Principles and procedures in forensic toxicology.

Progress of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry in clinical and forensic toxicology.

The use of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has recently exploded in various analytic fields, including toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring (although still far behind pharmacokinetics). There is no doubt that LC-MS is currently competing with gas chromatography (GC)-MS for the status of the reference analytic technique in toxicology. This review presents, for the nonspecia...

Electric shock in patients administered to hospital: a descriptive study

Results of a nine-laboratory survey of forensic toxicology proficiency.

Toxicological determinations are crucial to coroners' or medical examiners' judgments that drugs are significantly involved in a death. However, differences in laboratory procedures, thoroughness of screening, and limits of detection may result in artifactual differences in the toxicological results and the subsequent interpretations of them. To test this possibility, we conducted a toxicology ...

Epidemiology of Drug Abuse (Chronic Intoxication) and its Related Factors in a MMT Clinic in Shiraz, Southern Iran

Background: Drug abuse is a major health problem in many countries. Noticing the different patterns of drug abuse in different areas, we evaluated the epidemiology of drug abuse and related factors in Fars province, Southern Iran. Materials and Methods: In a one-year cross-sectional study, from March 21st, 2009 to 2010, all subjects referring to Addiction Treatment Clinic of Shiraz University ...

PROCEEDINGS of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences February 2006

Criminalistics.........................................................................38 Engineering Sciences...........................................................126 General.................................................................................152 Jurisprudence .......................................................................179 Odontology ...................................