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Boao Forum focus: China eyes breakthrough cancer treatment

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Phone radiation has been a topic of debate in China for years

Afewdaysago,theCaliforniaDepartmentofPublicHealth(CDPH)issuedaguidelinewarningusersaboutthesafetyhazardsofcellphoneradiation,launchinganotherwaveofdebateoverthe

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China's tests show no environmental impact from DPRK nuclear test

ChinahasendeditsemergencyradiationmonitoringafterdetectingnoenvironmentalimpactfromthenucleartestconductedbytheDemocraticPeople'sRepublicofKorea(DPRK)onSeptembe

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Questions and answers on the new study linking cellphones and cancer in rats

The preliminary study, released Friday, found that radiation from cellphones appears to have increased the risks that male rats developed tumors in their brains and hearts.

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Japan should learn lessons from Chernobyl -- Russian expert

​The improper handling of the Fukushima aftermath by the Japanese government has had grave consequences and that's partly attributed to the fact that Japan didn't learn lessons from the Chernobyl tragedy, a Russian radiation expert has said.

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Five years on, Fukushima remains shrouded in untold stories

​In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture stands a big radiation measuring device. On its spotless dashboard flashes a red number: 0.38 microsieverts/hour.

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China ends emergency monitoring following DPRK nuclear test

The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has ended the emergency radiation monitoring following the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying the test had no impact on China.

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Complex heart imaging tests may up children's lifetime cancer risk

Children undergoing complex imaging tests like computed tomography (CT) scans for heart problems may have higher cancer risks over their lifetime

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Crews re-enter U.S. nuke dump after radiation leak

Crews have made their first trip into an underground nuclear waste repository in the U.S. state of New Mexico where a radiation leak had contaminated 21 workers and shut down the facility for nearly seven weeks, U.S. media reported Thursday.

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S. Korea bans imports of all fishery products from Fukushima region

South Korea on Friday banned imports of all marine products from Japan's Fukushima region, which has been suspected of leaking hundreds of tons of radioactive water every day.

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U.S. researchers calculate radiation exposure of Mars mission

U.S. researchers have made detailed measurements of the radiation hazards associated with a trip that's long been the subject of science fiction: a manned mission to Mars.

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China's environment unaffected by DPRK nuclear test so far

No artificial radioactive nuclides had been detected in northeast China as of 11 a.m. Thursday, according to the country's environmental watchdog.