The Legal Failure to Prevent Subclinical Developmental Toxicity

Legal liability for failure to prevent pregnancy (wrongful pregnancy).

Can the conception of a child ever constitute damage recoverable in law? This article considers the liability of healthcare practitioners for failing to prevent a pregnancy. Developments leading to the recognition of wrongful pregnancy as a cause of (legal) action in South Africa (SA), are briefly outlined. The salient points of the relevant judgments by SA courts are set out to expose the rati...

Subclinical Lead Toxicity

A group of 45 male adolescents and young adults, beginning treatment for behavior disorder or learning disability, was found to exhibit increased systolic blood pressure, decreased hand-eye coordination as measured by the Pursuit-Rotor, shortened reaction times, and lowered lactic dehydrogenase, all significantly correlated with tissue (hair) lead concentrations considered to be in the normal r...

Lead toxicity: from overt to subclinical to subtle health effects.

Although the toxicity of lead was recognized centuries ago, concern was restricted to overt symptoms: colic, encephalopathy, anemia, or renal disease. Two major reasons for lack of progress in restricting toxicity were that interest was limited to occupational exposures and there was lack of awareness of specific biochemical or metabolic effects. Identification of subclinical effects has been p...

The survey of primary education course pattern to prevent from academic failure of dentistry students of Tehran Azad Dentistry University

Abstract BACKGROUND & AIM: According to the commonness of academic Failure and its well-known side- effects .the question that arises is how the primary education course should be to prevent the academic failure. Therefore this study performed on the different position managers of  Tehran Azad dental university to answer to this guest ion in year 2018 Materials and  Methods: This descriptive st...

Failure to prevent perinatal HIV infection.