Potassium iodide supplements are flying off drug-store shelves in the United States, according to a number of reports. There are two reasons why this is not a good thing. One, experts have repeatedly ...

(CNN) — As Russia’s assault in Ukraine intensifies, fear of radioactive fallout from accidental or intentional attacks on Ukraine’s nuclear plants, or from the use of a nuclear bomb, has triggered ...

Tensions between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have continued to escalate this month, with Trump tweeting, “I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more ...

Sales of potassium iodide pills, like these shown from 2002, soar as fears of radiation from nuclear fallout or reactor accidents rise amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Carlos T. Miranda Associated ...

(CBS) Potassium iodide pills are suddenly a hot commodity. Americans snapping up bottles of the cancer-preventing salt even though the U.S. government has said that radiation leaking from Japan's ...

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 ...