This week in medicine

Courtesy The Lancet Blog  Tue, 03/10/2009 - 09:59

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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