1 Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Diabetology, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan 2 Radiation Medical Science Center for the Fukushima Health Management Survey, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan 3 Department of Epidemiology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan 4 Department of Pediatrics, Fukush...

1) Fukushima Agricultural Technology Centre, 116 Shimonakamichi, Takakura-aza, Hiwada-machi, Koriyama-shi, Fukushima 9630531, Japan 2) Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization, Fukushima University, 1 Kanayagawa, Fukushima 9601296, Japan 3) Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, 1-7 Ienomae, Obuchi, Rokkasho, Aomori 0393212, Japan *[email protected]...

Takeshi Shimizu, Akiomi Yoshihisa, Yuki Kanno, Mai Takiguchi, Akihiko Sato, Shunsuke Miura, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Takashi Owada, Satoshi Abe, Takamasa Sato, Satoshi Suzuki, Masayoshi Oikawa, Takayoshi Yamaki, Koichi Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kunii, Kazuhiko Nakazato, Hitoshi Suzuki, Shu-ichi Saitoh, and Yasuchika Takeishi Department of Cardiology and Hematology, Fukushima Medical Univers...

In response to contamination from the recent Fukushima nuclear accident, we conducted radionuclide analysis on bamboos sampled from six sites within a 25 to 980 km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Maximum activity concentrations of radiocesium (134)Cs and (137)Cs in samples from Fukushima city, 65 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, were in excess of 71 and 79 kBq/kg, ...

A doctor conducts a thyroid examination on 4-year-old Maria Sakamoto, brought by her mother to the office of Iwaki Radiation Citizen Centre, south of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The not-for-profit organisation offers free thyroid examinations for children from Fukushima. As the World Health Organization says children in Fukushima may have a higher risk of develop...

The 5th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster and the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the two most catastrophic nuclear accidents in history, both occurred recently. Images of Chernobyl are replete with the international sign of radioactive contamination (a circle with three broad spokes radiating outward in a yellow sign). In contrast, ongoing decontamination efforts at Fukushima l...

Relationship of hyperuricemia with mortality in heart failure patients 1 with preserved ejection fraction 2 3 Takeshi Shimizu, Akiomi Yoshihisa*, Yuki Kanno, Mai Takiguchi, Akihiko 4 Sato, Shunsuke Miura, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Takashi Owada, 5 Satoshi Abe1, Takamasa Sato1, Satoshi Suzuki1,2, Masayoshi Oikawa1, Takayoshi 6 Yamaki, Koichi Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Kunii, Kazuhiko Nakazato,...

In April 2012 we carried out a 1-year hematological study on a population of wild Japanese monkeys inhabiting the forest area of Fukushima City. This area is located 70 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which released a large amount of radioactive material into the environment following the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. For comparison, we examined monkeys inhabitin...

the huge earthquake in 11 march 2012 which followed by a destructive tsunami in japan was largest recorded earthquake in the history. japan is pioneer in disaster management, especially earthquakes. how this developed country faced this disaster, which had significant worldwide effects? the humanitarian behavior of the japanese people amazingly wondered the word's media, meanwhile the managemen...

There are errors in the values for LARS for thyroid cancer throughout the paper. Please see below for a description of the errors and their corrections. There are errors in the last two sentences of the Abstract. The correct sentences are: Lifetime attributable risks (LARs) of thyroid cancers due to ingestion were 1.7–37×10 (Case 1) and 5.6–79×10 (Case 2) in Fukushima City, 0.73–13×10 in Tokyo,...