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- News Scan (Lithgow Mercury)
Nov 19, 2008 - When money's no object Australian cancer patients want to know about high cost drug treatments, even if they can't afford them, and become distressed if they learn their cancer specialist failed to inform them of all options. - I-75 crash destroyed cancer scanning machine (The Bay City Times)
Nov 19, 2008 - A crash that destroyed a $4 million medical device will delay tests for some mid-Michigan residents waiting to determine if they have cancer or when they can start treatment. The Monday night crash on Interstate 75 reduced the high-cost piece to rubble as the tractor-trailer truck hauling it collided with a pickup. The machine, a positron emission tomography and computer tomography or ... - Raytheon Awarded Contract for Exploratory Research in Nuclear Detection Technology (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Nov 19, 2008 - Raytheon Company was awarded a Department of Homeland Security contract to develop a Stand-Off Warning Against Radiological Materials technology. - Nigeria: Nuclear Security - Nigeria Joins League of 23 (AllAfrica.com)
Nov 19, 2008 - Nigeria has joined the league of 23 countries benefiting from the Global Threat Reduction Search Project developed by the United States Government to train nuclear regulatory agencies in the world to locate, identify and protect abandoned radioactive sources. - Nigeria: Nuclear Security - Nigeria Joins League of 23 (AllAfrica.com)
Nov 19, 2008 - Nigeria has joined the league of 23 countries benefiting from the Global Threat Reduction Search Project developed by the United States Government to train nuclear regulatory agencies in the world to locate, identify and protect abandoned radioactive sources. - Missing radioactive signals in Himalayan ice cores spells danger for part of Asia (New Kerala)
Nov 19, 2008 - Washington, Nov 19 : Glaciologists have been unable to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, which suggests absence of accumulation of ice in the region, that could impact water resources for the people living in that part of Asia. - Gauge containing radioactive material reported missing in Buxton; thought stolen earlier in Ocracoke (Outer Banks Sentinel)
Nov 19, 2008 - The N.C. Radiation Protection Section reported today that a device containing Cobalt 57, a radioactive material, was stolen on Friday from a pickup in Buxton. - Domestic Security Task Force At Metro Park (First Coast News)
Nov 18, 2008 - JACKSONVILLE, FL - When it comes to insuring public safety, manpower, equipment, training and communicatrions are the critical links. - ETSU study brings new light to dangers of indoor tanning (Johnson City Press)
Nov 18, 2008 - The threat of skin cancer doesn’t do much to reduce indoor tanning among young women, but the threat of age spots and other appearance-related side effects appears to be a big motivator. - Pushing nukes at the NRC (San Antonio Current)
Nov 18, 2008 - The day before Hurricane Ike roared into Galveston Island and pressed deep into the Houston Ship Channel, a surge in internet search traffic googling “STNP” washed into my humble enviro blog. “So,” a smaller, less-charitable part of myself exhaled as I charted the numbers, “now they’re worried.”