Using low doses of radiation to treat the deadly inflammation of pneumonia, particularly viral pneumonia like that caused by COVID-19, was used during the first half of the 20 th century with good ...

Exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation is associated with a modestly increased excess risk of heart disease, finds an analysis of the latest evidence published by The BMJ today. The researchers ...

A single dose of radiation administered during surgery is as effective for patients with early forms of breast cancer as standard radiation therapy that can take as long as six weeks, according to new ...

A recently published study found that targeted radiation delivered before surgery can eradicate certain early-stage ...

Human medical trials have begun on severely ill COVID-19 patients using low-doses of radiation. The first results on a very small group were published this week in a non-peer-reviewed journal that ...

Medical imaging is as central to patient care as are labs or pathology, and concern for radiation safety is as old as the field itself. These concerns have generated multiple mandates related to dose ...

Federal organizations and healthcare providers are growing increasingly concerned about the harmful effects of cumulative radiation doses. In August, The Joint Commission released a Sentinel Event ...

Patients with high-risk prostate cancer who had a higher dose of radiation plus long-term androgen deprivation therapy tended to live longer than those who had a lower dose. A higher dose of radiation ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

A single course of low-dose radiation therapy may provide a safe and effective alternative treatment option for people with painful knee osteoarthritis according to a new randomized, ...

Osteoarthritis and plantar fasciitis are two very different conditions that have different causes and risk factors. But they also have one thing in common — they can cause debilitating pain that can ...