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7 unusual facts about Toxicology


Death of Dianne Brimble

Toxicology reports later revealed that the amount of the sedative drug in her system was three times the amount that a recreational user would have used.

History of emerging infectious diseases

Pre-existing theories of disease: Before a pathogen is well-recognized, scientists may attribute the symptoms of infection to other causes, such as toxicological, psychological, or genetic causes.

Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy

Toxicological tests revealed traces of cocaine in Catsouras's body, but no alcohol.

Rachel Bodley

In 1865 she left the Cincinnati Female Seminary, to become the Chair of Chemistry and Toxicology at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she would spend the rest of her career.

Tanta University

Student gets the degree of Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences (B.Sc.) after successfully passing 10 semesters studying in 8 departments including: Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical analytical chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacognosy, Microbiology, Pharmacology & Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacy.

Toxicology

Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the court of the Roman emperor Nero, made the first attempt to classify plants according to their toxic and therapeutic effect.

University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Anatomy, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Physiology, Microbiology and Medical Zoology Biology through an intercampus (UPR-Medical Sciences and Rio Piedras) program.


Bernard L. Oser

His research during this time focused on biological and chemical assays on vitamins, proteins, and other nutrient; pharmaceutical vitamin fortification, stabilization, and availability; toxicology and safety evaluation of food additives, drugs, pesticides, and related chemicals; and the scientific aspects of food law and regulations.

Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology

Cutaneous and Ocular Toxicology is an international, peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all types of harm to skin and eyes.

David W. Hein

He currently is a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville where he serves as the Peter K. Knoefel Endowed Chair of Pharmacology, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Associate University Provost for Strategic Planning.

Environmental toxicology

Rachel Carson is considered the mother of environmental toxicology, as she made it a distinct field within toxicology in 1962 with the publication of her book Silent Spring, which covered the effects of uncontrolled pesticide use.

Examinetics

OccHealth search features abstracts and papers listed under Life Sciences and medical databases such as PubMed and Medline that are published in international occupational health and medicine journals such as the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology and the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

F. Peter Guengerich

Dr. Guengerich is the author or co-author of over 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles, and a researcher in toxicology working on cytochromes P450, DNA damage and carcinogenesis, and drug metabolism.

Gabriel L. Plaa

Plaa went to teach at Tulane University, then the University of Iowa, before in 1968 he was hired by Université de Montréal (UdeM) as Chairman of the Department of Pharmacology, a young promising scientist who the previous year had become the first recipient of the newly created Achievement Award of the American Society of Toxicology.

Jamini Bhushan Ray

These books are based on ancient Indian “Salakya Tantra” (Otolaryngology, or Ear, Nose, Throat), “Prashuti Tantra” (Gynecology), “Bisha Tantra” (Toxicology) and “Kumara Tantra” (Pediatrics).

Jiří Matoušek

Jiří Matoušek, chairman of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Scientific Advisory Board and professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at Masaryk University, Brno

Journal of Drug Targeting

The editor in chief is Saghir Akhtar (Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University).

Martin Shubik

His siblings are Philippe Shubik, the cancer researcher and founder of the Toxicology Forum, and Irene Shubik, a former BBC producer.

Mary Gaulden Jagger

Gaulden served on the Committee on Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council from 1989–1999, studying (among other things) the environment on the International Space Station.

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The poison call center is staffed with poison experts including – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other specially trained in toxicology – provide life-saving services to Illinois residents and health care professionals.

Rahul Ram

Following a Ph.D. (1986–90) in Environmental Toxicology from Cornell University (which he attended on an Andrew White scholarship), he became an activist with the Narmada Bachao Andolan (1990–95).

Saghir Akhtar

Saghir Akhtar is professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, and editor in chief of the Journal of Drug Targeting.

Schizoaffective disorder

These may include serum BSL if olanzapine has previously been prescribed, thyroid function if lithium has previously been taken to rule out hypothyroidism, liver function tests if chlorpromazine has been prescribed, CPK levels to exclude neuroleptic malignant syndrome, and a urinalysis and serum toxicology screening if substance use is suspected.

Sten Forshufvud

Sten Forshufvud (1903-1985) was a Swedish dentist and physician, Napoleonican, and amateur toxicologist (expert on poisons) who formulated and supported the controversial theory that Napoleon was assassinated by a member of his entourage while in exile.

The dose makes the poison

"Regulators must extrapolate results not only from animal toxicity studies, typically from mice and/or rats to humans, but also from the very high doses usually used in animal experiments to the very low doses that are characteristic of human exposure. These two types of extrapolation are steeped in uncertainty," wrote Edward J. Calabrese, Professor of Toxicology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst' School of Public Health in Amherst, MA, USA.

University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

The Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology is responsible for providing instruction in pharmacology, toxicology and medicinal chemistry to PharmD students and for providing graduate education to students in a variety of research tracks.


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