Article: GAS WARNING FOR SURGEONS; Operating theatres' staff scare.

Article: Downwinders may have a new worry: genetic damage.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  June 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Downwinders may have a new worry: genetic damage. A study of New Zealand Navy veterans ... atomic fallout found a striking rate of genetic damage, the kind that can cause cancer ... for the ability of the body to repair genetic damage, and in these tests there was no difference ...

Article: Genetic damage found among N-test veterans.
PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association;  September 23, 2005 ;     579 words ... ... veterans have suffered long-term genetic damage from their exposure to explosions nearly ... that the veterans have experienced genetic damage as a consequence of taking part in ... existed between radiation exposure, genetic damage and various cancers, especially blood ...

Article: Of mice and mills; Study linking emissions, genetic ...
Waste News;  December 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... correlation between steel mill emissions and genetic damage in mice, a finding that has drawn ... concludes that the mice inherited the genetic damage almost entirely from their fathers ... emissions from the steel mills created the genetic damage, Huxley said. The researchers ...

Article: Occupational Exposure to Lead and Induction of Genetic ...
Environmental Health Perspectives;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... sampling periods, and we measured genetic damage as increases in the frequency of binucleated ... found significant differences in the genetic damage induction. We conclude that exposure ... blood lead level is a good indicator of genetic damage induction. Key words: biomonitoring ...

Article: Veterans' fears confirmed; Agent Orange 'did genetic ...
The Press;  July 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... in Vietnam suffered three times the genetic damage of those present during nuclear tests ... after it found significant levels of genetic damage. Canterbury Returned Services Association ... said the report showed levels of genetic damage that were three times higher than for ...

Article: GENETIC DAMAGE LINKED TO FALLOUT FROM ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 25, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Ukraine, scientists report that they have found inherited genetic damage in people exposed to the fallout. Such damage has not been ... from the accident. The most striking finding was that the genetic damage took the form of so-called germline mutations: changes ...

Article: Genetic damage is tied to sooty air
Daily Breeze;  May 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON -- Sooty air pollution can cause genetic damage that can be passed along to offspring, Canadian researchers ... evidence that any air pollutant might cause the kind of genetic damage that can be inherited -- until Canadian scientists ...