As demand spikes for potassium iodide in the wake of Japan’s nuclear crisis, U.S. poison control centers are starting to receive reports of illness in people who’ve ingested the drug aimed at ...

Across Canada and the United States, health authorities are continuing to reassure the public that radiation released by an earthquake-damaged nuclear-power plant in Japan does not pose a health risk ...

Pet owners anticipating the possible movement to the West Coast of radioactive material from Japan’s damaged nuclear power plants should not give their dogs, cats or other pets potassium iodide ...

Fear of radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors continues to escalate among Americans. Despite reassurance from public health officials that unsafe levels of radiation are unlikely to spread ...

DAVIS (CBS13) – Hundreds of Americans especially along the West Coast have been buying potassium iodide pills over fears radiation from Japan's crippled nuclear plant could spread across the Pacific.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine nears its three-week mark, repercussions are being felt around the world as the prices of oil and grain climb. But a less common consumer product has also become a hot ...