Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later in life. It's the latest step in a study that began in the 1950s and 1960s at Washington University, but then stalled for decades.