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Harvard University Press by Frank Pasquale, published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Used by permission. All rights reserved. We might once have categorized a melanoma simply as a type of skin cancer. But that is beginning to seem as outdated as calling pneumonia, bronchitis, and hay fever “cough.” Personalized medicine will help more oncologists gain a more sophisticated understanding of a given cancer as, say, one of a number of mutations. If they are properly combined, compared, and analyzed, digitiz...
Meanwhile, in this country, a radiation monitor in sacramento detected a plume of trace amounts of radioactive material from that fukushima plant. health officials were quick to say the amounts are so tiny, they pose no danger to the west coast, but the findings are the latest with several states detecting minuscule amounts of radiation from japan. joining me now, dr. james thrall from the department of radiology. >> good morning. >> we hear the risks of the radiation from the japanese crisis are minimal. is that the case really? >> in my opinion that is the case. we have to remember that we a...
At chernobyl, people got sick because radio active particles got into the food supply. the food chain. cows consume contaminated grass and water and then thousands of children ended up drinking milk from those cows. they came down with thyroid cancer. something else to keep in mind in terms of overall exposure. you see the pictures, the devastate there. well, dr. james thrall explains they are not atomic explosions and that does make a difference. >> nuclear reactors are not designed show that they can even explode the way the bomb does. >> you know, we think of japan, think of hiroshima, thos...