Uranium ore stored at the Grand Canyon National Park museum may have exposed visitors and workers to elevated levels of radiation, according to the park’s safety, health and wellness manager. Elston Stephenson told CNN that he began asking officials from the National Park Service and Department of the Interior last summer to warn workers and […]

PL Medical is proud to announce that Rahul Kanwar has graduated the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program. 10,000 Small Businesses is a philanthropic initiative launched by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation in November 2009 that pledges $500 million in various aid to small businesses in the United States and United Kingdom. The

Kevin brings with him over 30 years of experience in the Radiation Safety market as well as a deep understanding of the needs of Dosimetry Service Clients. Kevin is an active member of the AHRA, ASRT and the Florida Chapter of the Health Physics Society. Kevin was a Guest Presenter in April, 2017 at the

An X-ray for knee pain. A CT scan for a head injury. Mammograms every other year, starting at age 50. Over a typical lifetime of radiation exposure from medical tests, a person can start to wonder: How much is too much? There’s no formula for answering that, experts say, in part because the health effects

Throughout the 1950s, the US, the Soviet Union, and others tested thermonuclear weapons in the Earth’s atmosphere. Those tests released vast quantities of radioactive material into the air and triggered fears that the nuclear reactions could ignite deuterium in the oceans, thereby destroying the planet in a catastrophic accidental fireball. Atmospheric tests ended in 1980,

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix are attempting to create a better diagnostic test for radiation exposure that potentially could save thousands of lives. Jerome Lacombe, PhD, an assistant professor and researcher at the UA Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine, recently published a peer-reviewed study in the Public Library

Everyone knows that workers in the active areas of a nuclear power reactor may be exposed to radiation. A group of professionals called health physicists monitors and measures the radiation levels at the workplace. They estimate the radiation doses to members of the public at the fence post of the reactors. They provide special radiation