fractures are very common among older people, and those with such fractures are at greater risk of suffering new ones. The research also established that an X-ray method should be introduced as a routine procedure in…
Scientists are developing a new enzyme to beat plastic waste
The results of the study were published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research was led jointly by a professor Jen DuBoisMontana State University, and Professor John McGeehan From the University of Portsmouth, who in 2018 led an international team that designed a natural enzyme that could break down PET…
The University of Helsinki and ASM International NV are expanding their cooperation in atomic layer coating to the new ALD Center of Excellence
The new five-year agreement significantly expands the cooperation that began in 2004 and is now 23 years old. ASM will more than double this agreement as part of the university’s current funding. The accelerator laboratory of the Department of Physics receives part of the funding. ASM is also planning to expand the team of its…
Science Round-Up: How Space Technology Could Help Detect Breast Cancer
It may not be obvious what connects a violent collision between two distant neutron stars far out in the universe and a small lump of cancer in a human’s breast. But Irfan Kuvvetli, senior researcher at DTU Space, has invented something that could help discover them both. He argues that it makes it easier to…
Satellite losses show threats to solar storms for Tech
Washington – As if we did not have enough to worry about: Some scientists warn of the inevitable catastrophic effects on modern life from a super-big solar storm. These eruptions from the sun, which emit energy in the form of magnetic fields and billions of tons of plasma gas, known as “flares”, are unpredictable and…
Solar storms have been shown to pose major risks to technology
Washington – As if we did not have enough to worry about: Some scientists warn of the inevitable catastrophic effects on modern life from a super-big solar storm. These eruptions from the sun, which emit energy in the form of magnetic fields and billions of tons of plasma gas, known as “flares”, are unpredictable and…
Studies show how Mars lost its ocean
Researchers at the University of Tokyo re-created the conditions expected in the core of Mars billions of years ago and found that the behavior of the molten metal present was likely to cause a short magnetic field that was to be lost. Whether it’s from the scientific literature or the fact that we can see…
Innovative X-ray shows COVID-19 can cause vascular damage to the heart: A study
Lung tissue damage has been the subject of research in this area for some time and has now been thoroughly investigated. The current study confirmed cardiac involvement in COVID-19 at the microscopic level for the first time by imaging and analyzing damaged tissue in three dimensions. The researchers photographed the tissue architecture in high resolution…
NASA is launching a new mission to explore the most dramatic objects in the universe
The IXPE Observatory, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, is NASA’s first mission to measure the polarization of X-rays from the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe — supernova remnants, supermassive black holes, and dozens of other high-energy ones. objects. “IXPE represents the second exceptional first,” he said Thomas Zurbuchen, Deputy Head…
Summary of Science: Has religious satire shaped our culture more than religion itself?
What about the holy war, the bloody battles among Christians, and the general accounts of medieval barbarism, it is common to perceive the Middle Ages as more pious than the atheist modern era. But that may not be the case. In a new paper, ‘The Gospel of Deviance’, satire researcher Dennis Meyhoff Brink from the…
Ant hedgehogs are equipped for survival
In addition, the anteater has a penis so mysterious that science does not yet fully understand it, and which with its four heads resembles something from another world. Researchers from the University of Melbourne have sought to solve the mystery in collaboration with the Australian Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary. Up to 50 injured anteaters arrive here…
Strike postpones thousands of surgeries and treatments
Due to the nurses’ strike, a large number of Danes have had their appointments at the country’s hospitals postponed. More than 16,500 treatments and operations in Denmark have so far been postponed or are expected to be. The regions calculate their deferrals in different ways, and therefore the figures are not necessarily comparable. In the…
New measures must eradicate long waiting times in the breast cancer area
It writes Berlingske. An international recruitment effort is also being launched, where an attempt will be made to get radiologists from Southern Europe to work in Copenhagen, where there is a shortage of them. And across the country, a comprehensive effort is being made to try to get more staff, says also Minister of Health…
25 must-see masterpieces from Tretyakov Gallery
A full day is not enough to cover the endless halls of the two large buildings of Moscow’s most famous museum. We have chosen the 25 best truly illicit gems. It was the dream of the gallery’s creator, Pavel Tretyakov, to create a large public museum of Russian art, in contrast to the nobles before…
They died after acupuncture treatment – now the case is being taken up in the Court of Appeal
A man in his 60s died according to the indictment after an acupuncture treatment at a company in the county, where the woman who performed the treatment allegedly stabbed the man with acupuncture needles in his chest, which is said to have caused the man to bleed in the pericardium. The man suffered from cancer,…
Children with cancer are offered DNA analysis
All children in Sweden who suffer from cancer must now be offered DNA analysis so that treatments can be tailored. Over three hundred children in Sweden suffer from cancer every year. This year, a project starts where everyone will be offered to have their entire genome analyzed to see exactly which treatment suits them or…
Drama when Frida Karlsson took World Cup bronze
Frida Karlsson took the World Cup bronze in the three-mile, her third medal in the World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf. The race was very dramatic where Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson and Heidi Weng collided with each other on a downhill with a mile left to go. In the case, Frida Karlsson injured her arm and…
Lack of staff in the X-ray department – pictures are sent abroad
There is a great shortage of specialists and chief physicians in the X-ray department at Östersund Hospital and sometimes there is too much work pressure at large work peaks during the biggest tourist weeks. This means that the pictures can be sent to doctors in Australia for examination at night and during the day they…
Göran received other people’s calls for X-rays
When Göran from Frillesås received his expected call for an X-ray, two other people’s calls were also in the same envelope. “This must never happen, you can question how they process personal data when they send paper wildly,” says Göran, who is actually called something else. He says that he has made several attempts to…
From Iceland – Sausages, gossip, cellulite and Dolly Parton: A perfect day for Snjólaugar Lúðvíksdóttir
Snjólaug Lúðvíksdóttir is a comedian and screenwriter. For foreigners, its name is pronounced Snow-Leg, although it means directly in Snow-Pool. I want to start by saying that this article will make it sound like I’m really into it, but my Perfect Day is usually ordering pizza from my couch and watching Netflix. It would still…