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PHILADELPHIA, Penn.--The University of Pennsylvania announced close to $3 million in budget cuts two weeks ago, including the gradual phasing out of the Dental School and the elimination of the baseball and soccer teams...
...disappeared from the Omni amusement complex. Medical examiners have ascertained that Baltazar was strangled by a rope in the same manner that Terry Pue, 15, was killed three weeks earlier. Fibers found with Baltazar's body may provide evidence that links his death with five others. A dental assistant, who said that she had seen a man in a green car near the place where Baltazar's body was discovered late the same day, was hypnotized by the FBI to help her remember the auto's license number...
Chester W. Douglass, associate professor of dental care administration, and a member of the Dental School's research team, said earlier this week that while there are risks to radiology, "you must realize there are also benefits. We are interested in doing research because the risk side has only been realized recently...
Valachovic said that dental radiology allowed early detection of problems that might not be identified otherwise. He added that cavities and other tooth problems can often have serious consequences if not detected early...
...large part of the controversy concerning radiology exists because some influential dental researchers believe radiation at low levels does not cause cancer in those exposed, Valachovi said, adding, "We need to examine huge numbers of people before we can see the effects of low doses...