In 2017, business traveler Tom Stuker was hailed as the world’s most frequent flyer, logging 18,000,000 miles of air travel on United Airlines over 14 years. He would also have accumulated a radiation ...

The use of CT in the US has been increasing exponentially over the past decade. The greatest increases in CT use have been in pediatric diagnosis and adult screening. Unfortunately, there is little ...

Radiation has been a staple of breast cancer treatment for decades, but a new study is casting doubt on whether it is ...

At UCSF, Coakley says, radiologists are analyzing a way to use the radiology information system to flag some patients who have had multiple CT studies so that the radiologist can interact with the ...

Young girls could be up to 10 times more vulnerable to nuclear radiation than other members of society, with girls aged up to five twice as likely to develop cancer as boys of the same age. "In ...

One thing is certain about the human costs of the radiation leaking from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan: they will pale in comparison to the catastrophic consequences of the March 11 ...

By putting cell phone radiation in this category, the IARC is basically saying that there is some evidence in humans, which suggests there is a credible chance that cell phones may cause cancer. But ...

Radioactive dust and particles could escape from the damaged Reactor 4 if the disaster site is hit by another missile.

When considering human settlements on the moon, Mars and further afield, much attention is given to the travel times, food and radiation risk. We'll undoubtedly face a harsh environment in deep space ...

In the February 8 Science, Yuri Dubrova and colleagues reported a study of the genetic risk of ionizing radiation to humans (Science 2002, 295:1037). They studied blood samples from 40 ...

Roughly 270 million Americans do it several times a day: talk on a cell phone. Seems harmless. But when you make and re­ceive calls, your cell phone emits low levels of radio-frequency radiation — a ...