Toxicology News

UP to 50 calls were pending but no ambulances were available to respond about the time a man who drank a fatal dose of disinfectant first rang 000 for help, an inquest heard.

The implants contained a "higher proportion than the norm" of a chemical which has been linked with causing damage to a developing foetus, they said.

Amidst increasing use of CFL bulbs, with the recent electricity tariff hike, health authorities in Sri Lanka warned the public to take precautions as those bulbs contained mercury.

A Los Angeles County Coroner's office criminalist testified Monday that he believed it was "very problematic" when he learned that the powerful anesthetic propofol was administered to singer Michael Jackson at the entertainer's home rather than at a hospital.

Oil buried in sediments in the shallow waters of the Gulf is triggering genetic reactions in the gills and livers of local populations of killifish, a ubiquitous prey for marine species vital to the region's economy, according to a study published this week in the review Environmental Science & Technology.

Bridget Lorenz Lemberg, founder, lab director and toxicologist at Forensic Fluids Laboratories in Kalamazoo, has been named the Grant Thornton Leader & Innovator of the Year.

In an interview on National Radio Dr Leo Schep, the toxicologist behind the Kronic ban, admitted that natural cannabis is less harmful than synthetic products currently available.

Sarah Houston was studying medicine at the University of Leeds at the time of her death last September.