Cardiac events and death are not uncommon in adults with â-thalassemia (â-TM) taking deferoxamine (DFO) monotherapy because of poor compliance and possibly the less effectiveness…
Current guidelines recommend the use of full therapeutic dosages of antihypertensive agents, or combination therapy, to improve BP control of hypertensive patients in primary healthcare.…
At the request of the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency and in agreement with the appropriate authorities, an observational, multi-centre, non-interventional, post-authorisation safety study of…
Low-dose steroids have shown contradictory results in trials and three recent meta-analyses. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of low-dose steroids for severe…
In this study, the authors demonstrated that the Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system can mediate stable expression of both reporter and therapeutic genes in human…
The invention relates to the field of transporting hazardous materials and specifically to a pallet that holds containers for receiving a liquid, for example an…
In this study, the authors describe NH3 and NOx slippage through a SCR. In one example, signals from NOx sensors positioned upstream and downstream of…
A filter to remove toxic, harmful gas is comprised of: a shell; a polluted air inlet and treated air outlet installed inside the shell; and…
Photocytotoxicity of visible light catalytic Ag/AgBr/TiO2 nanoparticles (NPs) was examined both in vitro and in vivo. Their crystals structures, atom compositions, and light absorption property…
The aim of this study was to investigate the possible link between the mental disorder and the poisoning due to some organophosphorus agrochemicals. The study…
Electrolytes, blood gas and CO2 combination proportion (CO2CP) of 11 patients with acute arsenic poisoning were detected. Blood K1+, partial pressure of CO2 (PaCO2), actual…
The objective of this paper was to investigate relations between villus Benzo (a) pyrene (BaP)-DNA adducts and blighted ovum in early pregnancy, and to explore…
The aim of this study was to assess the heavy metals Cd, Ni, Pb, and Zn in scalp hair samples of 50 Irish and 78…
Nature has provided us all fundamental resources such as air, water and land for growth, development and survival. Water is a chief natural resource. However…
The peri-urban soils of Huelva, one of the first industrial cities in Spain, are subject to severe pollution problems primarily due to past poor management…
Beryllium sensitisation (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD) are caused by exposure to beryllium with susceptibility affected by at least one well-studied genetic host factor,…
In the present study, the authors described an empirical model for exposure to respirable crystaslline silica (RCS) to create a quantitative job-exposure matrix (JEM) for…
This study summarised the External Quality Assessment Scheme (EQAS) for the biological monitoring of occupational exposure to toxic chemicals, which started in 1995 and continued…
In the current study, the authors discussed workplace air pollution and health effects from exposure to same. Topics discussed include: pollution sources (natural, anthropogenic, point…
The effects of thermal discomfort on health and human performance were investigated in an office, in an attempt to elucidate the physiological mechanisms involved. Twelve…