The health effects of radon are harmful, and include an increased chance of lung cancer. Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas...

policy-oriented estimates. Significant uncertainties exist for the health effects of low-dose exposures. Radon is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas and therefore...

supplies. Radon is a significant contributor to environmental radioactivity and indoor air pollution. Exposure to radon can cause serious health problems...

negative effects on human health. Smoking and smokeless tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. As many as half of people...

their use for "public health ... purposes" be phased out by 31 December 1985. Computational human phantom Health effects of radon Radiation dose reconstruction...

BEIR V 1990: “Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation” BEIR VI 1999: “The Health Effects of Exposure to Indoor Radon” BEIR VII, Phase...

radioactive noble gas that is formed from the decay of radium. It is considered to be a health hazard. Radon gas from natural sources can accumulate in buildings...

Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity. Radon occurs naturally as a result of decay of radioactive elements in soil...

the dense radioactive noble gas radon (specifically the isotope 222Rn), which is responsible for much of the danger of environmental radium. It is 2.7 million...

Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (2006). "Annex E: Sources-to-effects assessment for radon in homes and workplaces" (PDF). Effects of Ionizing Radiation...

of clinical and basic medical sciences that involves the study of the effects of ionizing radiation on living things, in particular health effects of...

disproportionately high incidences of fatal lung cancer caused by radon exposure. In fact, the health effects of radon were first widely acknowledged when Mormon and Native...

schools. Common pollutants of indoor air include: secondhand tobacco smoke, air pollutants from indoor combustion, radon, molds and other allergens,...

jenvrad.2018.01.006. hdl:11250/2499076. PMID 29407642. "Radon". National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Retrieved 2019-04-18. Smith, Jim; Beresford...

PMID 7814250. S2CID 41388715. Becker, K. (2003). "Health Effects of High Radon Environments in Central Europe: Another Test for the LNT Hypothesis...

"Effects of fossil fuel and total anthropogenic emission removal on public health and climate". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the...

Environment Agency (EA). British Institute of Radiology Health effects of radon International Radon Project NHS Health Research Authority Dental radiography...

recognized expert on the measurement and health effects of radon gas. He started his research career in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania...

The effects of natural cosmic radiation, radioactive substances such as radon and radium found in the environment, and the potential health hazards of non-ionizing...

term health effects. One dissenting study is "a re-evaluation of cancer incidence near the Three Mile Island nuclear plant" by Dr Steven Wing of the University...

in munitions is controversial because of concerns about potential long-term health effects. Normal functioning of the kidney, brain, liver, heart, and...

observed effects; errors in interpreting data have been made. The possibility of a seventh noble gas, after helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, was...

anthropogenic although there exist a number of natural carcinogens and chemical elements like radon and lead may turn up in health-critical concentrations in the natural...

radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran". International Congress Series. 1276: 169–174. doi:10.1016/j.ics.2004.11.102. "Health Risks". Radon. EPA. Archived from...

relationships between radon exposure and lung cancer, a latency period of about 20 years between radon exposure and health effects, and noted that, while...

levels of radioactivity pose little bit danger but can confuse measurement. A particular problem is encountered with naturally generated radon gas which...

of the effects of POPs on health is very challenging in the laboratory setting. For example, for organisms exposed to a mixture of POPs, the effects are...

protection to estimate stochastic health effects such as radiation-induced cancer, genetic mutations and teratogenic effects on the human body due to exposure...

would examine the continued effects from the Chernobyl accident, and provide more information on the full extent of related health consequences. Results from...

of electromagnetic radiation are immediately realized as burns, the health effects due to chronic or occupational exposure may not manifest effects for...