Are miscarriages caused bythe fallout? Some of the miscarriages in exposed Rongelap women during the first years after the fallout may have been due to radiation exposure. Since that time there were only a few miscarriages and this is normal. Women no longer have to worry about miscarriages due to radiation. Children and women Theyare healthy. If I have trouble with mythyroid, will I be healthy again? If you are treated properly and you follow the doctor’s advice, vou should be healthy and strong like anybody else. You should be examined every year so the doctor can find out if you have thyroid disease. If the doctors operate on your thy- roid, they will give you medicine. If you listen to the doctor and keep taking your medicine, you will stay strong and healthy. Since people who were not exposed to fallout have been living on the islands for some time, have the Brookhaven doctors found anysigns of radiation sickness in them and if so will they be compensated? Thereis practically no chance that anyof these people will develop anyradiation sickness since the amount ofradiation left on the islands is so small. If it did happen the government probably would consider compensation.