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Andrew A. Skolnick

JAMA. 1998;280:408-409.

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CITING INVOLVEMENT in a current lawsuit, the US Department of Energy (DOE) declined to participate in a July 2 meeting in Spokane, Wash. The meeting was organized by the Northwest Environmental Education Foundation to find out why the DOE has not yet provided the money it promised to launch the Hanford Medical Monitoring Program. The purpose of this program, which is mandated by the nation's Superfund law, is to screen for thyroid disease in thousands of men and women who grew up downwind from the nuclear weapons facility in Hanford, Wash.

The lawsuit cited by the DOE as the reason for not participating in the meeting was filed in March by one of the Hanford "Downwinders"—the men and women who as children were exposed to the radioactive wastes that were released into the air and water of Washington's lower Columbia River basin by the nation's main plutonium-producing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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