A fire continues at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after a strike on the shelter of the destroyed fourth reactor. As of ...

Congenital heart defects (CHD) are common among these children. Below, 4-year-old Rostislav gets a checkup before undergoing open-heart surgery to correct two holes and a faulty valve in his heart.

Chernobyl’s reactor meltdown remains history’s worst nuclear ... damage to plantlife, and birth defects in both humans and animals. The ecological damage remains difficult to comprehend, but the ...

For nearly 40 years, the Chernobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) has been a laboratory for scientists to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure. One of the ongoing subjects in this unintentional ...

The scientific debate is ongoing over whether congenital birth defects can be linked to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that happened 30 years ago this month. Physicians in the ...