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Irradiation Defined
The therapeutic application of radiation to a patient to destroy or damage cancer cells. Cancer cells have a tendency to be more easily destroyed than the normal cells in surrounding tissue. Irradiation is a method of treatment for breast cancer patients, often used as an adjunctive therapy to breast-conserving surgery (lumpectomy) to minimize the risk of recurrence.
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TomoTherapy Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for TomoDirect(TM) Radiotherapy Technology
Published August 26, 2008, 1:45 pm, Centre Daily Times
TomoTherapy Incorporated (NASDAQ: TOMO) today announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its TomoDirect(TM) radiation therapy technology. TomoDirect is an innovative new discrete-angle, sliding-beam delivery mode for the Hi-Art(R) treatment system. With this capability, clinicians gain an efficient complement to helical TomoTherapy(SM), one that enables fast treatment planning and ...
TomoTherapy Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for TomoDirect(TM) Radiotherapy Technology
Published August 26, 2008, 1:27 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
MADISON, Wis.----TomoTherapy Incorporated today announced that it has received FDA 510 clearance for its TomoDirect™ radiation therapy technology. TomoDirect is an innovative new discrete-angle, sliding-beam delivery mode for the Hi-Art® treatment system.
FDA Allows Irradiation of Your Vegetables
Published August 26, 2008, 11:51 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it will allow food producers to irradiate spinach and iceberg lettuce to extend shelf life and limit the growth of food-borne pathogens, such as Salmonella and E. coli.
Vitamin D link to multiple sclerosis
Published August 24, 2008, 1:03 pm, The Hindu
Study says it may prevent the condition
Health Highlights: Aug. 23, 2008
Published August 23, 2008, 6:01 am, HealthDay via Yahoo! News
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Study Highlights Link Between Vitamin D And Multiple Sclerosis
Published August 23, 2008, 4:15 am, Medical News Today
Vitamin D, the principal regulator of calcium in the body, may prevent the production of malignant cells such as breast and prostate cancer cells and protect against specific autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis (MS) according to an article by Sylvia Christakos, PhD, of the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School.
Taking stock of a toxic house
Published August 23, 2008, 4:06 am, The Buffalo News
There's no place like home, where you can kick off your shoes, run through the grass and take a dip in your pool. But what happens if your lawn was just treated, your pool is chlorinated and the sunscreen you just slathered on is not paraben free?
Study Highlights Link Between Vitamin D and Multiple Sclerosis
Published August 22, 2008, 12:31 pm, Newswise
Vitamin D, the principal regulator of calcium in the body, may prevent the production of malignant cells such as breast and prostate cancer cells and protect against specific autoimmune disorders including multiple sclerosis.
Want your salad zapped?
Published August 22, 2008, 6:19 am, Chicago Tribune
Feds say irradiation to kill E. coli is OK, but consumers are wary Food safety experts generally say that zapping spinach and iceberg lettuce with a tiny shot of radiation is the best way to prevent deadly outbreaks of E. coli . It's safe, too, they say, and the federal government officially agreed Thursday, allowing irradiation of our leading leafy greens.
FDA approves zapping spinach, lettuce to kill E.coli
Published August 21, 2008, 5:03 pm, Chicago Tribune
Food safety experts generally say that zapping spinach and lettuce with a tiny shot of radiation is the best way to vanquish deadly outbreaks of E.coli. It's safe, too, they say and the federal government officially agreed Thursday, allowing so-called irradiation of our leading leafy greens.
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Wed Aug 27
- Eleven things you may not know about food irradiation: food irridation, safe and desirable
Tue Aug 26
- BW Solar - Solar Irradiation
- FDA Unleashes Mass Irradiation of Spinach, Lettuce and Other Vegetables: The FDA, of course, insists that the levels of irradiation used to kill e.coli will have no effect whatsoever on the nutritional value of the food. This astonishing statement comes from an agency that doesn't believe food has any nutritional value in the first place, so lowering the value to zero by destroying all the phytonutrients does not, in the opinion of the FDA, alter its nutritional value at all. Thus, destroying all the anti-cancer nutrients in a head of broccoli merely brings that broccoli into "complian ce" as a non-functional food, according to the FDA.
Mon Aug 25
- davidgumpert.s quarespace.com - Journal - Get Ready for Pasteurization ...
- Radiated Lettuce, Coming to a Town Near You!: Radiation is not the answer and I am afraid that it will be the least of our worries to come.
Sun Aug 24
- The Facts about Food Irradiation: What is Food Irradiation
Sat Aug 23
- Zap! FDA Allows More Irradiated Food | Healthy and Green Living
- FDA allows food producers to zap spinach, lettuce with radiation to kill food-poisoning germs
- F.D.A. Allows Irradiation of Some Produce - NYTimes.com: The market for irradiated foods is tiny because the government also requires that these foods be labeled as irradiated, labels that scare away most consumers. That is a market solution isn't it?!?
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