Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Health News from Medical News Today: Airport Scans Can Cause Anxiety For Those With Implanted Urologic Devices

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Airport Scans Can Cause Anxiety For Those With Implanted Urologic Devices
1 Jun 2011, 5:00 pm

When Christine Bradway, PhD, CRNP, treated a female patient in her office recently, she was asked about a situation she had never before encountered: full-body airport scans and implanted urologic devices. In an editorial in the May-June 2011 issue of Urologic Nursing, Bradway describes a "sign of the times" dilemma. The woman was traveling out of the Philadelphia International Airport, which last year installed full body scanners. She was worried her internal vaginal device that supports her pelvic organs would cause embarrassing attention when she passed through security...


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