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      7 Ways You’re Exposed to Radiation — When Should You Worry?

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      What’s the truth about radiation risks? Yahoo News assembles a list of radiation exposures that you face, and attempts to separate fact from fiction: 1. Radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster. An earthquake and tsunami has left officials struggling to contain radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. If you...
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      Low Dose Radiation from Medical Imaging Increase Cancer Risk

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      The risk of cancer from medical imaging is widely debated. The need for imaging at times cannot be disputed, the fear is that doctors are not a cautious as they should be given the risk. The argument being that the doses from any one maging are “low”. As medical technology...
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      FDA May Require Safer CT Scans to Reduce Radiation Exposure

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      The Food and Drug Administration is considering new safeguards for CT scanners and other imaging machines to prevent patients from receiving unnecessary radiation exposure. Doctors and patients have become increasingly concerned about the risks of medical radiation, which research shows could cause 29,000 new cancers a year. In December, published...
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      National Institutes of Health Puts Low Dose Radiation on the Radar

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      While there is a lot of controversy about diagnostic medical radiation exposure, very little is known about the real impact on health of the cumulative effects of low dose radiation received from medical diagnostics. In an effort to get some science on the issue, researchers at the National Institutes of...
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      Does Vitamin D Protect Against Radiation?

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      Radiological health expert Daniel Hayes, Ph.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suggests that a form of vitamin D could be one of our body’s main protections against damage from low levels of radiation. Writing in the International Journal of Low Radiation, Hayes explains that...
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      Radiation and Chemotherapy Strengthen Tumor Cells not Killed

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      The saying goes that if it doesn’t kill yu, it makes you stronger. Well apparently that goes for cancer too, according to a new study from Duke University. Published in Nature Reviews Cancer It is generally known that cancer adapt body functions and chemistry to survive and grow.. According to...
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