“While the beneficial applications of X radiation in the healing arts are well recognized, exposures from diagnostic X-ray procedures have far more public health significance than exposures from all other man-made radiation sources.” said Charles C. Edwards, M.D., Food and Drug Commissioner during the Nixon administration. “More than 90 percent of all human exposure to …
Vol 9
An Apple A Day…Is Good Health InsuranceBy FACT
Wouldn’t you like to know? Actually this not so difficult a question to answer. Many times you have told your Doctor what you thought it was. Reminds me of a recent story Dr. Alvarez told while he was young and starting in Mayos’ diagnostic clinic at Rochester. He said several doctors had examined this farmer, …
Parathyroid Tumors Also Linked to Early IrradiationBy FACT
SAN FRANCISCO – Neck irradiation of children and adolescents appears to increase their risk of later parathyroid adenoma as well as thyroid carcinoma, doctors at the University of California at San Francisco have reported. At a regional clinical research meeting, Dr. Michael D. Okerlund said the prevalence of parathyroid adenoma in such patients is 100 …
Parathyroid Tumors Also Linked to Early IrradiationBy FACTRead More
Are You Getting Too Much Radiation?By Junius Adams
“Every exposure to these particles damages living tissue and the effects are cumulative. Now, discover why even your color TV could be wrecking your health… Shivering and half-naked, you are brought into a room containing a gigantic ray gun and what appears to be an executioner’s worktable. The torturer puts you on his block, arranges …
Alginate and PectinBy Jack Joseph
Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and radioactive strontium 90 continue to arouse the concern of health-minded individuals. These substances are pollutants which are spewed out in industrial wastes and through other sources of pollution. They contaminate our air, food, drinking water and our bodies. Once in our tissues, they can interfere with cellular metabolism, …
An Apple A Day…Is Good Health InsuranceBy FACT
Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and radioactive strontium 90 continue to arouse the concern of health-minded individuals. These substances are pollutants which are spewed out in industrial wastes and through other sources of pollution. They contaminate our air, food, drinking water and our bodies. Once in our tissues, they can interfere with cellular metabolism, …
