Dear AuntMinnie Member,
To paraphrase an old saying, kids ingest the darndest things. Unfortunately, that can be particularly true during the holiday season, according to a new article we're featuring this week in our Pediatric Imaging Digital Community.
Injuries from ingesting holiday ornaments are rare, but they do occasionally occur, according to researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, who have been collecting ornament ingestion cases since 1995.
Few of the cases result in serious injury, but many do require the use of imaging to locate ingested items. Learn more by clicking here, or visit the Pediatric Imaging Digital Community at pediatric.auntminnie.com.
VA apologizes for brachytherapy fiasco
In other news, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has offered an apology for treatment errors that occurred in the brachytherapy unit at a VA hospital in Philadelphia, according to a story in our Radiation Oncology Digital Community.
The apology came as U.S. regulators look into what went wrong at the facility, where a number of patients receiving brachytherapy treatment allegedly received incorrect levels of radiation doses.
At a hearing last week, VA officials said they now believe that fewer patients than previously estimated were affected by the mistakes. But critics believe that the VA is simply moving the goalposts in terms of how it defines a treatment error.
Learn more by clicking here, or visit the community at radiation.auntminnie.com.
