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dr. Monte Selvanus
Monday, December 1, 2008
Do You Have Any Health Information...?
Do You Have Any Health Information...?Hi, this article just for share. Do you have any health information? Just write down at list comment after this article. Thank you.
dr. Monte Selvanus
Information: CT Scan For Advance Services
Information: CT Scan For Advance Services
From now on, PKU Muhammadiyah Gombong Hospital has one unit of CT Scan.
What is a CT scan?
A computerized axial tomography scan is an x-ray procedure that combines many x-ray images with the aid of a computer to generate cross-sectional views and, if needed, three-dimensional images of the internal organs and structures of the body. Computerized axial tomography is more commonly known by its abbreviated names, CT scan or CAT scan.
A large donut-shaped x-ray machine takes x-ray images at many different angles around the body. These images are processed by a computer to produce cross-sectional pictures of the body. In each of these pictures the body is seen as an x-ray "slice" of the body, which is recorded on a film. This recorded image is called a tomogram. "Computerized Axial Tomography" refers to the recorded tomogram "sections" at different levels of the body.
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Parent Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Kids' Heart Risks
Parent Smoking During Pregnancy Raises Kids' Heart Risks
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Damage to the arteries of children of smokers can be detected in the early decades of their lives, a new Dutch study finds.
"Smoking in families is harmful for children, including their cardiovascular system, as was found in many other studies," said research leader Dr. Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal, an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the
Uiterwaal and his colleagues reported the finding in the December issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology that they used ultrasound to measure the thickness of the walls of carotid arteries, the major blood vessels to the brain, in 732 young adults, average age 28. Records showed that 29% of the mothers and more than 60% of the fathers smoked during the pregnancies.
Continue...Group: Soft Plastic Toys Are Health Risk
Group: Soft Plastic Toys Are Health Risk
Consumer Group Concerned About Health Risks From Chemical Called Phthalates
By Todd Zwillich
WebMD Health News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
Nov. 25, 2008 -- A consumer watchdog group is urging parents to avoid buying soft plastic toys this holiday season because of a risk that the toys may contain toxic chemicals.
Toys containing the chemicals, called phthalates, can no longer be manufactured or imported after February 2009, according to a product safety law that passed Congress over the summer.
But the group says the Consumer Product Safety Commission is allowing the toy industry to circumvent the law. The agency wrote a letter last week telling manufacturers they can still sell their existing stocks of phthalate-containing toys even after the ban takes effect in February.
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