Health Care in the Computer Age
Computers and the companion technology has advanced both our social lives and has positively impacted overall health care in the past 20 or so years. This includes breast thermography, a new way of looking into a woman's body to find the signs of tumors that should be examined more closely for the existence of cancer. Early detection is key to beating this killer and now women have an alternative with thermography, which is less invasive and uses no radiation.
Using harmful x-rays has long been debated in the medical community as it has the potential to alter cell structure and may in some cases promote cancers as it also detects them. Of course this is a case of taking the good with the bad but when there are viable alternatives that don't pose this risk the choice seems simple indeed. It has always been a standard tenet of the medical community to 'do no harm' and therefore research is continually being conducted for benign alternatives to old and harmful practices.