If you're pregnant and worried about the safety of those full-body scanners at the airport, you can rest easy. These scanners, which first emerged in US airports after the attempted terrorist attack ...

If you've flown recently, you may have seen them: new scanning booths that produce full-body images of airline passengers in order to detect hidden weapons, liquids, narcotics and other contraband.

Before they were removed following an outcry over privacy, backscatter X-ray security scanners at airports also raised worries among some travelers and scientists about exposure to potentially harmful ...

The danger from radiation exposure for any given person walking through a backscatter X-ray machine at an airport is low, but there’s controversy over whether the aggregate risk to the traveling ...

(AP) – Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dose X-ray will be gone by ...

Q. All the fast-food places now have healthy entrees and salads. Or so they claim. How healthy are they, really? — Katie, via email A. The idea of “healthy fast food” is probably more wished for than ...

CHICAGO — Just in time for holiday travel, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is receiving a new type of body scanner that should help speed up the lines at security checkpoints and that displays ...

The new “strip search” scanning machines at airport security checkpoints are increasingly causing furor over issues of privacy, decency and health. Over the weekend, a passenger in San Diego, software ...

During the busiest travel time of the year, many Americans will soon be subjected to radiation-emitting body scanners at the nation's airports. Despite a rising tide of concerns and complaints in ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The radiation risk from full-body scanners used to improve airport security is low and unlikely to raise an individual's risk of cancer, U.S. experts said on Wednesday. Airports in ...