ST. LOUIS — Baby teeth collected in St. Louis in the 1950s and ’60s to measure children’s exposure to atomic bomb fallout will be used in a new study to try to gauge if Cold War bomb testing increased cancer risk.
Old baby teeth help explore possible connections between atomic bomb tests and cancer risk
Thursday, May 29, 2008 | 10:21 p.m. CDT;
updated 2:43 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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