Rx for Doctors: Stop With the Urine Tests
By Paula Span, The New York Times, October 14, 2019. It’s such a common routine in a doctor’s office or clinic or hospital that patients tend to comply without thinking: Step on the scale, roll
Tests and Imaging
Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data Are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek.
By Jack Gillum, Jeff Kao and Jeff Larson, for ProPublica. Sep 17, 2019. Medical images and health data belonging to millions of Americans, including X-rays, MRIs and CT scans, are sitting unprotected on the internet… Read More
Unnecessary Medical Tests, Treatments Cost $200 Billion Annually, Cause Harm
Overly aggressive care can hurt patients, generating mistakes and injuries believed to cause 30,000 deaths each year. From Kaiser Health News. It’s common knowledge in medicine: Doctors routinely order tests on hospital patients that are… Read More
How Dangerous Are CT Scans?
By Catherine Guthrie, TIME. Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an… Read More
MRI Dangers
By Dr. Mercola. Condensed by APRA. Gadolinium: The MRI Agent Linked to Brain Abnormalities. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the better choices if you need a diagnostic imaging procedure performed. Unlike CT scans… Read More
Medical Imaging Dangers
Radiation risk from medical imaging From Harvard Women’s Health Watch. Updated: April 2, 2018 There’s been a lot in the media about radiation exposure from medical imaging, and many of my patients are asking about… Read More