Profiteers in the medical CT scan business took a big hit last week from a major new government report on the causes of breast cancer.
Published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the exhaustive analysis found that medical radiation, particularly the large radiation dose delivered by CT scans, is the foremost identifiable cause of breast cancer.[1]
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Death to Traffic! Rick Steves on Iran
Interesting presentation by Rick on his trip to Iran, which was also filmed as a documentary and aired on PBS, and can be seen here.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
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