Chest CT Scan Cost and Procedure Information. A CT scan (also called a CAT scan) is a noninvasive, painless medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.
1. Mina, stage name of Anna Maria Mazzini (March 25, 1940, Busto Arsizio, Province of Varese), is an Italian singer. She lives in Switzerland. Although born in a small town of Lombardy, she grew up in Cremona city: where her nickname of Cremona Tiger was given to her by her friend, the journalist Natalia Aspesi.
Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan, in 1956.It was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation 's chemical factory, which continued from 1932 to 1968.inamata disease broke out again in 1965, this time along the banks of the Agano River in Niigata Prefecture. The polluting factory (owned by Showa Denko) employed a chemical process using a mercury catalyst very similar to that used by Chisso in Minamata.