Lead can be absorbed after inhalation or ingestion and is toxic to most organ systems. Management involves avoidance of exposure…
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Poisoning by household products
Exposures to household products are common. Most of these exposures are accidental, causing minimal symptoms. Serious toxicity is possible if…
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is diagnosed in 1 in 100,000 people per year in the UK, more commonly in winter…
Antidepressant and antipsychotic poisoning
Tricyclic antidepressants, citalopram, venlafaxine and monoamine oxidase inhibitors are the most toxic antidepressants in overdose. Features include hypotension and arrhythmias…
Anticonvulsant toxicity
Anticonvulsant medications are used in the treatment of epilepsy as neuropathic pain, migraine and psychiatric illness. Anticonvulsants suppress neuronal excitation…
Anticoagulants in poisoning
Blood coagulation is the result of a complex cascade of proteases that produce an insoluble fibrin polymer from soluble fibrinogen.…
195 Quarantined in California After Fleeing Coronavirus Epicenter
The U.S. government took the rare step with American evacuees flown home from Wuhan, China, and said it would quarantine…
Novel coronavirus receptors show similarities to SARS-CoV, according to new analysis
Previous studies have shown how the SARS virus (SARS-CoV) interacts with animal and human hosts in order to infect them.…
Modelling study estimates spread of 2019 novel coronavirus
New modeling research estimates that up to 75,800 individuals in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with…
Whole genome of the Wuhan coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, sequenced
The Institut Pasteur has sequenced the whole genome of the coronavirus known as ‘2019-nCoV’, becoming the first institution in Europe…