By Julia Stander Mammogram screenings are widely touted as being the best tool for early breast cancer detection, but critics point to false positives, increased radiation and the fact that about half of women have “dense breast tissue,” which makes mammograms more difficult to interpret. However, these two technologies work in different ways, so it… Read More
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How to Protect Yourself Against Possible Radioactivity from the Fukushima Reactors
Guest blogger, Oram Miller, BBEI, is a Certified Building Biology Environmental Inspector in Southern California. One of the most potentially catastrophic environmental health threats to the world’s population is the ongoing nuclear reactor crisis in Japan. While news reports tend to paint the health risks as isolated to the immediate area around the Fukushima plant,… Read More