Radiation Death

The US Department of Homeland Security revealed to AFP on Tuesday new technical details regarding its highly anticipated study into how ultraviolet radiation destroys the new coronavirus, saying that its experiment had accurately mimicked natural sunlight.

Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book "A Brief History of Time," has died. He was 76. He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and was confined to an electric wheelchair for much of his adult life. Diagnosed at age 21, he was one of t...

"Reema ji used to live in a building bang opposite mine. On several occasions, I would wake up to find my wife, Aarti, waving out to Reema ji from our balcony. They conversed through gestures," reads Mohnish Bahl's tribute to Reema Lagoo

When exposed to cancer treatment like chemotherapy and radiation, brain and heart tissues in very young children are more prone to apoptosis or programmed cell death, researchers said.

Members of the successful Apollo space programme are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to a new study.

Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium.

The Indian Department of Atomic Energy has categorically denied the occurrence of any blasts or deaths at the Kudankulam nuclear plant site in southern India. Rumours are travelling faster than radiation, remarked an analyst.

Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, a Jordanian doctor claimed on Thursday. Arafat's medical reports suggest that he was poisoned by a toxic substance, but it was not examined at that time, Xinhua quoted Abdullah al-Basheer as saying.

Adam 'MCA' Yauch who was diagnosed with a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node in 2009 for which he underwent surgery passed away on Friday.

Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet against six Delhi University teachers in the Mayapuri radiation leak incident that killed one and affected 10 people last year. Six professors from the Chemistry Department - VS Parmar (Head of Department), AV Prasad, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar, Rita Kakkar and Rooplal - have been charged under section...

Describing the Delhi radiation death case as a "wake-up call," Kapil Sibal said the Centre was proposing a regulatory framework for educational institutions that deal with such material.

Doctors attending on radiation exposure patients at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi have given up hope after the death of one of the patients. Rajender, 35, a worker at a shop in Mayapuri scrap market, died at AIIMS on Monday. He was shifted there on April 13 from the DDU hospital, where he was initially admitted.

A man hospitalised after radiation exposure in the national capital earlier this month died due to multi-organ failure on Monday, doctors said.

The US Department of Homeland Security revealed to AFP on Tuesday new technical details regarding its highly anticipated study into how ultraviolet radiation destroys the new coronavirus, saying that its experiment had accurately mimicked natural sunlight.

Japan has acknowledged for the first time that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami more than seven years ago, died from radiation exposure.

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book "A Brief History of Time," has died. He was 76. He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and was confined to an electric wheelchair for much of his adult life. Diagnosed at age 21, he was one of t...

"Reema ji used to live in a building bang opposite mine. On several occasions, I would wake up to find my wife, Aarti, waving out to Reema ji from our balcony. They conversed through gestures," reads Mohnish Bahl's tribute to Reema Lagoo

When exposed to cancer treatment like chemotherapy and radiation, brain and heart tissues in very young children are more prone to apoptosis or programmed cell death, researchers said.

Members of the successful Apollo space programme are experiencing higher rates of cardiovascular problems thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, according to a new study.

Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium.

The Indian Department of Atomic Energy has categorically denied the occurrence of any blasts or deaths at the Kudankulam nuclear plant site in southern India. Rumours are travelling faster than radiation, remarked an analyst.

Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, a Jordanian doctor claimed on Thursday. Arafat's medical reports suggest that he was poisoned by a toxic substance, but it was not examined at that time, Xinhua quoted Abdullah al-Basheer as saying.

Adam 'MCA' Yauch who was diagnosed with a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node in 2009 for which he underwent surgery passed away on Friday.

Delhi Police has filed a chargesheet against six Delhi University teachers in the Mayapuri radiation leak incident that killed one and affected 10 people last year. Six professors from the Chemistry Department - VS Parmar (Head of Department), AV Prasad, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar, Rita Kakkar and Rooplal - have been charged under section...

Describing the Delhi radiation death case as a "wake-up call," Kapil Sibal said the Centre was proposing a regulatory framework for educational institutions that deal with such material.

Doctors attending on radiation exposure patients at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi have given up hope after the death of one of the patients. Rajender, 35, a worker at a shop in Mayapuri scrap market, died at AIIMS on Monday. He was shifted there on April 13 from the DDU hospital, where he was initially admitted.

A man hospitalised after radiation exposure in the national capital earlier this month died due to multi-organ failure on Monday, doctors said.