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Doomsday Scenario at Fukushima

Marvin Resnikoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Health Effects, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nuclear Accident, Cesium, Nuclear Fuel, Zirconium, Radiation, Green News
Marvin Resnikoff

The slow motion events occurring at Japan's (or GE's) Fukushima reactor cannot be sugar-coated. It is a doomsday scenario unfolding. Nuclear reactors are not the same as coal/oil/gas electricity plants -- they cannot be turned off.

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Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe?

aolnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Cell Phone Radiation Safe, Cell Phone Radiation, Cell Phone, Mobile Phone Radiation, Radiation, Cell Phone Radiation Levels, Technology News

More than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost ever...

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TSA Will Publish Radiation Test Results To Gauge Health Risks Of Airport Scanners

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Airport Body Scanners, Tsa Body Scanner Concerns, Tsa, Tsa Scanners, Personal Health, Airport Radiation, Radiation Body Scanners, Airport Screenings, Radiation, Airport Security Scanners, Airport Scanners Radiation, Home News

The Transportation Security Administration said on Friday it will start publishing radiation test results from airport passenger and luggage scree...

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What We Can Do Now For Japan

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Recovery, Relief, Tsunami, International-Relief-Agencies, Red Cross, Televangelists, Rebuilding, Earthquake, Operation USA, Japan, Radiation, Impact News
Richard Walden

I urge the donating public to take it slowly and deliberately. Better to carefully sort through relief agencies' descriptions of what they plan to do over the next month to two years in Japan to help it recover.

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Reading the Pictures: The Japan Image That Could Depict a Generation Held Ransom

Michael Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Japan Radiation, Japan Earthquake, Radiation, World News
Michael Shaw

2011-03-13-bagnews.jpgWho can't relate to that sweet face and its innocent confusion? There's more to it, though.

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How Bad Is The Nuclear Accident In Japan?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Energy, What Is a Nuclear Meltdown, Natural Disasters, Japan Radiation, Nuclear Power Plant, Fukushima, Japan Earthquake 2011, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Energy, 2011 Japan Earthquake, Japan Nuclear Power, Radiation, Japan Nuclear, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear Power Plant Japan, Japan Three Mile Island, Japan, Three Mile Island, Green News

NEW YORK (Scott DiSavino) – The Japanese nuclear safety agency rated the damage at a nuclear power plant at Fukushima at a four on a scale of one to...

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In the Chemo Room: 17 Minutes to Appeal $176,365 Bill

Robert Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Cancer, Health Insurance, Business, Health Care, Cancer Treatment, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Radiation, Denver News
Robert Schwab

I go back to the chemo room later today, but this morning I sat in on a medical panel that heard my appeal of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's denial of $176,365 of radiation "benefits" I received last summer.

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The Big Question: Are Cell Phones Dangerous?

Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Cell Phone Radiation Health Risks, Cell Phone Radiation, Personal Health, Cell Phone Radiation Study, Cell Phone Radiation Research, Cell Phone Radiation Danger, Are Cell Phones Dangerous, Cell Phones, Radiation, Cell Phone Brain, Radiation From Cell Phones, Home News
Devra Davis, Ph.D.

New studies show that just 50 minutes of cell phone radiation excites the brain. This finding strengthens the need for a research program and for putting warning labels on cell phones.

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How Iodine May Help Protect You From Radiation Damage

Anne Dunev | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Iodine, RADIATION EXPOSURE, Los Alamos, Thyroid Cancer, Mental Retardation, Thyroid, Scien, Los-Alamos-National-Laboratory, TSA Security, Thyroid Medication, Air Travel, Radiation, Thyroid-Cancer, Health, Home News
Anne Dunev

How much radiation a person can handle without developing cancer is very individual. Having sufficient iodine can help protect your body against many types of radiation.

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Terror and the TSA

Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Terror, Airport, Dhs, Scanner, Airplane, Bomber, Tsa, Radiation, Chertoff, Napolitano, Lieberman, Thompson, Politics News
Andrew Kreig

The growing national protests against so-called "porno-scans" and pat-downs of passenger private parts should be a turning point in our country's fear-mongering about terror threats.

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The Mental Game of Breast Cancer: Part Two

Nancy F. Koehn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Health News, Breast Cancer, Harvard, Womens Health, Radiation, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer Awareness, Home News
Nancy F. Koehn

There is an "underground railroad" of support fueling the fight against breast cancer. In the spirit of this vital "railroad" and the amazing communi...

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Nuclear Power Ambivalence: the Fears and the Facts

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Germany, Melanoma, Carcinogen, Berlin, Who, Risk Perception, Co2, Merkel, Bundestag, Project Syndicate, Coal, Nuclear Industry, Radiation, Japan, Vaccines, Hibakusha, Electricity, Oil, Genetically Modified Food, Chernobyl, Nuclear Power, Green News
David Ropeik

Germany's ambivalence about nuclear power, common in many developed countries, is again on display following the decision by Chancellor Merkel and the...

