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...give a conclusive answer because they lacked records showing how much radiation patients had received. Last week researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that they have finally overcome this difficulty. Turning to the centralized medical records of Minnesota's Olmsted County, they compared the X-ray dosages of 138 people who developed leukemia between the years 1955 and 1974 and those of 276 other people who had received about the same amount of radiation during routine checkups and minor treatment. The team's finding, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine: medical X rays...
...department plans to purchase an X-ray defractometer for Holm's experiments, Donald J. Ciappenelli, professor of Chemistry, said recently...
...glare down on the double 12-ft.-high fences. To gain entry, visitors must have proper credentials bearing their photographs and an authorization code. New York State troopers guard the road leading to the village administration building, where more policemen watch over a pair of airport metal detectors and X-ray machines. Specially trained dogs even sniff the luggage of arriving athletes for bombs. Says Britain's Paul Gibbins, a competitor in the biathlon (which combines riflery and cross-country skiing): "Sad to say, but in these times, a prison for Olympic athletes is a good idea...
...snow, the Yuba-Feather Health Center held its first open house. Furniture in the waiting room was pushed back for dancing. Hill people arrived from lumbering outposts, such as Shenanigan Flats, Timbuctoo, Challenge and Strawberry Valley. Carrying plastic wine glasses, they poked their heads into the X-ray area, the pharmacy and the psychologist's quarters. They wandered through the cook's shack, now transformed into a dentist's office. And they studied twinkling, gyrating machines in the laboratory, formerly a fire fighters' shower room...
...film products. A twelve-exposure cassette of Kodacolor II, for example, went from $1.86 to $2.15, and a 36-picture roll of Kodachrome slides jumped from $4.40 to $5.29. The steepest increases were for graphic arts films and photo typesetting paper used by newspapers. Du Pont, a manufacturer of X-ray and industrial films, has raised its prices by as much as 80% in the past year. Polaroid boosted prices 6% earlier this month and said it was considering further increases. Polaroid is fortunate because its instant film uses less silver than other companies' conventional film products...