A new film, “Silent Fallout: Baby Teeth Speak,” covers the Cold War era study of atomic bomb radiation in 320,000 baby teeth by St. Louis scientists. It’s a St. Louis
buy this issue In 2022, China released its "Global Civilization Initiative," a document enumerating China's commitment to fostering diversity, equality…
Opinion: The St. Louis Baby Tooth survey’s distinct combination of citizen activism and scientific expertise became a model of achievement for later generations.
Nuclear Weapon Test, Bikini Atoll, 1954 In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease. A collaborator with Harvard, the Radiation and Public Health […]
Three decades later, [after the 1950s] Washington University staff discovered thousands of abandoned baby teeth that had gone untested. The school donated the teeth to the Radiation and Public Health Project, which was conducting a study of strontium-90 in teeth of U.S. children near nuclear reactors. Now, using strontium-90 still present in teeth, the Radiation and Public…