For nearly four decades, the stray dogs of Chernobyl have lived and bred in one of the most contaminated landscapes on Earth, ...

Everyone is exposed to some radiation. It’s the level of exposure that determines whether there’s any harmful effect. But how much radiation is a lot? Here are a few numbers for comparison.

Conclusion: The addition of concurrent high-dose, single-agent cisplatin to conventional single daily fractionated radiation significantly improves survival, although it also increases toxicity. The ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 277, No. 1370 (Feb. 11, 1964), pp. 348-364 (17 pages) Exposure of polyethylene and paraffins to ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Impairs Rituximab-Mediated Cellular Cytotoxicity and Outcome of Patients With Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Treated With but Not Without Rituximab Review of the prospective ...

In a new editorial, a radiological protection expert from the UK gives a detailed account of events at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station, and poses several questions that remain ...

Could a century-old military communication method be quietly protecting our planet from deadly space radiation? NASA’s Van Allen Probes, launched in 2012 to study Earth’s radiation belts, stumbled ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding the article "Misplaced fear" (May 15), about radiation risks at West Lake Landfill and Coldwater Creek: When it comes ...

More than half of people diagnosed with cancer have radiation therapy, which uses carefully targeted doses of high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells. Radiation oncologists are the highly trained ...