conclusions this study attempted to compare the course of acute poisonings with some other diseases to show how self-induced poisoning affects one’s health perception, and how this change takes place over a short time. objectives the aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare the extent and pattern of variation in generic utility measures with respect to capturing the clinical nature of a...

This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central. Occupational medicine and toxicology belong to the most wide ranging disciplines of all medical specialties. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of diseases from the fields of occupation...

background and purpose: the internet offers a wide range of online digital resources for the field of toxicology. methods: the history of toxicology and electronic data collections are reviewed. this review presents a brief and non-comprehensive overview of a representative sampling of some of the broad array of toxicology-related learning, tutorial and information resources now becoming widely...

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216-4505, USA; The Jackson Center for Heart Research, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; The Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA; and Department of Chemist...

Evidence-based-medicine (EBM) has been a revolution in clinical medicine over the last three decades, showing the advantage of objective, critical and systematic reviews of current practices as well as formal meta-analysis of data and central deposits of current best evidence for a given medical problem. Toxicology might benefit from a similar rigorous review of traditional approaches and the d...

Marilyn J. Duncan, Annadora J. Bruce-Keller, Clayton Conner, Pamela E. Knapp, Ruquiang Xu, Avindra Nath, and Kurt F. Hauser Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland; and Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Insti...

Department of Internal Medicine (L.G., S.B., J.Z., D.V.A., C.J.M.) and Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology (S.B., D.V.A., C.J.M.), Department of Surgery University of Louisville Medical Center (Y.L.), VA Medical Center (C.J.M.), UofL Alcohol Research Center, Louisville, Kentucky (L.G., S.B., J.Z., D.V.A., C.J.M.), Department of Medicine II, Section Molecular Hepatology Alcohol Associated Di...

Clinical marine toxicology is a rapidly changing area. Many of the new discoveries reported every year in Europe involve ecological disturbances--including global warming--that have induced modifications in the chorology, behavior, and toxicity of many species of venomous or poisonous aquatic life including algae, ascidians, fish and shellfish. These changes have raised a number of public issue...

1Wise Laboratory of Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health, Department of Applied Medical Sciences, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME 04104, USA 2Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas, CC 39-1623, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 3107 Horsebarn Hill...