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How often do you really need dental X-rays?
Every six months like clockwork, Melissa O'Brien takes her two children, Alexandra and Evan, to the dentist for a cleaning. They're nearly perfect patients — Alexandra, 13, has no cavities, and Evan, 10, has had only one — but O'Brien suspects...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Drugs and Medicines, Harvard University, Dentistry and Dental Health, Surgery
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Woman Accused of Smuggling 5-Pounds of Heroin in Her Stomach
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have arrested a Nigerian woman for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly 5-pounds of heroin in her stomach. Bola Adebisi, 52, arrived at Dulles Airport from Nigeria on Wednesday. During a...Tags: Organized Crime, Washington, DC, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Heroin
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Baltimore area has high share of high-tech manufacturing jobs
The molten metal pouring from the foundry at Danko Arlington Inc. in Baltimore harks back to the early industrial era. But across the street in one of the company's other buildings, workers operate an X-ray machine, a laser probe and a 3D printer that...Tags: Electronics, Health, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Technology, Companies and Corporations
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Baltimore Co. accepting Medicaid for dental services
Baltimore County's dental clinics can now accept Medicaid, and patients will find better equipment when they visit. The county — which has clinics at the Eastern Family Resource Center in Rosedale and the Liberty Family Resource Center in...Tags: Health, Randallstown, Medicaid, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Insurance
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Things State Government Does: House Panel Argues About The Transportation Security Administration.
Capitol Ideas with John L. MicekCapitol Ideas Intern Mike Macagnone Reports: Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, wants to keep the government out of your private parts — or at least an excess of radiation. A controversial resolution admonishing Congress to further regulate the... -
Latest technology gives Harford firm a 3D view
The days of using two-dimensional X-rays to analyze body armor, troop helmets and projectiles have just been put behind Chesapeake Testing.
That's because Chesapeake, a small company with its own firing ranges and ballistics analysis equipment, has moved...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nikon Corp, Harford County, Weaponry, Heavy Engineering
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Outpatient facility, nurses fined over improper X-ray machine use
Two nurses and Rush SurgiCenter have been fined by a state agency for violating radiation protection regulations after an investigation found that the nurses operated X-ray equipment they were not supposed to use. By Illinois law, radiologic equipment...
Tags: Fines, Electronics, Punishment, Disasters and Accidents, Cancer
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Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures
Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient surgery? A CT scan or antibiotics for chronic sinusitis? In most cases, no. But patients get these commonly used tests and procedures — and many...
Tags: Heart Failure, Colleges and Universities, Cancer, Health Insurance Cost, Physical Conditions
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Study says dental x-rays cause brain tumors
KIAHDo you hate going to the dentist? Now you have a good reason-- past visits to the dreaded driller may give you a brain tumor! A new report by the American Cancer Society in their journal "Cancer" says folks who had regular dentalx-rays in the past are...Tags: Health, Cancer, Dentistry and Dental Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Symptoms
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Tips to help you decide on an urgent care or emergency room
South Florida ParentingIt’s a Saturday afternoon, and your daughter turns an ankle on the soccer field. Or the earache your son has been fighting all week is suddenly worse, and now he has a fever. It’s a predicament almost every parent has found themselves in at...Tags: Broken Bones, Disasters and Accidents, Parenting, Asthma, Radiology
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Pet Corner: Is your pet at risk for bladder stones?
Most people are familiar with kidney stones and probably know someone who has experienced the pain of passing one of these stones. The most painful part is passing the stones from the kidneys through the ureters and into the urinary bladder. Dogs are...
Tags: Genetics, Urinary System, Health, Biology, Science
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