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Depleted uranium – see online film

The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children Top Documentary Films 15 Dec 09 An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn.The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations.

It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children.

Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.

The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children | Watch Free Documentary Online

December 15, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, Iraq | antinuclear, cancer, depleted, nuclear, uranium | Leave a comment

Nuclear plant communities to get anti-cancer medication

Anti-radiation potassium iodide pills to be distributed near Perry nuclear power plant CLEVELAND.com By Harlan Spector, The Plain Dealer December 13, 2009,Potassium iodide pills distributed years ago to neighbors of the Perry nuclear power plant have reached the end of their shelf life. Continue reading →

December 15, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear spin, radioactive | Leave a comment

Connection between CT scans and cancer

Radiation from CT scans linked to cancers, deaths

By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 15 Dec 09

CT scans deliver far more radiation than previously believed and may contribute to 29,000 new cancers each year, along with 14,500 deaths, suggest two studies in today’s Archives of Internal Medicine. One study, led by the National Cancer Institute’s Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, used existing exposure data to estimate how many cancers might be caused by CT scans. Continue reading →

December 15, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Doctors threaten to resign over uranium mining

North Shore doctors threaten to resign en masse over uranium exploration The Montreal Gazette December 4, 2009

MONTREAL Quebec’s Liberal government must stop uranium exploration near Sept Îles and declare a moratorium on uranium mining activities across the province to avoid the mass resignation of 20 doctors in the North Shore town, a Sept Îles doctor said Friday. Continue reading →

December 10, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Canada, health | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

FDA concerned about excess radiation in medical tomography

FDA issues radiation exposure guidelines WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (UPI) –– The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has issued interim recommendations to address concerns about excess radiation exposure in medical facilities. The FDA said its recommendations are part of an ongoing investigation into cases of excess radiation occurring during computed tomography perfusion brain imaging.

Federal officials issued an initial safety notification in October after learning of more than 200 patients who were exposed to excess radiation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles during an 18-month period. Officials said they have also received reports of possible excess radiation from other states……http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/08/FDA-issues-radiation-exposure-guidelines/UPI-49601260291456/

December 9, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Over-exposure to medical radiation

FDA says 50 more patients exposed to dangerous radiation at Los Angeles hospital

Health News 8 Dec 09 WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators have identified 50 more patients exposed to dangerous radiation levels from brain scans at a hospital in Los Angeles. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Americans complacent about depleted uranium in Iraq

The United States, its abandonment of law and worse Redress Information & Analysis By Christopher King 8 December 2009 – “………….America has surpassed the Nazis, however, in its use of depleted uranium munitions which have spread radioactivity that will last hundreds of thousands of years over wide areas of Iraq.
Cancers and birth defects directly attributable to this are now being seen in Iraq and will continue indefinitely, so it is likely that over time the Iraqi civilian death toll will exceed that of the Nazis. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, Iraq | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear plants make it imperative to stockpile thyroid drug

White House Is Urged to Help States With Nuclear Plants Stockpile Thyroid Drug

The New York Times By MATTHEW L. WALD

December 6, 2009

WASHINGTON — After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress passed a law instructing the federal government to help states build bigger stocks of a simple, cheap drug to protect people near nuclear power plants in the event of an accident or terrorist attack. Continue reading →

December 8, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Mammography cancer risk for young women

Radiation Exposure From Annual Mammography Increases Breast Cancer Risk in Young High-Risk Women Medscape Today Fran Lowry 3 Dec 09

December 2, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — The low doses of radiation associated with annual screening mammography could be placing high-risk women in even more jeopardy of developing breast cancer, Continue reading →

December 3, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Depleted uranium causing child cancers

Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies

The Washington Post By Suadad al-Salhy

Reuters
December 1, 2009 Incidences of cancer, deformed babies and other health problems have risen sharply, Iraqi officials say, and many suspect contamination from weapons used in years of war and accompanying unchecked pollution as a cause. Continue reading →

December 1, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, Iraq | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Cancer danger in abdominal CT scans

Abdominal CT scans overused – U.S. study By Julie Steenhuysen C HICAGO, Nov 30 (Reuters) – More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the long-term risk of cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Continue reading →

December 1, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health, USA | cancer, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | 1 Comment

Non radiation methods are safer than mammograms

Mammogram controversy and using safer alternatives for breast exams, Creative loafing November 24, 2009 by Carol Roberts
So what’s this about mammograms? The iconic breast screening exam has been called into question by a stellar panel from Harvard, Stanford and other such institutions who were tasked by the federal government to determine the efficacy and safety of the test. Continue reading →

November 25, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment

Soldiers’ cancer toll rising, from depleted uranium

How to get out of Afghanistan

History News Netwrk By William Polk22 Nov 09 “……Casualties we can count, but the number of seriously wounded keeps growing because many of the effects of exposure to modern weapons do not show up until later…… Cancer, from exposure to depleted uranium is, only now coming into full effect. 11 It is sobering that 40 percent of the soldiers who served in the 1991 Gulf war – which lasted only a hundred hours – are receiving disability payments. 12 Inevitably, more “boots on the ground” will lead to more beds in hospitals……………http://hnn.us/articles/120371.htm

November 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | health, USA | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Doctors to walk out in protest over uranium mine

Doctors threaten to leave over uranium mine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By Eric Tlozek Nov 20, 2009 group of Alice Springs doctors say they will leave the town if a uranium mine goes ahead in the area. Uranium company Cameco is exploring a uranium deposit 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs. Continue reading →

November 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, health | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Women warned on radiation hazard of mammograms

Repeated X-rays could lead to problems The Desert Sun •Diana Saunders November 19, 2009 In the debate about mammograms, a key word is missing: X-rays. Although mammograms are low-dose X-rays, they pose a small risk of radiation-induced cancer that increases with each mammogram. Continue reading →

November 20, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, health | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive | Leave a comment