Sunday, June 21, 2009

VA Hospital continues radiation treatments when dose measuring device broken


PHILADELPHIA - A newspaper says a common surgical procedure for the treatment of prostate cancer was botched at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia 79 percent of the time.
The New York Times says a team that performed the procedure using radiation botched it on 92 of 116 occasions over more than six years. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes and Tobacco - hostWink.com - Jelly Belly