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They are names that bring illness and disease to mind - but a new Glasgow housing estate is to have its streets named after vaccines, radiography and viruses.

Leandre Archer, from the Society of Radiographers, said the situation was "profoundly depressing", with radiography departments often treating patients at 120% capacity, with waiting lists continually growing.

Hard proof awaits, but metal shards and what appear to be bullet holes in the Eve panel were revealed by radiography.

Her team used X-ray radiography -- similar to medical X-rays that reveal the inside of the body -- to clock the speed of the propagating dislocations through diamond, yielding lessons that should apply to other materials, too.

"The pressure to increase working hours, coupled with low pay, means that many radiography professionals are leaving Northern Ireland - or the profession itself - and they are not being replaced in adequate numbers," she said.