Radiation risks 'need updating'
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A UK panel examining radiation risks says official estimates of the dangers to health may be wide of the mark.
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Rapidly growing number of cancer patients may in fact be the Chernobyl&#39;s aftereffect, scientists claim. A new study suggests more than 800 people in northern Sweden developed cancer as a result of the radioactive
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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The number of sites contaminated in the Russian spy radiation poisoning case has doubled to 12 and is likely to rise again, British Home Secretary John Reid said. He disclosed that two more jetliners have been caught up in the scare -- although one was later given a clean bill of health.
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People who have full-body CT screenings to detect potential health problems are exposed to about as much radiation as some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a study in today&#39;s journal Radiology reports.
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NEW YORK  - The increased risk of cancer from the radiation used in a CT scan is negligible compared with the benefits for children who need a scan, according to investigators at Cincinnati's Hospital for Children in Ohio.
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Some chemicals should be re-assessed after new evidence that they accumulate in food chains, scientists say.
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Academics say safety concerns of new generation of plants have not yet been addressed
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Britain's stocks of plutonium are kept in 'unacceptable' conditions, experts warn today.
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Women were urged not to panic today about the latest health warning over hormone replacement therapy. An American study involving almost 17,000 women aged
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NEW YORK  - Two new studies suggest that  exposure to sunlight might not be as risky for cancer as is  generally believed.
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Having had cancer as children increased the risk among surviving adult women for breast cancer, particularly those who were treated with chest radiation, a new study says.
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The number of Americans undergoing CT scans has increased dramatically in recent years, driving a significant increase in the amount of radiation that many people are being exposed to from medical procedures.
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Long-term use increases the risk of developing tumors, new research indicates.
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NEW YORK  - Workers at one U.S. nuclear facility have suffered higher-than-average rates of certain cancers, a study shows -- suggesting that on-the-job exposures are to blame.
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The government announces proposals to improve patient safety as a study finds current safeguards are failing.
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Scientific evidence that fallout from Chernobyl may have raised cancer rates in western Europe has emerged for the first time. Researchers in Sweden identified a suspicious increase in cancer incidence in