A Michigan Medicine Dosimetry Code Ready for Widespread Use in Software | Newswise

A Michigan Medicine Dosimetry Code Ready for Widespread Use in Software | Newswise

Newswise — Following FDA clearance, patients receiving radiation treatment for cancer from around the country now benefit from a University of Michigan-developed code that was created over the last two decades. Dose Planning Method for Radiopharmaceutical Therapy, commonly referred to as DPM_RPT, a Monte Carlo code, is now available with GE HealthCare’s MIM Software. Starting…

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American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows

American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows

In the latest release of federal test scores, educators had hoped to see widespread recovery from the learning loss incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, the results, from last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, tell a grim tale, especially in reading: The slide in achievement has only continued. The percentage of eighth graders who…

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Robert McKeown Recognized for a Half Century of Distinguished Service

Robert McKeown Recognized for a Half Century of Distinguished Service

BYLINE: Tamara Dietrich Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA – For nearly half a century, Robert D. “Bob” McKeown has probed nuclear particles and educated rising generations of physicists. Now, the former deputy director for science at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is being honored for his outstanding career contributions with…

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Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare?

Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare?

Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys, each given an infinite amount of time to peck away at a typewriter (stocked with an infinite supply of paper, presumably) eventually produce, by pure chance, the complete works…

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A Michigan Medicine Dosimetry Code Ready for Widespread Use in Software | Newswise

Natural ‘Biopesticide’ Against Malaria Mosquit | Newswise

Newswise — An experimental bacteria-derived biopesticide is highly effective in killing malaria-carrying mosquitoes, including those that have developed resistance to chemical pesticides, according to initial field tests led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The biopesticide is a powder made from the dead cells of a common soil-dwelling bacterial species….

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