Is low-level lead pollution dangerous?

Blood lead level in opium abuse. Which is more dangerous? Opium smoking or opium ingestion?

Low level exposure to lead.

Only five people had used condoms on every occasion and eight people had not used them at all. In my clinic I have been asking girls who have had sex with strangers abroad how often they were able to persuade their partners to use condoms-or even withdrawal. I have so far reached zero out of seven. Although all the girls had asked the men to use condoms, they had refused, and the girls, all of ...

Perspective on Low Level Lead Toxicity

Cavitation (volume oscillations and collapse of gas bubbles), as generated by a co-administration of shockwaves (SW) and microbubbles (SWB), induces cytotoxicity in vitro. Moreover, cavitation potentiates the effects of Fluorouracil (FUra) on colon cancer cells. We aimed at reproducing such effects in vivo. A peritoneal carcinomatosis was induced in BDIX rats by intraperitoneal (IP) injection o...

Dangerous at Low Levels

Sir,—We should like to report disadvantages to the new style (laminated) cover of BJA. First, it is no longer possible to use the white band of the front cover for recording of progress, completed reading or pages/ references for storing. Second, we feel sure that we are not the only anaesthetists who have neither the space nor the time for journals at work and who receive journals at home. One...

The current lead pollution problem.

IN the past few years, pollution of the environment by lead has received considerable attention and evoked a variety of responses the more extreme of which have been readily accepted for publication in the National Press. The manifold purposes that man has found for the utilization of lead in the past and at the present time have caused its dissemination into the environment which, in some inst...