medicaltreatment:radiation

Gaza Cancer Rates on Rise
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/03/cancer-rates-soar-gaza-war.html

Dr. Khalid Thabet, head of the Oncology Department at the government-run Shifa Hospital, said in a meeting with Al-Monitor that he expects the rate of cancer patients to double over the next five years in the Gaza Strip, due to the uranium used by Israel in its attacks against the Gaza Strip during the 2008-2009 war.
While Israel denied in Jan. 2009 that it had used depleted uranium in its offensive in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by French NGO Action of Civilians for Nuclear Disarmament (ACDN) shortly after the war found the use of depleted uranium “highly probable.”

"After several months of investigation carried out in close liaison with the people concerned and with the help of Jean-François Fechino, a consultant on diffuse pollution and an expert accredited to the UN Environment Program (UNEP). ACDN ... produced a 33-page report concluding that the presence of dozens of tonnes of Depleted Uranium (perhaps as much as 75 tonnes) in the soil and subsoil of Gaza is highly probable.

“In April 2009, a four-person mission including Jean-François Fechino went to Gaza under the auspices of the Arab Commission for Human Rights. The samples of earth and dust that they brought back from Gaza were then analysed by a specialist laboratory, which found in them elements of depleted uranium (which is radioactive, carcinogenic, teratogenic), particles of cesium (which is radioactive and carcinogenic), asbestos dust (which is carcinogenic), volatile organic compounds (VOCs, which are fine particles which endanger health, especially the health of children, asthmatics and old people), phosphates (from oxidation of white phosphorus), tungsten (which is carcinogenic), copper, aluminium oxide (which is carcinogenic), and thorium oxide (ThO2, which is radioactive).”

#Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increase in #obesity among children | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/27/fukushima-radiation-child-obesity-fears

Lingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amount of time they spend outdoors.

#santé #nucléaire #cdp

À Fallujah, un quart des bébés meurent avant leur première semaine, et les trois quarts de ces bébés morts souffraient de déformations. Et plus de cancers, de leucémies et de mortalité infantile qu’à Hiroshima and Nagasaki en 1945. The moral equivalent of Nuremberg - Robert Koehler
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/sns-201210171700--tms--rkoehlerctnbk-a20121018-20121018,0,3103148.co

The recent study focused on the cities of Basra and Fallujah, where serious fighting occurred during the war. Fallujah was the scene of two large, extremely destructive coalition assaults in 2004. Five years later, doctors at Fallujah General Hospital finally became so alarmed by the increase in birth defects they petitioned the United Nations to investigate, explaining in a letter: “In September 2009, (the hospital) had 170 newborn babies, 24 percent of whom were dead within the first seven days (and) a staggering 75 percent of the dead babies were classified as deformed.” In comparison, their letter stated, in August 2002, before the invasion, 530 babies were born; six of them died within the first week, with a single birth defect reported.

About eight months later, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published the results of an epidemiological study, which found that Fallujah was experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia and infant mortality than Hiroshima and Nagasaki did in 1945.

Nuclear veterans win access to records that ‘didn’t exist’ | Scotsman
http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/health/nuclear-veterans-win-access-to-records-that-didn-t-exist-1-2475652

A SCOTTISH veteran of 1950s nuclear tests has won a legal victory to force the Ministry of Defence to release radiation exposure records.

David Whyte witnessed five nuclear blasts in the Pacific and says the radiation robbed him of the chance of ever starting a family.

(...) he was told for years by the MoD that they did not have information on the radiation levels he was exposed to when he served in the army on Christmas Island.

#santé #nucléaire #armée #mensonges

The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html

The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly

Atsuki Hiyama,
Chiyo Nohara,
Seira Kinjo,
Wataru Taira,
Shinichi Gima,
Akira Tanahara
& Joji M. Otaki

Scientific Reports
2,
Article number:
570

Received
06 June 2012
Accepted
24 July 2012
Published
09 August 2012

The collapse of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant caused a massive release of radioactive materials to the environment. A prompt and reliable system for evaluating the biological impacts of this accident on animals has not been available. Here we show that the accident caused physiological and genetic damage to the pale grass blue Zizeeria maha, a common lycaenid butterfly in Japan.

