Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Provide scientific knowledge regarding handling and application of Nano particles in medicine. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In recent years Nano-structure materials have been attractive to the world of science and technology for their...

Recently, our partner journal Archives of Toxicology published a special issue addressing the key questions in nanotoxicology (Weiss and Diabaté, 2011). The number of commercially available nanomaterials is rapidly growing. Thus, one aspect of nanotoxicology is the unintended exposure to nanomaterials. Pharmaceutical nanoproducts have been introduced for diagnostics, drug delivery or cancer tre...