Chernobyl study: Risk of thyroid cancer rises with radiation dose
SEATTLE The risk of thyroid cancer rises with increasing radiation dose, according to the most thorough risk analysis for thyroid cancer to date among people who grew up in the shadow of the 1986 Chernobyl power-plant disaster. ...The incidence of thyroid cancer was 45 times greater among those who received the highest radiation dose as compared to those in the lowest-dose group, according to a...Amorous worms reveal effects of Chernobyl
WORMS contaminated by radioactivity from the Chernobyl nuclear accident have started having sex with each other instead of on their own. According to Ukrainian scientists, they may have changed their sexual behaviour to increase their chances of survival. It's one of the first pieces of direct evidence on how wildlife is affected by radioactive pollution. ...Although there is a wealth of evidenc...Echinacea Symposium Presents New Research On Chernobyl Victims
. The results from a long-term clinical study in the Ukraine on the use of.Echinacea to treat victims of the Chernobyl disaster is among the new studies to.be presented at the 1999 International Echinacea Symposium June 3-5 in Kansas.City, MO. . . Dr. Victoriya F. Pochernyayeva, a leading researcher from Ukraine and the .former Soviet Union, will review the results of her long-term studies inclu...United States And Ukrainian Governments Establish Permanent Chernobyl Laboratory
.AIKEN, S.C. -- On July 22 an agreement between the United States and the.government of Ukraine was signed establishing a permanent international.radioecology laboratory in the city of Chernobyl near the site of the 1986.nuclear accident. The object of the five-year agreement is to establish the.scope of cooperation between the two governments in the conduct of field.oriented research and state...