Vast Effort by FDA Spied on E-Mails of Its Own Scientists
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/12421-vast-effort-by-fda-spied-on-e-mails-of-its-own-scientists

The agency, using so-called spy software designed to help employers monitor workers, captured screen images from the government laptops of the five scientists as they were being used at work or at home. The software tracked their keystrokes, intercepted their personal e-mails, copied the documents on their personal thumb drives and even followed their messages line by line as they were being drafted, the documents show.

The extraordinary #surveillance effort grew out of a bitter dispute lasting years between the scientists and their bosses at the F.D.A. over the scientists’ claims that faulty review procedures at the agency had led to the approval of medical imaging devices for mammograms and colonoscopies that exposed patients to dangerous levels of radiation.

#santé #whistle-blowers via @opironet

Report : 32% of young white women do indoor tanning
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-05-11/young-women-tanning-beds/54875904/1

Despite years of warning about the hazards, about a third of young white women use indoor tanning equipment, increasing their risk of deadly skin cancer, says a study out today. It’s the first major federal assessment of indoor tanning use in more than a decade.

The data, published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are based on findings from interviews with about 25,000 adults in the National Health Interview Survey. CDC did the report in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute.

@beautefatale
#cancer #bronzage

Tiny Puddle-Dwelling Beasties and Their Eggs Might Survive Interplanetary Travel | 80beats | Discover Magazine
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/04/16/tiny-puddle-dwelling-beasties-and-their-eggs-might-survive-i

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2012/04/Hypsibiusdujardini.jpg

The microscopic animals called water bears already have quite a number of accomplishments under their belts. In experiments, they’ve survived the vacuum of space, large doses of radiation, extreme heat, extreme cold, and extreme pressure, giving scientists cause to believe that the little guys could potentially live on other planets and weather long journeys across space (they also make for great tattoos).

Harms of Post-9/11 Airline Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/03/harms_of_post-9.html

He wants us to trust that a 400-ml bottle of liquid is dangerous, but transferring it to four 100-ml bottles magically makes it safe. He wants us to trust that the butter knives given to first-class passengers are nevertheless too dangerous to be taken through a security checkpoint. He wants us to trust the no-fly list: 21,000 people so dangerous they’re not allowed to fly, yet so innocent they can’t be arrested. He wants us to trust that the deployment of expensive full-body scanners has nothing to do with the fact that the former secretary of homeland security, Michael Chertoff, lobbies for one of the companies that makes them. He wants us to trust that there’s a reason to confiscate a cupcake (Las Vegas), a 3-inch plastic toy gun (London Gatwick), a purse with an embroidered gun on it (Norfolk, VA), a T-shirt with a picture of a gun on it (London Heathrow) and a plastic lightsaber that’s really a flashlight with a long cone on top (Dallas/Fort Worth).

HOWTO get metal through a TSA full-body scanner - Boing Boing
http://boingboing.net/2012/03/07/howto-get-metal-through-a-tsa.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEoc_1ZkfA

DHS’ X-ray scanners could be cancer risk to border crossers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57358146-281/dhs-x-ray-scanners-could-be-cancer-risk-to-border-crossers

Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their occupants, are raising new health and privacy concerns, CNET has learned.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/01/12/portal01.jpg

How Doctors Die
http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus

Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people. That’s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars a day. What it buys is misery we would not inflict on a terrorist. I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.”

CPR : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9animation_cardio-pulmonaire

#santé, #hôpital et acharnement thérapeutique en fin de vie ; article pas rigolo mais intelligent (via Nathan Geffen)

Chernobyl still a disaster area 25 years on - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201111240009

Raw milk that has radiation exceeding the government standard is processed into butter if the level falls within a certain range. The butter is also checked for radiation.

Research has shown that while 80 percent of strontium and cesium is transferred to powdered skim milk, only 1 to 4 percent of those radioactive materials are transferred to butter.

