Radiation exposure is especially dangerous for flight crews and frequent flyers. Here's how to best protect yourself.

For a few hours each lunar day, the radiation environment near the moon quietly shifts. Measurements now suggest that parts of the moon’s orbit pass through a region where harmful cosmic radiation ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning American consumers about counterfeit medications claiming to protect against radiation ...

In A Nutshell Pregnant women across Japan, including those far from Fukushima, gave birth to lighter, more premature babies ...

Ever wonder what would happen if you didn’t wear the lead apron they put on you at the dentist’s office or in the operating room? What would actually happen to your body? Better yet, even if you wore ...

Recent release of the waste water from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster stirred apprehension regarding the health implications of radiation exposure. Classified as a Group 1 carcinogen, ionizing ...

This chapter presents models that allow one to estimate the lifetime risk of cancer resulting from any specified dose of ionizing radiation and applies these models to example exposure scenarios for ...

A survey found that each South Korean citizen undergoes an average of eight radiation-based imaging tests per year. This ...

Interventional echocardiographers working with suspended lead suits (Zero-Gravity system; Biotronik) during left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) procedures are exposed to significantly less ...

Researchers analyzed 1.1 million births surrounding the Fukushima nuclear accident to isolate the effects of maternal ...