According to the New York Times:

"A former Food and Drug Administration scientist said Tuesday his job was eliminated after he raised concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning.

Dr. Julian Nicholas told an audience of imaging specialists that he and other FDA staffers ''were pressured to change their scientific opinion,'' by managers in the agency's medical device division.

Nicholas, now a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, said he and eight other staffers raised their concerns with the division's top director last September.

''Scientific and regulatory review process for medical devices was being distorted by managers who were not following the laws,'' Nicholas said. A month later Nicholas' position was ''terminated,'' he said.

Hundreds of studies have linked certain types of radiation, including the type used in medical imaging, to cancer that can surface decades later.

CT scans provide detailed, three-dimensional images of the body, but at a cost: one CT chest scan carries as much radiation as nearly 400 chest X-rays, according to the FDA.

The average American's radiation exposure has nearly doubled in the last three decades, largely due to CT tests, according to the FDA.

The FDA announced an effort to improve scanning safety after three California hospitals reported hundreds of acute radiation overdoses last year, with many patients reporting lost hair and skin redness."

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