A man aged in his sixties presented to the emergency department with vomiting, dizziness and generalised weakness preceded by perioral and peripheral paraesthesias for several hours. He did not speak English and was visiting from overseas. Examination revealed multidirectional nystagmus, subtle bilateral ptosis, marked bilateral upper limb dysmetri...
Bertram, Michael G.;Agerstrand, Marlene;Thore, Eli S.J.; 104234;Allen, Joel;Balshine, Sigal;Brand, Jack A.;Brooks, Bryan W.;Dang, Zhichao;Duquesne, Sabine;Ford, Alex T.;
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Behavioural analysis has been attracting significant attention as a broad indicator of sub-lethal toxicity and has secured a place as an important subdiscipline in ecotoxicology. Among the most notable characteristics of behavioural research, compared to other established approaches in sub-lethal ecotoxicology (e.g. reproductive and developmental b...
AIMS: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy and validity of the determination of cause of death (COD) and manner of death (MOD) at the completion of the forensic autopsy prosection. METHODS: We analysed 952 autopsy cases conducted from 2019 to 2020 and compared every patients COD, other significant contributing factors to death (OSC...
Moe, S. Jannicke;Brix, Kevin V.;Landis, Wayne G.;Stauber, Jenny L.;Carriger, John F.;Hader, John D.;Kunimitsu, Taro;Mentzel, Sophie;Nathan, Rory;Noyes, Pamela D.;
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The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) convened a Pellston workshop in 2022 to examine how information on climate change could be better incorporated into the ecological risk assessment (ERA) process for chemicals as well as other environmental stressors. A major impetus for this workshop is that climate change can affect com...
Air pollution is a global issue that poses a significant threat to public health. Children, due to their developing physiology, are particularly susceptible to the inhalation of environmental pollutants. Exposure can trigger immune modulation and organ damage, increasing susceptibility to respiratory diseases. Therefore, we aim to examine the assoc...
Objective While there are several well-established environmental risk factors for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a paucity of evidence exists linking environmental toxicants with RA prevalence. We aimed to examine the associations between various environmental toxicants and RA among adults in the U.S. general population while adjusting for non-heritabl...