Title: Americans getting too much radiation from medical tests
Url: http://www.newsday.com/news/health/americans-getting-too-much-radiati...
Creator: Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times
Dr. Reza Fazel (Medical Doctor)
Publisher: Newsday.com
Language: English
Date Record Checked: 2010-03-03 00:00:00 (W3C-DTF)
Description: Americans may be receiving too much radiation from medical tests whose value has not been proven, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine.. More than two-thirds of Americans underwent at least one such imaging procedure in the three years covered by the study, reported Dr. Reza Fazel and colleagues at Emory University School of Medicine.. The two biggest contributors to the radiation exposure are CT scans, which use a series of X-rays to produce a three-dimensional image of the body, and heart perfusion scanning to measure blood flow through the arteries leading to the heart..
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Date Of Record Creation: 2010-03-06 07:59:08 (W3C-DTF)
Date Of Record Release: 2010-03-06 08:04:28 (W3C-DTF)
Date Last Modified: 2010-03-06 08:04:28 (W3C-DTF)
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