Estimation of radiological health risks due to Ra, Th, and K in foods consumed in Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

This study investigates the activity concentration of natural radionuclides in a diverse range of food samples in the Koya district markets food baskets, including both domestic and imported products. The samples cover annual crops (e.g.

Health-related quality of life after posterolateral lumbar arthrodesis in patients seventy-five years of age and older.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort analysis of prospectively collected data.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to report health-related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes in patients 75 years of age and older who underwent one- to two-level instrumented posterolateral lumbar arthrodesis.

Summary Of Background Data: HRQOL measures are increasingly used to measure clinical success after spinal surgery.

Traumatic pediatric pneumorachis: case report and review of the literature.

Study Design: Case report.

Objective: To report on a case of traumatic pneumorachis in a child and to review the existing literature.

Summary Of Background Data: Pneumorachis, the presence of air in the spinal canal, is an extremely rare finding.

Willingness to communicate organ donation intention.

Objective: The study tested an intervention exposing people who planned to donate organs to written information about communicating with family their intention to donate organs.

Design: A pretest posttest double-blind experiment compared participants given written information about communicating with family and basic organ donation information, with participants given written information about only basic organ donation information.

Sample: Participants included 109 adults who had not yet communicated their plans with family.