Members Mario Altamirano-Lozano, Unidad de Investigación en Genética y Toxicología Ambiental (UNIGEN), Facultad de Estudios Superiores-Zaragoza, Battalla del 5 de mayo esq. Fuerte de Loreto Col. Ejercito de Oriente, C.P. 09230 Mexico, DF, Mexico Detmar Beyersmann, Department of Biology & Chemistry, Fachbereich 2, University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse NW2, Raum B2230, 28359 Bremen, Germany (Cha...

Biosketch: Dr Lucier’s credentials and record of accomplishments in the field of toxicology are documented in the attached CV. He is currently a consultant in toxicology and a Senior Adjunct scientist for Environmental Defense. Dr Lucier retired from the National Institute of Environmental health Sciences in 2000 where he was Director of the Environmental Toxicology program and Associate Direct...

background and purpose: the internet offers a wide range of online digital resources for the field of toxicology. methods: the history of toxicology and electronic data collections are reviewed. this review presents a brief and non-comprehensive overview of a representative sampling of some of the broad array of toxicology-related learning, tutorial and information resources now becoming widely...

Medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. Support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). In the previous issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific region have been discussed (2). Perhaps, there is now an urg...

The purpose of this paper is to present some of the more carefully studied aspects of the preclinical toxicology of antineo-plastic agents, and apply these findings (with certain obvious cautions) to the area of environmental toxicology. Most of the studies to be described here are the result of applied toxicologic studies performed in support of the clinical introduction of new chemicals in th...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the implementation of training courses and the overall outlook for occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) in Korea. We described the problems facing OEM residency programs in Korea, and reviewed studies dealing with the specialty of occupational health in developed countries in order to suggest directions of improvement for the OEM training courses. M...

In 2016, it was revealed that many children and pregnant women had been injured or killed by disinfectants for home humidifiers in South Korea (hereafter Korea). Criminal trials against the companies that manufactured, imported, or sold such products are now under way and a consumer boycott against them has gained widespread public support, however, more fundamental changes toward a society tha...

The Croatian national Poison Control Centre, a health service founded in 1974 by the Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health in Zagreb, provides a 24-hour telephone guidance for poisoning emergencies, information and consultations on toxic exposure for occupational health physicians, professional and public health education in toxicology and poison control and other poison preven...

1,3-Butadiene, a high-production volume chemical used largely in the manufacture of synthetic rubber, is a multiple organ carcinogen in rats and mice. In inhalation studies conducted in mice by the National Toxicology Program, high rates of early lethal lymphomas occurring at exposure levels of 625 ppm or higher reduced the development and expression of later developing tumors at other sites. U...

This ambitious volume, soon to be published as a separate issue of the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, is presented as a hardbound edition, which is a unique publishing venture. After an historical review of perspectives of occupational cancer, the book proceeds through five sections: Current Aspects of Occupational Cancer; Carcinogenesis at the Molecular Level; Detection of Che...