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  • Physicals at $2,500 Lure Executives With Thorough Scans

    Standard physicals are, well, pretty standard. During a visit geared more toward detecting disease than preventing it, your doctor makes you cough and checks your numbers. If there’s an abnormality -- your blood pressure has spiked or your liver enzymes are elevated -- it’s your schedule that suffers as you’re shuttled between specialists.

  • Amgen Drugs May Boost Survival During a Nuclear Attack

    Amgen Inc.’s Neulasta and Neupogen and a similar blood-boosting drug from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. may help people survive after a nuclear attack, U.S. regulators said.

  • Tepco Faces Growing Suit by U.S. Troops Over Radiation Exposure

    Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s bill for its Fukushima nuclear disaster may swell as more U.S. military personnel charge the utility lied about radiation levels they faced while assisting in relief efforts after Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

  • Higher Rates of Advanced Imaging Raise Radiation Exposure

    The number of Americans undergoing advanced imaging tests has skyrocketed, increasing their exposure to radiation that may result in cancer later in life, a study found.

  • Thyroid Radiation Exposure Found in Children Near Tepco Plant

    Medical tests on children living in three towns near the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant found 45 percent of those surveyed suffered low-level thyroid radiation exposure, Japan’s government said in a statement.

  • Fukushima Radiation Proves Less Deadly Than Feared

    It is two years since Japan’s 9.0- magnitude earthquake, one so powerful it shifted the position of the Earth’s figure axis by as much as 6 inches and moved Honshu, Japan’s main island, 8 feet eastward. The tsunami generated by the earthquake obliterated towns, drowned almost 20,000 people and left more than 300,000 homeless. Everyone living within 15 miles of Fukushima was evacuated; many are still in temporary housing. Some will never be able to return home.

  • Pluristem Wins NIH Backing for Radiation-Exposure Study

    Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a developer of placenta-based stem-cell therapies, will work with a U.S. National Institutes of Health unit to evaluate the company’s PLX cells for the treatment of radiation exposure.

  • U.S. Regulators to Investigate Mobile Phone Health Issues

    Federal regulators today began an inquiry into whether U.S. standards need to be updated to protect people from mobile-phone radiation.

  • Japan Cuts Radiation Exposure Limit for Fukushima Plant Workers

    Japan’s government lowered the maximum allowable exposure for workers at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled atomic station after radiation levels fell.

  • Japan Says Radiation Clean-Up to Cut Children’s Exposure by 60%

    Japan’s government said stepped up efforts to clean-up radioactive fallout from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled nuclear power plant will reduce children’s radiation exposure by 60 percent within two years,

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