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 ...
Chest radiographs should not be given as routine to patients entering coronary care units, heart specialists have concluded. Specialists at one heart hospital in Birmingham, England have already s ...
For the few people in any doubt, the risks of smoking carry on into later life and quitting smoking will help you to live longer no matter when you give up. ...
Most of us who have delayed childbearing live with the spectre of Down's Syndrome and many congenital deformities automatically increasing with our advancing age, particularly for first birth. In ...
Despite the known cumulative risks to you and your unborn children, this most routine medical test is still being overused on nearly every part of your body. ...
The average annual exposure to radiation among the British public has risen over the past year - and it's all down to medical screening. So many people in the UK have been receiving x-rays and CT (computed tomography) scans that they've pushed up...
Hospitals are zapping X-ray patients with levels higher than necessary. ...
Q:When did research first point out the dangers of x-rays during pregnancy and links with leukemia? ...
