The following will appear in the Mar 14 issue of The Lancet :
Radioactive Americans today are exposed to seven times more radiation from diagnostic scans than they were in 1980, according to a report from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
Reasons for the increase are thought to include advancement in technology-eg, the development of finer-slicing CT scans-and the rising number of scans being done in doctors’ offices.
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