European stillbirth proportion and Chernobyl

European stillbirth proportions before and after the Chernobyl accident.

BACKGROUND Numerous investigations have been carried out concerning the possible impact of the Chernobyl accident, in April 1986, on the prevalence of anomalies at birth and on perinatal mortality. The accident has contaminated Eastern Europe more heavily than Western Europe. If there was an effect of the radioactive contamination on perinatal mortality or stillbirth proportions one would expec...

Stillbirth Understanding and Management

Chernobyl and thyroid cancer.

The most dramatic effect of exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl accident on physical health has been the increase in thyroid cancer. When this was first reported 1,2, there was scepticism in Europe and the US, as it was not thought plausible that exposure to radio-isotopes of iodine in fallout could lead to such an increase in thyroid cancer with such a short latency. This review will discus...

Closing Chernobyl

With the integration of the KEGG and Predictome databases as well as two search engines for coexpressed genes/proteins using data sets obtained from the Stanford Microarray Database (SMD) and Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, VisANT 3.0 supports exploratory pathway analysis, which includes multi-scale visualization of multiple pathways, editing and annotating pathways using a KEGG compati...

Chernobyl Accident: Exposures and Effects

Burton Bennett, André Bouville, Per Hall, Mikhail Savkin, Hans Storm 1 United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria 2 National Cancer Institute, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, EPS-7094, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA 3 Department of Medical Epidemiology, Karolinska Institute, S-17177 Stockholm, Sweden 4 State ...