The OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) has recognized that threat of deliberate exposure of the population to…
Drug misuse
While misuse of traditional drugs remains common the emergence of new psychoactive substances (NPS) has changed the landscape of drug…
Psychiatric assessment of self-poisoning
Self-poisoning accounts for a significant number of attendances to acute services. It can occur at any age. The reasons that…
Cardiovascular complications of poisoning
Many poisons affect the heart or blood vessels or their autonomic control; these direct or indirect effects result in cardiovascular…
Principles of management of the poisoned patient
It would be challenging for all doctors to have a detailed knowledge of every poison they may meet in their…
Principles of assessment and diagnosis of the poisoned patient
Assessment of the patient with acute poisoning includes history-taking, assessment of airway, breathing, circulation and consciousness level, physical examination to…
Epidemiology of poisoning
Accidental poisoning is most common in children, but deliberate self-harm becomes predominant in teenagers and early adulthood. The epidemiology of…
Methodological Issues on the Study of the Significance of Longitudinal Clinical Congestion Pattern in Chronic Heart Failure
We read with great interest the article in an issue of The American Journal of Medicine by Simonaviius et al.1…
Neanderthal Genes Hint at Much Earlier Human Migration From Africa
Modern humans may have left the continent as long 200,000 years ago, a new analysis suggests.
Neanderthal Genes Hint at Much Earlier Human Migration From Africa
Modern humans may have left the continent as long 200,000 years ago, a new analysis suggests.