Radioactive iodine treatment after thyroid cancer surgery usually means side effects like nausea and time in hospital isolated from loved ones. But new clinical trial results from researchers at UCL ...

New UK guidelines for the treatment of hyperthyroidism, including Graves' disease, place heavier emphasis on the use of radioactive iodine as the frontline treatment for patients unlikely to remain ...

UICR does not predict radioactive iodine ablation success or disease recurrence in differentiated thyroid cancer.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists may have finally found a solution to tackle the problem of radioactive iodine, one of nuclear energy’s most stubborn ...

Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The war in Ukraine has heightened fears about nuclear exposure — and interest in iodine pills that can help protect the body from some radiation. Concerns have grown in recent weeks ...

I've been living with a hyperactive thyroid for years, a disease that has debilitating symptoms and can cause heart problems in the long term. When I was offered treatment to fix the problem, I jumped ...

Going back to the 1940s, radioactive iodine has been among the treatments for an overactive thyroid. It’s absorbed mostly by the thyroid gland, destroying those cells. But it has also been linked to ...

Patients with primary thyroid cancer who receive radioactive iodine therapy have an elevated risk for melanoma and other nonkeratinocyte skin cancers when limiting the cancer site to the head and neck ...

A new study from the University of Missouri is helping veterinarians and pet owners better understand how to treat thyroid cancer in dogs by studying how to improve treatment with a type of therapy ...

A new treatment involving a gel-like substance and radioactive iodine-131 eliminated pancreatic tumors in 75% of mice. The corresponding study was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. "We did a ...