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StemRad is an Israeli-American start-up company that develops and manufactures personal protective equipment (PPE) against ionizing radiation.Its first product was the 360 Gamma, a device that protects the user's pelvic bone marrow from gamma radiation. [1]
Smock of British military NBC suit in Disruptive Pattern Material. Overboots to be worn over combat boots. NBC stands for nuclear, biological, and chemical. [1] It is a term used in the armed forces and in health and safety, mostly in the context of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) clean-up in overseas conflict or protection of emergency services during the response to terrorism, though there ...
The Therac-25 was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which some patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. [ 2 ] : 425 Because of concurrent programming errors (also known as race conditions), it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or ...
Unprotected experiments in the U.S. in 1896 with an early X-ray tube (Crookes tube), when the dangers of radiation were largely unknown.[1]The history of radiation protection begins at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with the realization that ionizing radiation from natural and artificial sources can have harmful effects on living organisms.
Radiation protection reports of the European Union; Radiobiology; Radiological protection of patients; Radioresistance; Society for Radiological Protection – The principal UK body concerned with promoting the science and practice of radiation protection. It is the UK national affiliated body to IRPA
What if firefighters are being killed by their own turnout gear? - the personal protective equipment they wear on the job? Special report: Cancer-stricken Worcester firefighter and his wife ...
Radiation emitted by radioisotopes or radiation generators is utilized in therapy for cancer or benign lesions and also in interventional procedures using fluoroscopy. There has been a tremendous increase in the use of ionizing radiation in medicine during recent decades and health professionals and patients are concerned about the harmful ...
A firefighters union and a chiefs association advise firefighters to wear protective gear less often, ... Cancer caused 61% of line-of-duty deaths among career firefighters from January 2002 to ...