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NewsFDA gets tougher on radiation equipment in wake of overdoses, software flaws
Following an FDA analysis of more than 1,000 reports of errors involving radiotherapy devices that were filed over the past decade, imaging equipment now will have to go through a more rigorous Read more...
Study: Radiation exposure from medical scans up dramatically
A new study concludes that Americans were exposed to seven times more radiation from medical procedures in 2006 than in the early 1980s. The study, from the National Council on Radiation Protection Read more...
Medicare spending varies widely from region to region
A new study concludes that Medicare spending varies widely across regions in the U.S., driven in part by how many hospital beds and high tech imaging equipment is available there, but that more Read more...
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