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France: Academy of Medicine; Dec 4, 2001 Statement on Radiation Health Effects

American Nuclear Society - Position Statement #41[PDF 46KB]"Health Effects of Low Level Radiation," June 2001

Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at WPI
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Report by the Mass. Governor's Advisory Council on Radiation Protection
3rd Edition, March 2002


1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions


Balaram, P. and K. S. Mani (1994). "Low dose radiation--a curse or a boon?" Natl Med J India 7(4): 169-72.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]
Paper Summary/Data: [Summary]

Luckey, T. D. (1997). "Estimation of a Minimum Yearly Radiation Allowance (MYRA)." Journal of Clean Technology Environmental Toxicology and Occupational Medicine 6(3): 239-252.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions; 2.3.2.1 Worker vs. Worker Studies; 2.5.4.3 Kyshtym radioactive waste tank explosion
Web Abstract/link: Go to ISI://1997YK01200002
Paper Summary/Data: [Summary]

Luckey, T. D. (1999). "Nurture with ionizing radiation: a provocative hypothesis." Nutr Cancer 34(1): 1-11.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]Go to ISI://000081896500001

Luckey, T. D. (1999). Evidence of a requirement for radiation,. The Seventh International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE-7). Tokyo, Japan.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions; 3.2 Animal/Organism Biology Studies
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Rattan, S. I. (1998). "The nature of gerontogenes and vitagenes. Antiaging effects of repeated heat shock on human fibroblasts." Ann N Y Acad Sci 854: 54-60.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions; 3.3.3.1 Heat shock proteins and the general beneficial stress response
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]

Rattan, S. I. (2000). "Ageing, gerontogenes, and hormesis." Indian J Exp Biol 38(1): 1-5.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions; 3.3.3.1 Heat shock proteins and the general beneficial stress response
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]

Rossi, H. H. and M. Zaider (1997). "Radiogenic lung cancer: the effects of low doses of low linear energy transfer (LET) radiation." Radiat Environ Biophys 36(2): 85-8.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]
Paper Summary/Data: [Summary]

Rossi, H. H. (1999). "Risks from less than 10 millisievert,." Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 83,(4): 277-279.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions
Paper Summary/Data: [Summary]

van Wyngaarden, K. E. and E. K. Pauwels (1995). "Hormesis: are low doses of ionizing radiation harmful or beneficial?" Eur J Nucl Med 22(5): 481-6.
Topic Number(s): 1.3 Health Benefits: Increased Longevity, Reduced Disease and Enhanced Physiological Conditions
Web Abstract/link: [PubMed]
Paper Summary/Data: [Summary]

 

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