ABCNEWS.com Reports Exclusively On Sophisticated X-Ray Procedures Causing Increased Radiation Burns.News Editors/Health & Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--April 23, 2001 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/ secondopinion010423.html (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink A predefined linkage between one object and another. See hypertext. hyperlink - anchor into your Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the browser's URL address field.) As more doctors use certain specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. X-Ray X-ray Electromagnetic radiation of extremely short wavelength (100 nanometres to 0.001 nanometre) produced by the deceleration of charged particles or the transitions of electrons in atoms. procedures for sophisticated treatment and diagnostic procedures, patients are getting seriously burned. Unfortunately, the medical profession, including the Food and Drug Administration, is only beginning to pay attention to this problem. So says ABCNEWS.com's Nicholas Regush in his latest "Second Opinion" column on the ABCNEWS.com web site. In his articles, Regush gives an investigative journalist's perspective on issues affecting the public's health. Regush calls the increasing problem of radiation burns another example in the continuing saga of medical neglect and ignorance. These radiation burns, he says, can be disfiguring and painful. The above link will take you to the story ABCNEWS.com published Monday. If you choose to quote or reference these materials in any way, you must expressly credit "ABCNEWS.com" and "ABCNEWS.com's Nicholas Regush" as the source. The story is one example of the weekly column that Regush writes for ABCNEWS.com. The column, "Second Opinion," is written in the style of a traditional investigative column with a goal of making the public aware of the unknown, or unpublicized. |
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