This article reviews interdisciplinary toxicity literature, building from Gerald E. Markowitz and David Rosner’s “deceit denial” Phil Brown’s “contested illnesses” to argue for a third, more critical analytic that I term “empire empirics.” Deceit denial pit corporate actors against antitoxins advocates, while contested illnesses highlight social movements. Empire empirics center the role of imp...

evidence acquisition this systematic review proposes a new triage system for patients exposed to nerve agents. information regarding clinical signs and symptoms of intoxication with nerve agents, primary treatments, and classification of patients were extracted from the literature. all related articles were reviewed. subsequently, specialists from different disciplines were invited to discuss a...

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background: among different pollutants released into the environment, dyes are considered as one of the most dangerous contaminants. in recent years, magnetic nanomaterials have attracted much attention for their dye removal capacity. the aim of this study was to explore the adsorption kinetics of an anionic dye (reactive orange 13 (ro)) by nife2o4 nanoparticles (nife2o4 nps) under various cond...

conclusions as a result of the full range uv-vis scanning of the responsible band in the hptlc experiments (200-700 nm), the flavonoid was the most imaginable natural compound. results through the bioassay guided fractionation method, the greatest antibacterial activities were related to the n-hexane extract. it was also revealed that the effective anti-mrsa agent of the assessed plant was a re...

background: sulfur mustard (sm) as a chemical warfare agent, increases permeability of bronchial vessels and damages airway epithelium. sm exposure causes debilitating respiratory complications. this study was designed to evaluate clinical respiratory manifestations, and to compare chest x ray (cxr) and high resolution computed tomography (hrct) scan of chest in sm exposed patients with respira...

Chemical terrorism is a new threat to the security of mankind, which scale essentially exceeds the impact of use of the most modem firearms. At present time all over the world threats from different radical elements to use radioactive materials, potent poisonous substances and pathogenic microorganisms for terrorist purposes became more frequent. High-toxic chemical substances can fall in terro...

objective(s) considering fair response to inhaled corticosteroids and reports of severe air way hyper responsiveness in chemical warfare victims (cwv), a role for eosinophilic inflammation (i.e. asthma) was postulated. the objective of this study was to determine the presence of eosinophilic inflammation in cwv by evaluation of sputum cellularity and eosinophil cationic protein (ecp). materials...