A community portal about Radiation poisoning with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Radiation poisoning, also called "radiation sickness", is a form of damage to organic tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing...
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A community portal about Radiation poisoning with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Radiation poisoning, also called "radiation sickness", is a form of damage to organic tissue due to excessive exposure to ionizing radiation. The term is generally used to refer to acute problems caused by a large dosage of radiation in a short period. Many of the symptoms of radiation poisoning occur as ionizing radiation interferes with cell division. This interference allows for treatment of cancer cells; such cells are among the fastest-dividing in the body, and will be killed by a radiation dose that adjacent normal cells are likely to survive.
Toxicology tests confirmed Friday that two American women are suffering from thallium poisoning, according to a California hospital. Marina Kovalevsky, 42, and her daughter, Yanna, 26, were not expected to be released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before the weekend. read more | digg story Accident, My behind! Tags: Russia, Moscow, Poison
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My story and finding the humor in it. After realizing I had Uterine Cancer three years ago I underwent a complete hysterectomy, which left me facing numerous radiation treatments at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We live about forty minutes from there in a small town, so to say this was going to be an easy journey would have been a lie. The thought of viewing this with humor did not even resound throughout my brain, yet three almost four years later I can look back on those times and see the...
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A pharmaceutical company that recently lost a government contract to develop a treatment for exposure to radiation from a nuclear bomb is stopping work on its product. The decision may forebode a loss of interest by pharmaceutical companies to develop products against biological weapons for government procurement.
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There is a nagging problem under the surface of the excitement surrounding the future of long-term missions into space. Human exposure to the high amounts of solar radiation and other sources of cosmic rays is likely to be the main factor that could curtail mankind's dreams for future manned...
A class action against the New South Wales government over alleged radiation poisoning is being considered by the relatives of a number of Sydney residents who died of cancer in the 1970s.
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America's political leadership should better support our troops. Many past and current examples support this statement.
Thousands of American troops were purposefully exposed to nuclear radiation during bomb tests in Nevada. What is worse, our government did not compensate veterans for...
You can see the difference between a DNA molecule that has been exposed to ionizing radiation and one that has not. Credit: NASA
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With space particle radiation able to go through the human body—and which it can–it...
U.S. scientists say they've found a common class of freshwater invertebrates called bdelloid rotifers is extraordinarily resistant to ionizing radiation.
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Bacteria tails could protect against 'dirty' bomb 13:55 11 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service Debora MacKenzie A drug made out of Salmonella can protect mice and monkeys from high doses of radiation. It might help protect rescuers who have to enter a radioactive area after attack with a...
Toxicology tests confirmed Friday that two American women are suffering from thallium poisoning, according to a California hospital. Marina Kovalevsky, 42, and her daughter, Yanna, 26, were not expected to be released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles before the weekend. read more | digg story Accident, My behind! Tags: Russia, Moscow, Poison
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