What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe National Radiological Protection Board has sounded a warning about magnetic resonance imaging, the sensitive x-ray technique that produces detailed cross sectional images of the body's soft ti ...
Various do-it-yourself meters can be purchased or hired:
* EMF Professional Electric and Magnetic Field meter can be rented for £25/week (www.healthy-house.co.uk)
* Powerwatch sells or hires out meters which can monitor your electrical and microwave
Here is a list of the most common x-rays. It includes the average percentage of particular types make up of all x-rays ie, dental x-rays account for one quarter of all x-rays done. It also shows ...
The first concrete evidence has linked exposure to low levels of radiation and a risk of developing leukaemia nearly twice that previously estimated. ...
Q Since the concerns about the safety of computer VDUs [video display units] some 10 years ago, has there been more recent research that continues to voice health worries, or have new developments made VDUs less hazardous?
Reader's Corner
Is there a safe doses of radiation for humans? Experts say they simply don't know. ...
A microwave oven uses a device called a magnetron tube, which causes an electron beam to oscillate at very high frequencies, producing microwave (MW) radiation. Domestic and commercial units use a ...
Mobile phones are safe or at least that's what the industry would like you to believe. However, a number of new research projects around the world are coming up with disturbing results every possi ...
Employers will soon be obliged to protect staff from illnesses associated with working long hours on computers, under new proposals adopted recently by the Health and Safety Commission. ...
