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Indian And Chinese Doctors Join Together To Prove The Efficacy Of Herbal Drugs

...logy of how the herbal drugs are to be tested, the toxicology and its efficacy. "As these drugs have been used for hundreds of years, we do not see any reason to expect any adverse reaction. If required we will go in for a detailed study to find out how to purify and standardise the ingredients," said Mathur....

Ambien Plus Alcohol Has A Bad Influence on the Drivers

... was conducted by Laura J. Liddicoat, the forensic toxicology supervisor at a state-run lab in Wisconsin. She presented this paper at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, where her counterparts from other parts of the country swapped similar tales. Her presentation reported six cases of bad driving und...

Children Face Risk While Swimming

...two, according to Alfred Bernard, the professor of toxicology at Belgium's Catholic University of Louvain.// He also added that the levels of the irritant trichloramine were 50% higher in the air above indoor paddling pools than in adult pools, and that his recent study of 341 schoolchildren, 41 of whom had bee...

Aspartame, Artificial Sweetener, A Safe Bet!

...onal Toxicology Program (NTP), the U.S. government toxicology initiative administered by the NIEHS. NTP has recently completed three animal studies designed to evaluate whether aspartame is capable of causing cancer. These U.S. government funded and managed studies were conducted using Good Laboratory Practice...

A Component In Milk May Help Control Inflammatory Diseases

...h Institute and chair of the food microbiology and toxicology department; James Ntambi of the biochemistry department; and Dale Schoeller of the nutritional sciences department. Source: UW-Madison; Food Research Institute...

Opioids And Abnormal Pain Perception

... of opioid consumption (verified by repeated urine toxicology tests). Latency of pain onset (s), pain intensity (0–100 VAS), and tolerance (time for hand withdrawal) in response to the CPT were measured. The main findings of this study were that in response to the CPT, OAs had a longer mean latency for pain and...

Exposure to Pesticides in Schools Produces Illnesses Among Employees, Students

...to pesticide and illness was consistent with known toxicology of the pesticide. The overall annual rates of new cases for 1998 – 2002 was 7.4 cases per million children, and was 27.3 cases per million school employee (adult) full-time equivalents. New case rates among children increased significantly from 1998...

Swimming in Chlorinated Pools Raises Asthma Risk

...oped countries, according to Alfred Bernard of the toxicology unit at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels. // Disinfectants contain compounds that generated potentially harmful gases when they come into contact with urine or sweat from swimmers. The by-product trichloramine is thought to be responsib...

OxyContin Abuse Continues To Rise

...dient in OxyContin, was detected in 56 cases where toxicology tests were performed in 2000 and 2001. Of those people, 23 took fatal doses of the drug....

Mushroom and muscle loss

...ir of the North American Mycological Association's toxicology committee.There are other mushrooms which have delayed effects, or cumulative toxicity -- and it's rare to find more than one meal's worth of T. equestre, he said. If the study's conclusions are confirmed, T. equestre apparently would be the first ...

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