The federal Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would take steps to more stringently regulate three of the most potent forms of medical radiation, including increasingly popular CT scans, some of which deliver the radiation equivalent of 400 chest X-rays.
With the announcement, the F.D.A. puts its regulatory muscle behind a growing movement to make life-saving medical radiation — both diagnostic and therapeutic — safer. To see the complete article: Click Here.
A push to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from CT scans, above, nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopies. The government is focusing on overradiation by CT scans.
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