Last editorial of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology addressed the important role of poison control centers in the improvement of public health (1). In Vietnam, poison control center (PCC) of Bach Mai Hospital has been the only national one for civilians. The establishment and activities of this center can be considered as one of the pioneers in the East Asia. History and setting (2...

In forensic toxicology analytical challenges are daily routine. For the presented work showcase analytes have been chosen covering some parts of the broad spectrum in forensic toxicology. The work focused on the role of LC-MS/MS in forensic toxicology for answering questions in forensic toxicology as well as in therapeutic drug monitoring. As biological matrices blood plasma and hair, as altern...

Screening for toxic compounds or drugs (TCD) in different body samples is one of the major tasks in clinical and forensic toxicology as well as in doping control. Several procedures using different separation and/or detection systems were used for screening purposes in the field of analytical toxicology [1]. While immunoassays allow a quick screening for a limited number of targets, chromatogra...

In order to address the field of tension between toxicology as well as basic and clinical sciences, we closely cooperate with our partner journal Archives of Toxicology. To give our readers a rapid overview of recent developments we have summarized the key messages of the most cited publications. For better orientation we grouped the articles into the categories inorganic compounds (Table 1), t...

BACKGROUND Of global concern is the decline in under five children mortality which has reversed in some countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1990 s which could be due to disparities in access to preventive services including immunization. This paper is aimed at determining the trend in disparities in completion of immunization using Tanzania Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)...

OBJECTIVES To derive the best possible estimates of trends in age at first sex (AFS) among successive cohorts of Ugandan men and women based on all the data available from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and cohort studies in Masaka and Rakai districts. METHODS The datasets from the DHS, Masaka cohort and Rakai cohort were analysed separately. Survival analysis methods were used to e...