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Five months after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, researchers tested bluefin tuna caught off the coast of San Diego and found higher-than-normal levels of radiation.
Being pregnant is at once the best and worst feeling in the world. You’re giddy with the idea that your body is growing another human being, but your ankles are swollen and your waistline is erupting like Mt. Vesuvius. “If you only knew how tough this is,” you might find yourself saying to your partner. [...]
That old chestnut about women always wanting to cuddle? Myth, according to a Kinsey Institute study, which finds that kissing and hugging were more important to the happiness of men than of women.
There’s something about having kids that can turn a fairly rational person into a neurotic worrywart. So it was with our spring break trip to Hawaii, planned long before Japan trembled, flooded and announced that the emissions from its devastated nuclear reactors shared the same disaster category as Chernobyl.
Number of food products, including wasabi, cucumbers and green onions, found to be tainted with radioactive iodine-131 or cesium-137 in Tokyo and five other prefectures. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that fruits, vegetables and dairy products manufactured in the Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures will be held at U.S. ports [...]
In her 2009 book, A Paradise Built in Hell, author Rebecca Solnit describes how in the aftermath of natural and man-made disasters — such as the one unfolding in Japan — human beings tend to respond by banding together, not tearing apart.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning American consumers about counterfeit medications claiming to protect against radiation exposure.
When Kathryn Higley, head of the department of nuclear engineering and radiation health physics at Oregon State University, learned she was pregnant years ago, she immediately informed her supervisor, who outfitted her with a fetal dosimeter, an iPod-sized personal radiation monitoring system, to attach to her belly.
—TIM CHURCH, a spokesman for the Washington State Department of Health, assuring the public that the risk is thought to be low that radiation released in Japan will reach the U.S. at dangerous levels. Still, suppliers of potassium iodide tablets, which can help protect people from radiation-induced thyroid cancer, say they are having trouble keeping [...]
As workers continue to attempt to contain damage of the four reactors in Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, residents of the country are becoming increasingly worried about the health risks associated with radiation fallout from the plant — not only in the coming weeks, but months or years into the future.
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