#nucléaire #cuisine

Chernobyl | Paul Fusco (Magnum In Motion)
►http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/chernobyl

Over twenty years have passed since the meltdown at Chernobyl. Paul Fusco faces the dark legacy of the modern technological nightmare that continues to plague those exposed to its destructive radiation. (...) Source: Magnum In Motion

How Tanning Changes the Brain - NYTimes.com
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/how-tanning-changes-the-brain

Scientists have suspected for some time that frequent exposure to ultraviolet radiation has the potential to become addictive
(...) the research was inspired by a colleague, based on her experiences with dermatology patients. “She approached me because of her concern about young adults who were coming to see her with these beautiful bronze tans,” he said. “And she would cut out skin cancers, and they would immediately go back to tanning.”

#addiction #cancer #bronzage #santé

British nuclear test veterans take cancer claims to supreme court | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/28/nuclear-bomb-test-veterans-at-supreme-court

Veterans of Britain’s 1950s nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean and Australia who claim their cancers and illnesses were caused by radiation have defeated Ministry of Defence attempts to have the case thrown out of court.

#nucléaire #militaire #santé
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/7/28/1311856735189/bomb-test-007.jpg

Nuclear plant workers suffer internal radiation exposure after visiting Fukushima - The Mainichi Daily News
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110521p2a00m0na021000c.html

Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told the House of Representatives Budget Committee on May 16 that there were a total of 4,956 cases of workers suffering from internal exposure to radiation at nuclear power plants in the country excluding the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, and 4,766 of them involved workers originally from Fukushima who had visited the prefecture after the nuclear crisis. Terasaka revealed the data in his response to a question from Mito Kakizawa, a lawmaker from Your Party.

#nucléaire #Fukushima

Scientists Cast Doubt on #TSA Tests of Full-Body #Scanners - ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/article/scientists-cast-doubt-on-tsa-tests-of-full-body-scanners

But some scientists with expertise in imaging and #cancer say the evidence made public to support those claims [of safety]. And in a new letter sent to White House science adviser John Holdren, they question why the TSA won’t make the scanners available for independent testing by outside scientists.

#santé #sécurité #anti-terrorisme #cdp

Il faut lire la page de Wikipédia consacrée aux « Conséquences sanitaires de la catastrophe de Tchernobyl » :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conséquences_sanitaires_de_la_catastrophe_de_Tchernobyl

Combien de morts ? Peut-être 50 (selon la police), ou alors 4.000, ou bien 9.000, ou encore 60.000 (selon les organisateurs).

Pour ce gugusse d’Oxford (cité par Maître Éolas sur Twitter) : 43.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12860842

And Chernobyl? The latest UN report published on 28 February confirms the known death toll - 28 fatalities among emergency workers, plus 15 fatal cases of child thyroid cancer - which would have been avoided if iodine tablets had been taken (as they have now in Japan).

Bon, alors, 43 ou 60.000 ? Pourquoi tout ce brave monde n’expédie pas ses enfants faire les « liquidateurs » à Fukushima : c’est moins dangereux que de prendre le métro à Paris, et c’est super bien payé. Pour un jeune, c’est un stage d’été carrément épatant.

Fear of Japan’s nuclear crisis far exceeds actual risks, say scientists - CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0317/Fear-of-Japan-s-nuclear-crisis-far-exceeds-actual-risks-say-scientists

Le Christian Science Monitor, d’habitude mieux inspiré, se lance dans un article visant à relativiser la peur du #nucléaire ; avec des arguments du genre « c’est moins grave que Tchernobyl » ; « et même #Tchernobyl, finalement, c’était pas si grave que ça »

Consider other industrial disasters, such as the 1984 leak of methyl isocyanate at a Union Carbide plan in #Bhopal, India that killed some 20,000 people. It is one of many #industrial disasters known by doctors to have directly killed thousands of people.

“Chernobyl was bad,” says Bushberg. “[But] in the general category of industrial disasters… no, it wasn’t so bad. Certainly one could quickly find industrial accidents that have resulted in much more serious affects than Chernobyl.”

Conclusion :

When it comes to nuclear power, says Bushberg of the University of California, “there is a lot of misinformation.”

sans déconner…

World map of The Penis Size Worldwide (country) by Country - TargetMap
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=3073

#penis #carte