Scans of Pregnant Women on the Rise - NYTimes.com
Should you get scanned when you are pregnant? (Susan Farley for The New York Times)
Pregnant women are exposed to twice the amount of radiation from medical scans as they were a decade ago, a new study has found.
Although the total amount of radiation exposure to pregnant women is still relatively low, the doubling effect in just a decade is the latest indicator that medical scans are exposing patients to record amounts of ionizing radiation, a type of radiation that can alter cells and lead to health risks, including cancer.
Researchers from Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School looked at the [...]
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