Word: thyroids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group said it will continue to investigatea series of four thyroid experiments and a nuclearfallout experiment. Task force members refused torule out the possibility that subjects in theseexperiments had suffered health effects...
...task force said it had contacted about halfof the 74 subjects of the nutrition experiments atFernald and only a handful of the more than 200people used in the thyroid and nuclear falloutstudies...
...Many older women take thyroid pills because their bodies no longer produce the hormone. Yet the medication robs their bones of minerals. Doctors have now discovered that taking estrogen at the same time reduces the risk of osteoporosis...
High concentrations of the idodine-131 used inthe experiment can lead to thyroid cancer, Whalensaid...
...effort to shed light on past research projects at institutions run by the DMR. In connection with this effort, we recently became aware of an article published more than thirty years ago in Science magazine. ("Minimal dosage of Iodide Required To Suppress Uptake of Iodine-131 by Normal Thyroid," Science, October 19, 1962.) We in turn brought the article to the attention of the DMR Task Force, as part of our continuing effort to help the DMR in its work...