Spotlight Archives

• RPHP Recognizes Several Of Its Most Dedicated Supporters At Its Annual 2008 Meeting
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• RPHP publishes an article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists concerning inadequate Three Mile Island health research.
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• RPHP announces beginning of teeth study near Three Mile Island.
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• RPHP Researchers featured in new award-winning documentary "Fatal Fallout"
  
  
• Read Alec Baldwin's letter giving his support to The Tooth Fairy Project.
  
  
• Read Patch Adam's letter where he "wholeheartedly endorses the work of the Radiation and Public Health Project."
  
  
• Want to know the results of the Tooth Study Where You Live? Look up average SR-90 tooth concentrations by location.
  
  
• See how local infant deaths and childhood cancer decline after nuclear reactors close.
  
  
• Be sure and check out our list of publications by clicking here or on the "Reading Room" menu item.
  
  
• Using Baby Teeth as a Geiger Counter
  By ANDY NEWMAN
  New York Times article about about our work published on the front page of the Metro Section - November 11th, 2003.
  
  
• An unexpected rise in Strontium-90 in U.S. deciduous teeth in the 1990s
  by Joseph Mangano
  Published 30 December 2003 in The Science of The Total Environment.
  
  
• The South Florida Baby Teeth and Cancer Case Study
  was officially released April 9th, 2003. The Study finds that infants and children are especially vulnerable to cancer caused by federally-permitted radiation releases from nuclear reactors such as the Turkey Point and St. Lucie nuclear power plants, located in southeast Florida.
  
  
• Dr. Janette Sherman's editorial, published in the New York Times, discusses serious omissions in the National Cancer
  Institute's study of breast cancer in Long Island women.
  
  
• Research Associate Janette Sherman, M.D. spoke at the
  Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition October 6, 2004. For more information click here.
  
  
• Read about RPHP in The May/June 2002 issue of E: The Environmental Magazine
  Glowing in the Dark Baby Teeth Studies Reveal Childhood Radiation Exposure
  By Joni Praded
  
  
• Infant Deaths and Childhood Cancer Drop Dramatically After Nuclear Plants Close
  Long-term health benefits provide another reason to end experiment with nuclear power.

  [November 30, 2001, New York, NY]  Dramatic declines in local infant death and childhood cancer rates occurred soon after the closing
  of eight nuclear power plants, according to a new report announced by New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, Radiation and Public
  Health Project, and the STAR Foundation. The study documents a 17.4% reduction in infant mortality in the downwind counties within
  40 miles two years after reactor closing, compared to a national decline of just 6.4%

• The biggest energy news story of 2001, completely ignored by US mainstream media, is perhaps an article appearing in
  The New Scientist on Dec. 15 2001.
  Read Dr. Gould's review

• Read an article and two charts by Dr. Gould showing 20 Million Premature US Deaths Since 1950.
  
  
• Media coverage of our St. Louis Teath Study
  Dr. Gould was interviewed on November 9th by Noah Adams, a senior host of National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
  Here Dr. Gould spoke about the importance of the newly discovered 85,000 St. Louis baby teeth.
  If You have Real Player, click here to listen to this interview.
  
  Op-ed article by Dr. Gould in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:: Tooth donors need a checkup.
  
  
• Read our Comment Statement to the NRC Regarding Re-licensing of Turkey Point 3 and 4 Reactors.
  
  
• Read Alec Baldwin's letter to find out why he supports The Tooth Fairy Project.
  
  
• Environmental Radiation from Nuclear Reactors and Increasing Children's Cancer in Southeastern Florida
  A Special Report on the Florida Baby Tooth Study
  March 28, 2001.
  
  
• Read media coverage of our Miami Press Conference:
  Sun-Sentinal
  Local 10
  BBC News
  
  
• Read Dr. Gould's letter and replies in the March 25th issue of The Nation
  

• On November 29th, Alec Baldwin hosted a reception for the Radiation and Public Health Project at the Harmony Club in Manhattan where the first annual Public Health Award was given to Dr. Gould.
  Read a more complete report on this event, including the complete text of Dr. Sternglass' remarks upon this occasion.
  

• Westchester Becomes Second County to Fund RPHP Baby Tooth Project
  Read the media coverage of our presentation to the Westchester County Legislature Health Committee: A Study Comparing Radioactive
  Strontium-90 In Baby Teeth With Cancer Rates In Westchester County, Thursday November 2nd, 2000
  
  - Westchester Weekly
  - The NY Journal News
  - Press Release
  - Media Advisory
  - Statement of Support from U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)
  
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