Word: thyroid
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...produce nuclear energy, huge amounts of carbon dioxide are released into the environment. Furthermore, even during normal operation, power plants emit radioactive particles, including gases such as krypton, xenon, tritium, and argon, all of which can cause genetic diseases and gene mutations, not to mention iodine-131 (which causes thyroid cancer), strontium-90 (which causes leukemia and bone cancer), and cesium-137 (which causes muscle cancer). Then, of course, there is plutonium-239, which is so toxic that just one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. The United States has over 100 nuclear reactors, each of which produce about...
...litigating-or settling out of court-the remaining cases. "What I see as important," said Wright, "is that in all of the leukemia cases we tried, the court ruled for us. And in two of the tumor cases, he ruled for us. So in the case of leukemia, thyroid and breast cancers, the judge seems to be saying that there is enough evidence to show that radiation was responsible...
...hypnosedated patients suffer fewer side effects than fully sedated ones do. According to Faymonville, hypnotized patients can get by on less than 1% of the standard medications required for general anesthesia, thus avoiding such aftereffects as nausea, fatigue, lack of coordination and cognitive impairment. In a 1999 study of thyroid patients, Faymonville found that the typical hypnosedated patient returned to work 15 days after surgery, compared with 28 days for a fully anesthetized patient...
...School (HBS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG)—is the executive director of the graduate group Mountains for Miracles. He will lead their expedition. Serafini said he was motivated by his sister’s recovery from cancer. “My kid sister had thyroid cancer this past June and it opened my eyes to how prevalent cancer is in our society...how many [people] it affects and how heartbreaking it is,” he said. “I decided to combine it with mountaineering...with something really grand.” Serafini...
...contrary. We've got plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically, becomes temporarily radioactive after treatment for thyroid cancer. This "lit-up leper" is a menace to his young son and his wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family...