Radiation Exposure

• Latest News
• FDA Approves Drugs to Treat Internal Contamination from Radioactive Elements (08/11/2004, Food and Drug Administration)

• From the National Institutes of Health
• What We Know about Radiation (National Institutes of Health)

• Overviews
• Biological Effects of Radiation (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• How Does Radiation Affect the Public? (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• Ionizing Radiation. Part 1 (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Ionizing Radiation. Part 2 (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Understanding Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Understanding Radiation: Health Effects (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• What Are the Sources of Radiation? (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• What is Radiation? (Environmental Protection Agency)

• Pictures/Diagrams
• Symbols in Radiation Protection (Environmental Protection Agency)

• Treatment
• Facts about DTPA (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Facts about Neupogen® (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Frequently Asked Questions on Potassium Iodide (KI) (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Home Preparation Procedure for Emergency Administration of Potassium Iodide Tablets to Infants and Small Children (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)
• Medical Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome (American College of Physicians)
• Potassium Iodide (KI) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Potassium Iodide Pills: Protection against Radiation Exposure (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Prussian Blue (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Specific Conditions
• Are X-Rays Safe during Pregnancy? (American Academy of Family Physicians)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Consumer Products Containing Radioactive Materials (Health Physics Society) - Links to PDF File
• Depleted Uranium (DU) (Navy Environmental Health Center) - Links to PDF File
• Dirty Bombs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Food Irradiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Frequently Asked Questions on Cabinet X-Ray Systems (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• Irradiated Mail (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Microwave Oven Radiation (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• Nasopharyngeal Radium Irradiation (NRI) (National Cancer Institute)
• Natural Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Radiation Exposure in X-Ray Examinations (Radiological Society of North America)
• Radioactive Contamination and Radiation Exposure (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Radioactive I-131 from Fallout (National Cancer Institute)
• Smoke Detectors and Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency)
• TENORM-Technologically Enhanced, Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (Environmental Protection Agency)
• We Want You to Know about Television Radiation (Center for Devices and Radiological Health)
• X-Ray Radiation (Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction)

• Prevention/Screening
• Estimating Risk (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Radiation Protection Basics (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Sheltering in Place during a Radiation Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Understanding Radiation: Exposure Pathways (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)

• Related Issues
• Acute Radiation Syndrome (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Frequently Asked Questions about a Radiation Emergency (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Also available in: Spanish
• Man-Made Radiation: Medicine & Nuclear Power (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Man-Made Radiation: Radiological Emergencies (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Nuclear Blast (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Nuclear Power Plant Emergency (Federal Emergency Management Agency)
• Nuclear Radiation and the Thyroid (American Thyroid Association) - Links to PDF File
• Nuclear Terrorism & Health Effects (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

• Dictionaries/Glossaries
• Acronyms of Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)
• Glossary of Radiological Terms (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Terms of Radiation (Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation)

• Directories
• Radioactively Contaminated Superfund Sites (Environmental Protection Agency)

• Organizations
• Dept. of Homeland Security
• Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
  Also available in: Spanish
• National Center for Environmental Health
  Also available in: Spanish
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  Also available in: Spanish
• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Law and Policy
• Radiation Protection Roles (Environmental Protection Agency)

• Women
• Possible Health Effects of Radiation Exposure on Unborn Babies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  Also available in: Spanish

• Children
• What to Do If There Is a Nuclear or Radiological Attack (Federal Emergency Management Agency)