While it seems like restoring blood flow to an injured leg would be a good thing, it can actually cause additional damage that hinders recovery, researchers say.
May 14, 2014
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Though just two of Hirono's 5,418 residents lost their lives in Japan's mega-earthquake and tsunami, a new study shows that the survivors are struggling to keep their sanity.
Mar 6, 2014
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At first blush, the health-care and nuclear-power industries don't appear to have much in common. But in a unique, two-day workshop in July 2012, leaders from these two industries met to discuss their similarities and differences, ...
May 6, 2013
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German authorities are increasing their stockpile of iodine tablets as a precaution for the possibility of a nuclear incident.
Aug 22, 2019
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Federal regulators are pulling the plug on a five-year study of the risk of cancer in communities around six U.S. nuclear plants and a nuclear fuel site.
Sep 9, 2015
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A review of the current issues in low-dose radiation research authored by two radiation biologists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is the cover story of the May 2013 issue of Radiation Research. The review, ...
May 14, 2013
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Japanese researchers have created novel cell growth factor FGFC that is considered effective in preventing and treating injury due to high-dose radiation. Until now, there have been insufficient drugs effective in suppression ...
Nov 2, 2012
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The results of two studies in the August 15 issue of JAMA report on the psychological status of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan several months after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and the ...
Aug 14, 2012
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An international team of scientists has determined under which conditions a body produces more superoxide—a dangerous form of oxygen able to destroy DNA. The article was published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.
Apr 5, 2016
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Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.
Feb 28, 2013
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