Emerging evidence also suggests that it binds with radioactive isotopes and may be useful for
radioactivity exposure or radiation therapy.
Not exact matches
Breastfeeding is contraindicated in infants with classic galactosemia (galactose 1 - phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency) 103; mothers who have active untreated tuberculosis disease or are human T - cell lymphotropic virus type I — or II — positive104, 105; mothers who are receiving diagnostic or therapeutic radioactive isotopes or have had
exposure to radioactive materials (for as long as there is
radioactivity in the milk) 106 — 108; mothers who are receiving antimetabolites or chemotherapeutic agents or a small number of other medications until they clear the milk109, 110; mothers who are using drugs of abuse («street drugs»); and mothers who have herpes simplex lesions on a breast (infant may feed from other breast if clear of lesions).
Chesser says some of his group's studies of mice exposed to
radioactivity around Chernobyl hint at hormesis: Small
exposures over 10 to 45 days, they found, appeared to temper damage from an acute radiation dose delivered in the lab later.
And then there's the extreme
radioactivity of the waste, which is far too high for direct human
exposure.
«Our glucose MRI does not require any
radioactivity and therefore does not involve any radiation
exposure for the patient,» said Paech, who is the first author of the publication.
The review did not calculate how much
radioactivity people may be exposed to, even though such calculations are routinely completed by scientists studying radiation
exposure.
The report accuses the company of having broken international regulations on the
exposure of workers to
radioactivity and quartz dust, and alleges inadequate health monitoring, environmental mismanagement and misleading its workforce and the press.
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exposure to
radioactivity or nuclear perils.