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2012-05-20
Presidents Obama And Karzai Outline Post-2014 Afghanistan Vision At NATO Summit

Montana Wins States' Backing Over Citizens United Legal Fight

'Life Over War': U.S. Veterans Return Medals At NATO Summit

Euro-Zone Crisis: U.K. Prime Minister Cameron's Warning To Greek Voters

Chen Guangcheng's Family And Friends 'Still At Risk' In China

Nationalist Wins Serb Presidential Run-Off Election

Convicted Lockerbie Bomber, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Dies

Update: Italy Earthquake Kills 5 And Destroys Centuries Of History

President Obama Touts 'Emerging Consensus' On Reviving Europe

Presidents Obama, Hollande Help Tilt G-8's Balance To Stimulus

The Age Of Extreme Oil - 'This Used To Be A Forest?'

Germany Isolated Over Euro Crisis At G-8 Meeting In Chicago

Scientist Who Championed 'Gay Cure' Admits He Was Wrong

At Least 3 Dead As 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Northern Italy

Protesters Set Stockades Ablaze In Busy Montreal Streets

2012-05-19
G-8 Leaders End Summit With Pledge To Keep Greece In Euro Zone

President Obama Takes Republicans To Task Over 'Battle' Against Wall Street Reform

Prosecutors: Three NATO Protesters Planned Attack On President Obama's Campaign Headquarters

1 Girl Killed, 7 Injured In Bomb Attack On Italian School

Syrian Car Bomb Kills Nine, Injures Hundreds

Chen Guangcheng Arrives In U.S. But Fears For Family's Safety

SpaceX Dragon To Launch This Morning At 04:55am EDT

Iran, Syria Among Top Issues For G-8 And NATO

Millennia-Old Microbes Found Alive In Deep Ocean Muck

Chen Guangcheng Says He And Family Are Set To Leave For U.S.

ScienceWonkblog - Radioactive Smuggling

Secrecyblog: NSA Declassifies Secret Document After Publishing It Online

Canada's Harper Government Shuts Down Green Business Advisory Agency

Annular Solar Eclipse Viewable From U.S. On Sunday

Unemployment Update - May 2012


MedicalBlog: Medical Blast From Past - Radium 'Time Capsules' Found
2012-02-02 18:52:33 (15 weeks ago)
Posted By: Intellpuke
Environmental officials in Norristown, Pennsylvania, have found a blast from the medical past - an antique medical kit containing four capsules of radium - dug up at a local waste station.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Thursday that a heap of construction debris set off radiation alarms, which sparked the investigation.

State officials estimated the kit is more than 80 years old, and dates from a time when radium was commonly used in medical treatment.

According to Dr. Howard Markel, a medical historian at the University of Michigan, one of the most common medical uses for radium was to treat cancer, especially ovarian and cervical cancer.

Dr. Howard Kelly, a gynecologist, was among the first physicians in the 1890s to use radium capsules to treat his cancer patients.

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