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The Mental Game of Breast Cancer

Nancy F. Koehn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Harvard, Breast Cancer, Women's Health, Chemotherapy, Radiation, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Home News
Nancy F. Koehn

October is drawing to a close and with it, much of the large-scale, public activity surrounding Breast Cancer Awareness month. Ah, if only the diseas...

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Is This Common Kitchen Appliance Harming Your Health?

Dr. Joseph Mercola | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mercola, Living News, Microwave, Dr. Mercola, Radiation, Joseph Mercola, Health, Mercola.com, Healthier Greener Home, Video, Healthy Living News
Dr. Joseph Mercola

Your microwave oven will NOT help you prepare healthy food--and will threaten your health by ripping the molecules in your food apart, rendering some nutrients inert and others carcinogenic.

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Cell Phones and Brain Tumors: A No-Brainer

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Cedars-Sinai, Brain Tumors, Earpieces, Health, Risks, Cell Phones, Interphone, Cancer, Digital Devices, Studies, Radiation, Keith Black, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

In May, the long-awaited results of international, decade-long study showed no increased risk for the two most common forms of brain cancer -- glioma and meningioma -- among cellphone users.

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Russian Forest Fires Stoke Nuclear Fears. Beware Fear Itself!

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Forest Fires, Co2, Greenpeace, Nuclear, Chemicals, Radiation, Offshore Drilling, Radioactivity, Climate Change, Genetically Modified Foods, Chernobyl, Smarter Ideas, Green News
David Ropeik

Greenpeace claims that some of the forest fires in Russia are burning in areas contaminated in 1986 with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Should people in that region be alarmed?

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Russian Wildfires Raise Fears Of Radioactive Smoke

AP | MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Russia, Russia Fires, Russia Radiation, Chernobyl, Radiation, Russia Wildfires, World News

MOSCOW — Wildfires threatened to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Ru...

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How the First Nuclear Blast, 65 Years Ago Today, Set Truman on Path to Hiroshima

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Truman, Nuclear Weapons, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Trinity, Radiation, A Bomb, Harry S. Truman, Japan Atomic Bomb, Truman Atomic Bomb, World War II, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

There is no way any American president would have gone ahead with an invasion -- scheduled for several long months after the Trinity test -- knowing that he had an A-bomb in his pocket.

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Secrecy, Cover-ups and Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Manhttan Project, Nuclear Weapons, Atomic Bomb, Truman, Radiation, Hiroshima, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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Abnormal Radiation Detected Near Korean Border After Hydrogen Bomb Claims

AP | HYUNG-JIN KIM | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hydrogen Bomb, Seoul, South Korea, Radiation Levels, Nuclear Energy, Korea, Radiation, North Korea, World News

SEOUL, South Korea — Abnormally high radiation levels were detected near the border between the two Koreas days after North Korea claimed to hav...

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Target Safely

Tim R. Williams M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Cancer, Radiation Oncology, Radiation, Healthy Living News
Tim R. Williams M.D.

Facing a cancer diagnosis is one of life's most difficult challenges. But recent, flawed news articles may be frighten patients and make them decide to forgo the life-saving treatments they most need.

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Radiation, DU and Burn Pits -- Iraq's Cancer: "America's Gift That Keeps Giving"

R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cancer, Burn Pits, Icbuw, Radiation, Va, R. B. Stuart, Iraq, Dod, Du, Carcinogen, Bradley G. Mayes, Burke PLLC, Motley Rice, Naomi Toyoda, Military, Veteran's, VA Compensation for Exposure, Depleted Uranium, Army SPC Travis Bromfield, World News
R. B. Stuart

Memorial Day makes us remember that no matter how many wars, generations and decades go by, we as a human race never seem to learn.

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The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands

Robert Alvarez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Nuclear Testing, Radiation, World News
Robert Alvarez

As it now stands, if forced to return to their homeland the Rongelap people could receive radiation doses about 10 times greater than allowed for the public in the United States.

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Flying and Excess Radiation

Robert Alvarez | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Michael Chertoff, Underwear Bomber, Whole-Body Scanners, Full-Body Scanners, Radiation, Radiation Risks of Flying, Technology News
Robert Alvarez

If airline crew members already face unreported radiation risks from long-distance flying, we have a right to know just how whole-body radiation scanning machines are part of this risk.

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Real Health Care Reform: Limit Excessive Care and Remove Nonclinical Factors From Medical Decisions

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: RADIATION EXPOSURE, Er, PULMONARY EMBOLUS, CT Scans, Radiation, Medicine, Pulmonary, Healthy Living News
Dr. Dennis Gottfried

It may sound simple, but limiting excessive care and basing medical treatment on science tempered by compassion has proven very difficult to accomplish.

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