The new coronavirus COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was declared a global
public health emergency by WHO on Jan 30, 2020. Despite massive efforts from various …

During the early part of the past century, hundreds of clinical studies involving more than
37,000 patients were conducted that showed radiotherapy (RT) to be a successful and safe …

The discovery of X-rays and radioactivity in 1895/1896 triggered a flood of studies and
applications of radiation in medicine that continues to this day. They started with imaging …

ALARA is the acronym for “As Low As Reasonably Achievable.” It is a radiation protection
concept borne from the linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis. There are no valid data today …

At the end of the nineteenth century, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays and
Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. In the early years after that, there was a lot of …

Purpose To evaluate the efficacy and safety of lung low-dose radiation therapy (LD-RT) for
pneumonia in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Materials and methods …

All too often the family physician, orthopedic surgeon, dentist or chiropractor is met with
radiophobic concerns about X-ray imaging in the clinical setting. These concerns, however …

The activation or polarization of macrophages to pro-or anti-inflammatory states evolved as
an adaptation to protect against a spectrum of biological threats. Such an adaptation …

The aim of our study was to investigate the changes produced by low-dose radiotherapy
(LDRT) in the circulating levels of the antioxidant enzyme paraoxonase-1 (PON1) and …

Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly spreading bacterial infection causing extensive tissue
necrosis and destruction. Despite appropriate therapy, the disease results in significant …