X-rays - Diagnostic excess - Despite the known cumulative risks to you and your unborn children, this most routine medical test is still being overused on nearly every part of you...

X-rays increase down's risk - Exposure to radiation including x-rays and other medical tests increases a woman's risk of giving birth to a Down's syndrome baby, new evidence has di...

X-rays: - 10 per cent increase in a year - The average annual exposure to radiation among the British public has risen over the past year - and it's all down to medical screening. So many peop...

X-rays and pregnancy - Q:When did research first point out the dangers of x-rays during pregnancy and links with leukemia? ...

Cancer: X-rays may be a bigger cause than doctors thought - X-rays and other medical scans could be playing a far bigger part in the spread of cancer than doctors had previously thought. New research has disco...

Doctors lax on x-rays - Hospitals are zapping X-ray patients with levels higher than necessary. ...

Back pain doesn't benefit from x-rays - Patients with low back pain believe they are getting 'good' care if there are sent for X-rays in spite of the fact that the X-ray does nothing to impr...

Radiation doses from common x-rays - Here is a list of the most common x-rays. It includes the average percentage of particular types make up of all x-rays ie, dental x-rays account for...