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This page contains media coverage of the briefing held by MRI scientists and clinicians on the 20th September, 2005.

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Channel 4 News, Tuesday 20th September 2005
It’s intended to protect workers rights - but a new Euro directive could put British patients at intolerable risk.

EU curbs on scans ‘putting lives at risk’
The Times, 21st September 2005
The health of thousands of British patients, many of them children, will be endangered by needless European regulations that severely restrict the availability of MRI scans, according to senior specialists.

EU limits may lead to big cuts in MRI scans
The Guardian, 21st September 2005
Scientists claimed yesterday that the use of MRI scans that have revolutionised diagnosis over the last 25 years will be throttled by EU rules that must be adopted in Britain by 2008.

Doctors say patients’ lives will be at risk if EU enforces MRI rules
The Scotsman, 21st September 2005
Life-saving treatments are to be banned in the UK because of “arbitrary” new European restrictions on the use of MRI scanners, according to leading medical professionals.

Scan limits ‘will harm patients’
BBC News Online, 20th September 2005
European laws tightening the emission limits medical staff can be exposed to from scanners will stymie research and harm patients, warn UK experts.

Radiation law to block doctors’ work
Nature (online), 20th September 2005
Doctors across Europe are complaining loudly about new regulations on radiation exposure, which they say will needlessly hinder their use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) when treating patients.

EU law may hamper MRI science
The Scientist (online), 21st September 2005
A directive to protect workers from radiation could alsl hamper clinical and basic research.

New EU rules threaten MRI research
Reuters, 20th September 2005
New European regulations designed to limit workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields will harm patients because they will limit the use of MRI scans to diagnose and treat diseases, medical experts said on Tuesday.

EU threat to life-saving MRI scans
Evening Standard, 20th September 2005
Critically ill patients will be denied life-saving MRI scans under new European rules, scientists claimed today.

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