Vladimir Putin's recent threats of nuclear weapon use are deeply concerning. A nuclear war would have catastrophic ...

Sweden, Finland and Norway have advised citizens to keep iodine tablets at home in preparation for the worst-case scenario ...

Diagnosis of chronic sialadenitis can readily be accomplished when the patient's history of having received radioactive iodine is factored into the patient's clinical symptomatology. Computerized ...

Adjuvant radioactive iodine therapy is widely used to treat well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (WDTC), but is known to result in radiation absorption by the testes, the long-term effects of ...

Line Young Peteri told Newsweek: "Even if I feel like everything is exploding in my body, I will never ever stop." ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD A low-iodine diet is prescribed before diagnostic radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) tests and before radioactive iodine treatments. The RAIU test is an imaging scan ...

On raiding it, they found 13 playing cards laced with iodine-125, a substance used in medicine that has a half-life of 60 days. That means it stays radioactive for longer than most other types of ...

Shortly afterward, she saw endocrinologist Mara Roth, MD. “Typically with her stage of cancer, we’d recommend radioactive ...

US endocrinologists are favoring antithyroid drugs over radioactive iodine in initial Graves’ disease treatment, and new ...