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Proposals out for medical imaging around kids so you know how to downsize a radiation dose for kids who is smaller, their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. [inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cos...

[inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so recommended that women start mammography at age ao where the benefits really out weigh the risk, you dont have 40 years left in your life sp...

Johnson johnson has taken it out of their products in china and other countries but not in the United States, well, if you can do it in one country, why cant you do it in all of them, doesnt everybody deserve safer baby shampoo no matter where they live . That put a lot of pressure on them because the consumers said we dont want those things in our products and the change happened and now they have a plan with timelines and clear transparent goals to get those chemicals out of their products. It...

You end up with productions of combustion, it may not be better for pollution on the other side, depending on how clean the air burns and thats a theme we end up talking about a fair bit unfortunately is that bio doesnt always mean its safer, it can, it can definitely mane were reducing destruction of Greenhouse Gases but it can still make bad things outs of good ingredients if you know what i mean, another outdoor thing is to reduce your reliance on household pesticides so the active ingredient...

Were being exposed to a lot more radiation from medical tests, sometimes thats the only option, its worth that added risk because the alternative is really dangerous sometimes, but we want to ensure those scans and those medical imaging tests are the most appropriate, are at the right dose, especially for kids are a lot of times, they dont know how to scale down for a childsize body and the machines may not calibrate or have clear directions on how to make that happen so in our own lives, we can...

And also some policies, and then well kind of go beyond the home to talk about the kinds of exposures that might be not within our control in the house but elsewhere. And it looks like i have videos so that is good. So, the Breast Cancer fund is a National Organization that works to prevent Breast Cancer by eliminating the environmental exposures linked o the disease, mostly we talk about chemicals and radiation that are linked to Breast Cancer, we are a little different from your Breast Cancer ...

Their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. [inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so recommended that women start ma...

Only option, its worth that added risk because the alternative is really dangerous sometimes, but we want to ensure those scans and those medical imaging tests are the most appropriate, are at the right dose, especially for kids are a lot of times, they dont know how to scale down for a childsize body and the machines may not calibrate or have clear directions on how to make that happen so in our own lives, we can ask our health care provides, are there safer alternative, mri or ultrasounds for ...

They all sound like theyre good because they all sound like, you know, safety of chemicals in cosmetic, they all have those words but they dont really all do that so i think its also important as youre thinking about these things to go to a Reputable Organization that you trust is going to give you real information and support the kinds of laws that theyre supporting rather than one thats maybe a bill posed by the industry that, guess what, wants to be selfregulating. Okay, so now we are moving ...

Dose for kids who is smaller, their physical size is narrower, and also to make machines more accountable and more clear in how they work. [inaudible]. Its very low doses but thats an excellent question and i thought somebody would probably ask that. So, the United States Preventative Services task force in 2009 came out with a proposal to revise guidelines saying that perhaps women aged 40 to 50, theres no cost benefit really for that age group in terms of having mammogram of average risk, so r...