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Americans get most radiation from medical scans
Almost everyday, a new form of disease is sprouting and in order for this type of disease to be diagnosed at an early stage, health professionals are devising new ways to detect this problems as early as they can so as to prevent the spread of the disease that might pose serious problems later. One of the most popular way to detect these various types of diseases are  the medical scans. But according to MARILYNN MARCHIONE, a medical writer, on her article at Yahoo! News, Americans get most radiation from medical scans. Here’s an excerpt from her article:
Stages of the Radiolysis of Water
As we have learned, the human body is composed of approximately 80% of water, thus it is sometimes referred to as in an aqueous state (human body). Since we are primarily comprised of this molecule, when our body is exposed to radiation, most probably, the radiation will interact with the water molecules (indirect effect). Radiolysis of water is defined as the dissociation action of
