PRESS RELEASE: New Report in the International Journal of Health Services

by on 20. Dec, 2011 in Chernobyl, Environmental Health, Fukushima

PRESS RELEASE—Janette D. Sherman, MD 12-20-2011 This report, An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume from Fukushima: Is There a Correlation? published in the International Journal of Health Services today, is not new science, but confirms research done over the decades as to adverse effects caused by radioisotopes […]

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Dr. Sherman to Speak at Educational Forum on Uranium Mining in Virginia

by on 07. Nov, 2011 in Environmental Health, Nuclear Power, Radiation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On Friday, November 11th 2011, Sustainable Loudoun and Piedmont Environmental Council are hosting a free educational forum: Uranium Mining in  Virginia: Should We End the Moratorium? at the George Washington University  Ashburn Campus, Ashburn VA. Doors will open at 6 pm and the speaker program  begins at 7 pm. Light refreshments will […]

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Vancouver Sun cites spike in sudden infant deaths

by on 05. Jul, 2011 in Environmental Health

This article in the Vancouver Sun followed an article written by Dr. Sherman and Joseph Mangano in the San Francisco BayView newspaper questioning whether the fall out from Fukushima might affect the health of west coast residents in the U.S. and Canada (Is the increase in baby deaths in the northwest U.S. due to Fukushima […]

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Question marks, the elephant in the room…

by on 25. Jun, 2011 in Chernobyl, Fukushima, Radiation

…and the refusal of nuclear power defenders to consider what has happened to people and the environment since Fukushima and Chernobyl San Francisco BayView, June 25, 2011 — By Janette Sherman and Joseph Mangano By concentrating only on the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) data – incomplete at best – and ignoring the on-going radioactive […]

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Fukushima and the Nuclear Establishment: The Big Lies Fly High

by on 16. Jun, 2011 in Chernobyl, Environmental Health, Fukushima, Radiation

Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, has focused on investigative reporting on energy and environmental issues for more than 40 years. He is the host of the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up (www.envirovideo.com) and the author of numerous books. He writes for CounterPunch.org: The global nuclear […]

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Is the increase in baby deaths in the northwest U.S. due to Fukushima fallout? How can we find out?

by on 09. Jun, 2011 in Chernobyl, Environmental Health, Fukushima

San Francisco BayView, June 9, 2011 Janette D. Sherman, MD, Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA U.S. babies are dying at an increased rate. While the United States spends billions on medical care, as of 2006, the U.S. ranked 28th in the world in infant mortality, more than twice that of the lowest ranked countries. (See Table […]

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Chernobyl: A Million Casualties

by on 30. Apr, 2011 in Cancer, Chernobyl, Environmental Health

EnviroVideo presents Enviro Close-Up with Karl Grossman. Dr. Sherman is interviewed on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl meltdown. http://blip.tv/envirovideo/chernobyl-a-million-casualties-4940000 The video is also available with Japanese subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRO0wXjblJc

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Chernobyl: Consequences of the catastrophe 25 years later

by on 27. Apr, 2011 in Cancer, Chernobyl, Environmental Health, Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Power, Radiation

San Francisco BayView, April 27, 2011 by Janette D. Sherman, M.D., and Alexey V. Yablokov, Ph.D. Editor’s note: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists asked Dr. Sherman, recognized worldwide for her expertise on Chernobyl, to write this article last year, then rejected it just before deadline, probably considering it too alarming. In it, she reports the […]

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Interview with Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor

by on 27. Apr, 2011 in Cancer, Chernobyl, Environmental Health, Fukushima, Japan

Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. It was just four days […]

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Documentary Film: Life in the Dead Zone

by on 26. Apr, 2011 in Chernobyl

Twenty-five years ago, the core of Nuclear Reactor #4 exploded at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26, 1986 in Soviet Ukraine. The horrific disaster was the worst in history causing fires, a nuclear meltdown, and sending out a radioactive cloud that blanketed Ukraine, Belarus, Scandinavia and Western Europe. The official Soviet death toll […]

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