The 12 week scan is not bad i am 25weeks and i was scarid to go for it to. When you go they will show you the baby and let you hear the heart beat and give you a better duedate then what you get when you tell the doctor the first day of your last cycle. You will love it i sware that to you it make your pregnancy that more real to you. Good Luck On 21st and if you need to talk just let me know.

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The following article by Steve Ford appeared in the Nursingtimes.net

The safety of magnetic resonance imaging for nurses and other staff is to be investigated by the Health Protection Agency.
The agency said that it had approved ‘in principle’ the need for an epidemiological study of possible adverse effects from high static field MRI imaging machines, due to lack of current evidence.

It is expected to carry out the research as part of an international collaborative study on behalf of the World Health Organization. The HPA, which will lead the work, said it was now assessing the study’s feasibility with the aim of launching it as soon as possible.

‘The exposures to patients and medical staff from the magnetic fields can be high and there is a shortage of information on possible adverse long-term health effects,’ said HPA chairperson Sir William Stewart.

The announcement follows a report from the agency’s independent Advisory Group on Non-ionising Radiation. The group’s chairperson, Professor Anthony Swerdlow, said: ‘There is a pressing need for a well-conducted study of mortality and cancer incidence in workers with high occupational exposures to static magnetic fields, particularly those associated with medical MRI scanners.’

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