http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As relations between Tokyo and Beijing appear increasingly in need of major surgery, officials in the far north of Japan are hoping the infant industry of medical tourism can thrive unscathed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-japan-medical-tourists-immune-china.html Other Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:40:01 EST news270178176 Hong Kong said Thursday it will test babies who have consumed Japanese-made infant formulas found to have insufficient levels of iodine, after the products were ordered off the city's shelves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-hong-kong-babies-japanese-formula.html Pediatrics Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:10:30 EST news263700623 Researchers have released a preliminary report on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the surrounding areas, following radiation levels for approximately three months following the event and surveying more than 5,000 people in the region. The report was published in the Nov. 16 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-preliminary-fukushima-reveals-relative-safety.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:47:58 EST news240688070 On the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a comment published by Lancet Oncology describes the known health consequences of the 1986 event. The authors are Kirsten B. Moysich, PhD, MS, and Philip McCarthy, Jr., MD, both of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), and Per Hall, PhD, of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden — who have contributed to numerous scholarly articles on this topic, including the first major United Nations Report into the effects of the Chernobyl accident in 2000. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-chernobyl-years-lessons-japan.html Cancer Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:12:45 EST news223114350 Radiation spewing from Japan's severely damaged nuclear facilities following the recent earthquake and tsunami is not endangering the United States' food supply, according to a food-safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-japan-nation-food.html Health Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:32:58 EST news223036363