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Ultrasound safety studies questionable

Ultrasound safety studies questionable According to a meta-analysis released by the World Health Organization, no obvious detriment to health in the population has been found over 60~ studies.  In each...

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AIMS questions the safety of prenatal ultrasound

AIMS questions the safety of prenatal ultrasound This website was prepared in 2000, citing many of the safety issues regarding prenatal ultrasound that are still present today. A combination of...

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Mothers, please take this survey- especially if you HAVE NOT received...

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VVJLZBN Dr. Linda Gilililand is performing a preliminary study into investigating health outcomes after/or no exposure to ultrasound. If you are a mother (especially...

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A short history of ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/history.html Very cool resource for the history of ultrasound. Something I noticed was that Japan really pushed ultrasound for prenatal scanning a lot harder when it first...

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Ultrasonic cavitation can also be used to destroy fat, pit metal, and may be...

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/22263167/ultrasound-procedure-destroys-fat Or try the primary literature: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19360448 When focused with sufficient intensity, ultrasound...

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Sex selective abortions. I bring this up because ultrasound.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/05/female-feticide-ethical-issues-ultrasound-india-china.html Ultrasound is cost effective and is not restricted to the most advanced hospitals in the world. Because of...

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Prenatal ultrasound causes brain damage in mice

http://www.pnas.org/content/103/34/12903/F2.expansion.html According to this study, mouse brains exposed to diagnostic ultrasound grew incorrectly. This is brain damage during development. Developing...

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Effects of diagnostic ultrasound on villus ultrastructure of early pregnancy

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8758789 Cells can be damaged by diagnostic ultrasound. While I may not know much about the brain, I do know that when building the house the foundation is the most...

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