Voluntary strategies recommended to reduce dioxin exposure

Human exposure to dioxin.

Because 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is the most potent chemical carcinogen evaluated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), many people fear that exposure to even small amounts of TCDD could lead to serious health effects. Ambient measurements confirm that environmental TCDD contamination is widespread. The public is concerned about TCDD exposure from such diverse sou...

Educational Strategies to Reduce Children’s Excessive Exposure to Radiological Exams

aDiagnostic Imaging Department at Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Received on February 9, 2017. © 2017 Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo. Published by Zeppelini Publishers. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Educational stratEgiEs to rEducE childrEn’s ExcEssivE E...

Simplification strategies to reduce antiretroviral drug exposure: progress and prospects.

Current U.S. guidelines for initial therapy of HIV type-1 (HIV-1) infection recommend daily, lifelong treatment with a combination of three antiretroviral drugs consisting of two nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors and a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor or a protease inhibitor. Although this approach has been successful in reducing morbidity and mortality from HIV...

Voluntary Contributions to Reduce Expected Public Losses

Control Strategies to Reduce Emissions