Some in the popular press may have just discovered what many scientists have been saying for more than a decade: a little radiation is good for you. Over the past few months two major publications ...

Hormesis has been defined as “the stimulating effect of small doses of substances which in larger doses are inhibitory.” As stated by Wolff (1989) the meaning has been modified in recent times to ...

Medicine, science, and public policy are driven by competing theories about how our bodies react to various substances. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) bases its decisions on a linear ...