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 research showed that medical imaging tests [...]

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 Health (NIH) Clinical Center [...]

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 calcitriol, the active form of [...]

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 researchers, as solid tumors adapt the [...]