Bonn+ updates and modernizes the landmark 2012 Bonn Call for Action, which helped align countries around patient safety and ...

The Indian Health Service (IHS) operates or contracts with Tribal groups to operate 50 hospitals and approximately 165 primary ambulatory care centers. These facilities contain approximately 275 ...

Medical experts from around the world called for strengthening radiation protection in medicine in the Bonn+ Call for Action outlined at a recent IAEA conference. Bonn+ will build on and modernize the ...

Door-to-balloon times were no higher than when cath lab staff donned traditional lead aprons in this single-center experience ...

The risk to children's health from X-ray radiation is easy to reduce without compromising diagnostic accuracy. Gerhard Alzen and Gabriele Benz-Bohm describe some ways to achieve this in the current ...

It's a standard practice: shuffling into an X-ray imaging room in nothing but socks and a thin gown to be outfitted with a lead apron thought to be for protection. But researchers and hospitals — ...

Your eyesight is very important and is something you should guard jealously. Once lost, it is very difficult, and often impossible, to regain your sight. This is why, if you do any kind of work or ...

In the studies presented, the average operator scatter radiation dose during coronary and PCI procedures using the EggNest Complete System was only 0.16 mRem per case. For context, the annual ...

In a recent article in Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the potential of graphene-based nanocomposites, specifically graphene/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) composites, as effective ...