Recessive disorders - a serious health hazard?

Indoor Aerosols: A Serious Threat for Human Health

Cadmium Toxicity- a Health Hazard and a Serious Environmental Problem -an Overview

Cd 2+ a heavy metal accumulates in the body and has a very long biological half-life (10–30 years) in humans. Environmental cadmium contamination occurs through industries related to batteries, coatings, electroplating, alloys, plastics, glasses, ceramics, enamels and artists’ colors, zinc, copper, lead, and iron ores treatment, coal and oil burning power plants, weathering of parent rocks etc....

Phthalate-Induced Liver Protection against Deleterious Effects of the Th1 Response: A Potentially Serious Health Hazard

Infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) induces pulmonary immunopathology mediated by classical Th1 type of acquired immunity with hepatic involvement in up to 80% of disseminated cases. Since PPAR agonists cause immune responses characterized by a decrease in the secretion of Th1 cytokines, we investigated the impact of activating these receptors on hepatic pathology associated with a w...

Addition of steroids in medicated dentrifices marketed in Pakistan: a possible serious health hazard.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether some dentrifices contain steroids. MATERIALS AND METHODS Samples of 20 brands claiming to have any medicinal benefit and readily available in the open market were submitted for testing for the presence of steroids to the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories, Karachi. RESULTS Eight samples tested positive on the first test and sev...

Is environmental cadmium a serious hazard to Czech population?

The main objective of the study was to asses whether the environmental cadmium exposure in the Czech Republic is high enough to be able to affect significantly the human reproduction. Cadmium levels were measured in the blood and follicular fluid of 220 women in in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapy, using atomic absorption spectrometry. The mean value of cadmium in venous blood was 0.85 ng x ml...