Just how harmful are diagnostic X-rays?doi:10.1016/S0009-9260(05)80650-6Alan E. HughClinical Radiology
X-rays are a wonderful addition to the world of medicine; they let doctors peer inside a patient without any surgery at all. It's much easier and safer to look at a broken bone using X-rays than it is to open a patient up. But X-rays can also be harmful. In the early days of...
X-rays are a wonderful addition to the world of medicine; they let doctors peer inside a patient without any surgery at all. It's much easier and safer to look at a broken bone using X-rays than it is to open a patient up. But X-rays can also be harmful. In the early days of...
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Plus, shredding the ozone layer allows damaging UV rays to enter the atmosphere resulting in an unprecedented increase in skin cancer cases, to name just a few harmful effects of chemtrails. I have been traveling in Central America, Europe, and the Middle East and noticed these patterns in ...
which includes gamma rays and X-rays, has enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, potentially leading to cellular damage. Non-ionizing radiation, on the other hand, includes radio waves emitted by mobile phones, which are considered less harmful but still raise concerns regardin...
While X-rays are a useful diagnostic tool to allow dentists to examine bones and dental tissues, they also expose patients to potentially harmful radiation. A known carcinogen, X-rays can cause damage to DNA and inhibit the mechanisms cells use to repair themselves. ...
Fear factorThe idea that any amount of ionizing radiation – no matter how tiny – can be harmful to humans has, some say, held back the development of nuclear power. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/fewerton) Ionizing radiation can damage living organisms, that’s clear. But there are big questions...
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X-Rays The other type of electromagnetic radiation I have to discuss is x-rays. X-Rays are produced when electrons dump a large amount of energy into a single photon, thus creating a very high energy light particle. X-Rays are a lot like regular light: they travel in straight lines, ca...