'Super' scanner shows key detail

"A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by some 80%. The new CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final detailed images. It also...

What is Autism

"Autism is a complex condition sharing many similarities with other conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. For a diagnosis of autism to be made, there must be some other symptoms such as difficulties with speech, abnormalities of posture or gesture, impaired...

Ahead Of Their Time

"How doctors are rethinking the growing problem of preterm births--by focusing on the moms, not the babies. In the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, the number of babies born too early keeps going up--and with all their medical savvy, doctors can't figure out...

Military Family Values

This stuff can't tell the difference between the unborn child of a U.S. soldier, and the child of an enemy.

Gulf Veterans Have Fathered Offspring With Serious Birth Defects

At a rate FOUR TIMES higher than the non-veteran population.

Children Born Of Female Military Veterans

Study reveals that U.S. Gulf War veterans' children have a much higher likelihood of having three specific types of birth defects: Children born of male veterans -Two types of heart valve abnormality. Children born of female veterans - Genital-urinary defects. Study...

Fastest Growing Leukemia Cluster In The U.S. Over The Past Decade

"Thousands of tons of DU weapons tested for decades by the Navy on four bombing and gunnery ranges around Fallon, Nevada, is no doubt the cause of the fastest growing leukemia cluster in the U.S. over the past decade. The military denies that DU is the cause."

Babies Born To 251 Veterans

"67 per cent of the babies were reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth defects. They were born without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers, thyroid or other malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers internally contaminated...

He Was Exposed To Depleted Uranium

He was sent home from Iraq, stricken by a sudden illness. One side of his face would swell up each morning. He had constant migraine headaches, blurred vision, blackouts and a burning sensation whenever he urinated.

Tests On Returning Troops Suggest DU Health Consequences

"immediately urged his wife to get an ultrasound check of their unborn baby. They discovered the fetus had a condition common to those with radioactive exposure: atypical syndactyly. The right hand had only two digits/angry at a government that never warned him about...

Born in Afghanistan

Breathing uranium oxide dust in Afghanistan is not healthy.  Need to watch the future births to the non-civilians who might have visited this uranium contaminated country.