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"A British man has become the first person in the world to undergo heart surgery using radiation. "
Low dose radiation 'harms heart' - BBC Health News 22nd October 2009
"Low doses of radiation can cause cardiovascular disease, according to work carried out by mathematicians at Imperial College.
They have constructed a model which suggests that the risk would increase as the dose increases. "
Coroner to investigate cancer death cluster around historic nuclear lab - The Independent on Sunday 18th October 2009
"An inquest is to be opened into the deaths of two Manchester University academics who died of pancreatic cancer after working for years in the building where Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear"
Relatives criticise uni radiation probe - Manchester Evening News 14th October 2009
"RELATIVES of staff who occupied the former labs of a nuclear pioneer have criticised a report which ruled out a radiation scare.
A cluster of cancers cases alarmed staff at the Manchester University building where Ernest Rutherford carried out atomic tests.
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Brain scans disaster at celebrity hospital - The Independent on Sunday 11th October 2009
"With a patients' roll call that reads like an Oscars' party guest list, Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre is used to making the headlines. But the hospital has found itself making them for the wrong reasons this weekend after it admitted exposing more than 200 of its patients to excessively high doses of radiation from CT brain scans. "
Uni cancer deaths not linked to radiation - Manchester Evening News 30th September 2009
"THE cancer deaths of six former University of Manchester employees was not due to radiation contamination, an independent report has concluded.
Professor David Coggon said he was 'pretty confident' there were only 'small' health risks to people who worked in a building at the university where Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford carried out atomic experiments."
'No atomic link' in cancer deaths - BBC Health News 30th September 2009
"The deaths of six people who worked in a University of Manchester building at the centre of a contamination probe were "coincidence", a report has found.
All six had worked in the Rutherford Building, where scientists carried out experiments on atomic structure at the beginning of the 20th Century. "
Sellafield panic was just an exercise! - Carlisle News & Star 26th September 2009
It’s 9am on a cloudy morning in September and reports of an incident at Sellafield begin filtering through to journalists.
Revolutionary care: Castro's doctors give hope to the children of Chernobyl - The Guardian 2nd July 2009
Young victims continue to receive treatment in Cuba two decades after Ukrainian nuclear disaster
Legacy of the Chernobyl disaster - The Guardian 2nd July 2009
Exposure to radiation in an incident like the 1986 Chernobyl disaster ruins the health of several generations of people, not just those who lived in the vicinity at the time.
"The effects of Chernobyl on human health will continue for many years to come in the form of anything from an abnormal limb to an extremely severe cancer," explained Dr Tony Nicholson, the vice-president of the Royal College of Radiologists and dean of its clinical radiology faculty.
France offers nuclear test money - BBC Health News 24th March 2009
France is to compensate people who suffered health problems as a result of three decades of nuclear weapons tests.
France carried out more than 200 tests, firstly in Algeria and later in French Polynesia, between 1966 and 1996.
Bitter pill to swallow - Carlisle News & Star 17th March 2009
SOME residents of Barrow Island haven’t quite got the hang of what to do with the potassium iodate tablets which they have been given to reduce the effects of radiation in the event of a nuclear hiccup.
The chances of a Chernobyl-style glitch are fairly remote.
But it’s always better to be safe than sorry where nuclear reactors are concerned.
Iodate tablets for residents - Carlisle News & Star 6th March 2009
TABLETS to combat the effects of radiation are being issued to people in Barrow ahead of the switch on of the reactor of a nuclear submarine.
The reactor switch on is the first in the town for ten years.
Virus-busting radiation beam offers hope to flu sufferers - THe Independent 14th February 2009
Scientists have developed a technique for studying one of mankind's oldest enemies – the virus – which could help them treat some of the most difficult and intractable infections in the world.
Viral infections, from influenza to Ebola, have proven to be difficult or impossible to treat effectively because most modern drugs, apart from some vaccines, are ineffective.
Dr Tom Smith answers your questions - The Guardian 31st January 2009
What is your view on the dangers of living near high-power radio, telephone or television transmitter masts? One has been erected less than a quarter of a mile from us, and we have three young children. Should we move for their sake?
Merseyside N-test veterans in MoD compensation claim - Liverpool Daily Post 21st January 2009
THE Ministry of Defence begins a legal bid today to derail High Court compensation claims by 1,000 nuclear test veterans, including seven from Merseyside.
The claims relate to bomb testing in mainland Australia and its island territories by the MoD at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s.
Veterans who served in the Army, Royal Navy and Air Force, as well as New Zealand and Fijian claimants, are involved in the landmark compensation case.
Bomb test 'guinea pigs' fight for redress in court - The Guardian 22nd January 2009
Thousands of British servicemen were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation during nuclear tests in the 1950s due to the "cavalier attitude" of their commanders, the high court was told yesterday.
The case linking exposure to radiation during the tests, carried out between 1952 and 1958 in the South Pacific and Australia, and subsequent illnesses including cancer, was now conclusive, and the government should provide compensation, said Ben Browne QC, representing 998 ex-servicemen present at the tests.
Nuclear veterans 'merit pay-out' - BBC Health News 21st January 2009
Britain is out of step with governments around the world who have compensated nuclear test veterans who fell ill, the High Court has heard.
Benjamin Browne QC, representing 1,000 ex-servicemen, said science has made a link between health and their role in the 1950s tests in the South Pacific.
Former occupant of Rutherford's nuclear laboratory becomes latest to develop cancer - The Guardian 13th January 2009
Former occupant of Rutherford's nuclear laboratory becomes latest to develop cancer. Francis Beckett reports
Risks of natural killer radon are ignored, warns study - The Independent 7th January 2009
More than 1,000 people are dying every year from a poison gas which seeps out of the ground because current building guidelines are not stringent enough, researchers warn.
The gas is called radon and it leaks naturally out of the rock on which most of Great Britain and Europe stands. It is a chemically-inert pollutant produced by the radioactive decay of uranium-238, which is present throughout the Earth's crust.
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