Daily dose of toxics to be tracked

Renal response to environmental toxics

Several characteristics of normal renal function increase the risk to the kidney of damage by environmental toxins. Due to the magnitude of renal blood flow the total amount of noxious substance delivered may be disproportionately high. Furthermore, the capacity to concentrate substances within the kidney by processes of filtration, reabsorption and secretion has the potential to increase the t...

Maximum daily dose of hydrocodone.

Tolerance of daily single compared to space dose of merital.

Merital (Nomifensine) is a tetrahydroiso quinolene which is structurally unrelated to the tricyclics or to the mono amino-oxidase inhibiters. Merital has been reported to have antidepressant properties equivalent to amitryptyline (Grof, Saxena, Daigle, and Mahutte, 1977) and imiprimine (Forrest, Hewett, and Nicholson, 1977) in the treatment of patients with depressive symptoms. Bruckner and Jan...

Tackling toxics.

ost Americans believe that if a chemical is in their cosmetics, their coat, or their couch, someone is making sure it’s safe for their health. In reality, little toxicity information or regulation is required for 80,000 industrial chemicals used in commerce in the United States. To address this, legislation to update the inef ective 1976 Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) is currently moving th...

Radiation dose of caregivers could be reduced in thyroid carcinoma patients requiring high dose of radioactive iodine: A case report

Undesired radiation exposure to caregivers is an important problem in radioiodine therapy in thyroid carcinoma patients, especially when patient is non-ambulatory. Special precautions are needed to keep the exposure to caregivers low when higher dose of radioiodine is necessary. Here we present a case-report of a 74-year old male patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma with local invasion and...