FDA, Obama digital medical records team at odds over safety oversight

By Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz

Previously undisclosed hospital mixup underscores challenges on road to reform

Excerpts from this story referencing "X-ray":

"… moving towards even tighter regulation of other medical technology such as X-ray machines and drug pumps, "FDA is one agency that we are working with," the …"

Colombia’s black-market coltan tied to drug traffickers, paramilitaries

By Ignacio Gómez G.

Illicit mining in hot spot of Colombia’s Amazon tied to paramilitaries, drug traffickers

Excerpts from this story referencing "X-ray":

"… mid the chaos, the market for mining equipment also took off. For example, X-ray spectrometers that read mineral compositions in ore have become so common …"

OSHA rules on workplace toxics stalled

By Jim Morris

Rules that would reduce worker exposures to two well-known lung hazards, beryllium and silica, are stuck in the regulatory pipeline.

Excerpts from this story referencing "X-ray":

"… rs. He took it even after he grew short of breath and a doctor told him an X-ray showed “something fuzzy” in his lungs. He didn’t want to forego wage …"

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Corporate dental chains see big profits in adults who can't afford care

By David Heath and Jill Rosenbaum

How corporate dentistry mines profits from patients short on cash.

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"… en near fast-food restaurants. Posters advertise a free exam and X-rays. Many of their new patients walk in the door without an appointment. Aspe …"

"… to an Aspen Dental office after seeing one of its commercials. Kelce was X-rayed and sent to a consultation room, where a dental assistant handed her a t …"

"… DC prosthodontist who specializes in replacing teeth, looked at Kelce’s X-rays at the request of CPI and FRONTLINE. He drew a red line along the bone an …"

"… He hadn’t been to a dentist in ten years and came in because of the free X-rays. Two of his teeth were abscessed, an infection that can spread and i …"

The business behind dental treatment for America’s poorest kids

By David Heath and Jill Rosenbaum

Joint investigation with PBS FRONTLINE finds pressure to meet production goals may have compromised treatment of poor young patients.

Excerpts from this story referencing "X-ray":

"… h crown. That’s when the state identified problems at Kool Smiles. "The X-rays didn't show a need for these kinds of services," said Donna Balaski, head …"

"… wanted to put a crown on it." They also started reviewing Kool Smiles’s X-rays taken after the treatments and found problems that Balaski called “atro …"

"… eft untreated under a crown and nerves left exposed. The state showed the X-rays to Kool Smiles at a meeting in August 2010 but Balaski said the company d …"

"… rform fewer procedures per patient, charge less per patient and have lower X-ray costs per patient on average. In Texas and Virginia, it said its analysis …"

Black lung surges back in coal country

By Chris Hamby

Despite decades-old law, cheating, legal loopholes expose miners to deadly dust.

Excerpts from this story referencing "X-ray":

"… mes Foster says as he takes off his shirt and presses his chest against an X-ray machine in the back of an RV in Wharton, W.Va. “Worked 37 years in all k …"

"… station to station: medical history, questionnaire, breathing test, chest X-ray. Foster hopes the tests will provide evidence he can use to submit a claim …"

"… d the return of black lung. For decades, miners have been entitled to free X-rays every five years, and this has helped track the drop in the disease’s p …"

"… he proportion of miners with signs of black lung among those who submitted X-rays dropped from 6.5 percent to 2.1 percent. During the most recent decade, h …"

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Worker suffocations persist as grain storage soars, employers flout safety rules

By Jim Morris and Howard Berkes

The 2010 deaths of a 14-year-old boy and a 19-year-old man in an Illinois grain bin highlight unsafe practices, spotty enforcement.

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"… , it’s personal. Around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 22, 1993, he got a call at the X-ray clinic he managed in Mobile, Ala. His 19-year-old son, Patrick, had suffoc …"

"… the time, Robert Reich, publicly apologized to Ron Hayes. Hayes left the X-ray clinic and became a full-time advocate for families of workers killed on t …"

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