rN -3The exposed Rongelap people have been treated with thyroid hormone for the past 10 years and this treatment has successfully maintained normal thyroid status in the affected people and enhanced growth and development in retarded children. In 1972 a 19 year old Rongelap man who had been exposed at one year of ape died of acute Icukcemia in spite of the extensive Drstine es - Meee Clinical Center of the National Gareer—tinstitrte. treatment at the The illness may have been induced by radiation, The annual medical examinations of the exposed Marshallese people continue with a team of highly qualified medical specialists. In addi- tion we now have a resident physician stationed in the Marshall Islands who makes at least quarterly visits for health care to the exposed people on the outer islands. DOE ARCHIVES