Stop Offering Healthy People CT Scans, Says British Government Advisory Body

Even though offering CT scanning - using a computed tomography X-ray machine - on healthy individuals might provide some benefits to the person concerned in some cases, it is a practice which has an impact on public health, says COMARE (Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment). [click link for full article]

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Filed under: MRI / PET / Ultrasound on December 20th, 2007