Tag Archives: low-level exposure

Study of developmental disorders among newborns in Fukushima City after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear power plant accident via Fukushima Journal of Medical Science

Posted on 2019/11/01 by nfield

This corrects the article “Study of developmental disorders among newborns in Fukushima City after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear power plant accident; an adjunct study of the Fukushima Regional Center of the Japan Environmental and Children’s Study (JECS)” … Continue reading →

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Prolonged exposure to low-dose radiation may increase the risk of hypertension, a known cause of heart disease and stroke　via Hypertension Journal Report

Posted on 2019/05/05 by nfield

May 03, 2019 Categories: Heart News, Stroke News Study Highlights: A long-term study of Russian nuclear plant workers suggests that prolonged low-dose radiation exposure increases the risk of hypertension. This study is the first to associate an increased risk of hypertension to low … Continue reading →

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The nuclear sins of the Soviet Union live on in Kazakhstan via Nature

Posted on 2019/04/07 by nfield

Decades after weapons testing stopped, researchers are still struggling to decipher the health impacts of radiation exposure around Semipalatinsk. […] Other traces of the past are harder to see. Folded into the city’s history — into the very DNA of … Continue reading →

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Scientists still track health fallout of nuclear bombing of Japan　via PBS

Posted on 2016/05/26 by norma field

[…] MILES O’BRIEN: When I met him in 2012, radiation biophysicist Evan Douple was the associate chief of research at the Radiation Effects Research Foundation. The joint Japanese and U.S. study has been following the survivors of the atomic bombings … Continue reading →

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Herbert Abrams, pioneering radiologist and anti-nuclear activist at Stanford, dies at 95 via Stanford News

Posted on 2016/01/27 by norma field

Renowned radiologist Herbert Leroy Abrams, who co-founded the Nobel Prize-winning organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, died Jan. 20 at his Palo Alto home. He was 95. Abrams was a professor emeritus of radiology at Stanford University, … Continue reading →

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