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Christina Bennett
- Location:
- Garden City, ID
- Gender:
- Female
- Service:
- RN-ADN (RN with Associate's degree)
- Status:
- Active Nurse
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"Many MRI patients are injected with a GE dye to enhance images. If they have weak kidneys, they might develop a rare and sometimes fatal disease Editor's Note: Gerth is a reporter with ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization in New York. For more on GE and MRI drugs, go to http://www.propublica.org. In May 2006 medical regulators in Denmark issued a warning ..." |
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" Only after a patient complained in August about losing some hair following a CT scan did Cedars-Sinai Medical Center realize more than 200 people had been exposed to excessive radiation from diagnostic tests performed there in the last year and a half. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where more than 200 patients were exposed patients to excess radiation during ..." |
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"Tinkering with a complicated piece of machinery's default settings can be risky. Consider the situation at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. The plan was to improve stroke diagnoses, but adjustments to the CT scanner's settings resulted in more than 200 radiation overdoses. A hospital spokesman said about 40 percent of the patients lost patches of hair as a result. Hospital officials said ..." |
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"The oral contraceptives Yaz and Yasmin are the top-selling pharmaceutical line for Bayer HealthCare, largely as a result of marketing that presents them as much more than mere pregnancy prevention. Yaz, in particular, the top-selling birth control pill in the United States, owes much of its popularity to multimillion-dollar ad campaigns that have promoted the drug as a quality-of-life treatment to ..." |
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"I'm still skeptical on the whole issue. :) " |


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