The US gets more radiation from scans than any country
(NEWSER) - The top radiation source Americans should be worrying about isn't airport scanners or microwaves—it's medical tests. The US leads the world in the amount of radiation its population gets from medical scans, and the average American's dose has grown more than sixfold in recent decades. Patients are being given far too many imaging tests, warn experts who fear that in a few decades up to 2% of all US cancers may be the result of radiation from CT scans being given now, AP reports. More»
