For years, Switzerland has distributed iodine tablets to residents living within 50 kilometers (31.1 miles) of one of the country’s three nuclear power plants. It last distributed such pills in 2014.

Iodine tablets are in the mail to millions of Swiss citizens as part of the country’s preparation for a disaster at one of its nuclear power plants. In 2014, about 4.6 million potassium iodide tablets ...

(Bloomberg) -- Denmark’s government is asking citizens to prepare for an attack or other potential crisis by stockpiling supplies of water, food and medicine, and keeping iodine tablets at home. A ...

(WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Department of Health is offering to replace expired potassium iodide tablets for those near active nuclear power plants. The tablets are free and available on June 12 to ...

"The emergency planning would have to involve issues like arrangements to distribute iodine tablets to half the population of Rosyth ..." ...

Standardized incidence ratios elevated for all nonkeratinocyte skin cancers, melanoma. HealthDay News — Patients with primary thyroid cancer who receive radioactive iodine therapy have an elevated ...

Reston, VA—A combination of pretherapy imaging and dosimetry can help ensure that patients with refractory differentiated thyroid cancer obtain the maximum benefit from radioactive iodine treatments ...

Interventions, such as speech therapy, after receiving radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer may help manage quality of life. After receiving radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer, ...