Shocking Levels of X-Ray Radiation given to Premature Babies

By WALT BOGDANICH and KRISTINA REBELO
New York Times

Dr. Sclafani noticed that a newborn had been irradiated from head to toe — with no gonadal shielding — even though only a simple chest X-ray had been ordered.

“I was mortified,” he wrote on July 27, 2007. Worse, technologists had given the same baby about […]