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.

(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 ...

Pharmacies across Belgium are being stocked with iodine pills as part of a new government emergency plan to help protect citizens against a potential nuclear accident. Pharmacies across Belgium are ...

The Belgian government has decided to give its entire population iodine pills in case of a major emergency at one of its nuclear reactors. The government had already issued the pills to people living ...

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors are expected to go to the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant later this week, as the city's authorities made iodine pills available to residents ...

A new targeted alpha therapy is showing promise for patients whose thyroid cancer no longer responds to radioactive iodine, ...

Dietitians reveal the vitamin and supplement pairs that actually have greater health benefits when taken at the same time.

PARIS (Reuters) - Japanese authorities grappling with a nuclear disaster must hand out iodine tablets now and as widely as possible to avoid a potential leap in thyroid cancers, the head of a group of ...

Nevertheless, consuming normal servings of vegan fish alternatives with seaweed – as in the case of the tuna substitute – can ...