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[–] Paragone@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago

Years ago, I read a research news item about having looked at gut-cells, after an ultrasound, & finding that they were having an abnormally elevated death-rate.

Anybody who understands that if that holds, if ultrasound stresses cells in an unnatural way which is actually-significant, even only slightly, that having all babies ultrasounded might be a stupid idea?


anybody who knows some of the history of the X-Ray, knows that Marie Curie's corpse is kept in a lead coffin, because it's too radioactive,

& that medical-X-rays NOW are drasticlly lower-energy than what they were in the 1900's ( new machines, anyways ).

I expect the same to be true of ultrasound machines: less energy, for the same view..

The point of this, though, is that the ONLY study I know-of which looked at whether cell-death is increased by ultrasound, discovered that yes, it is, & .. nobody cared??

That's the wrong response.

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