The heterogeneous class of what we nowadays call antipsychotics was born almost 70 years ago with the serendipitous discovery chlorpromazine. Their utilization is constantly growing because they are used to treat a diverse group diseases and patients across all age groups: schizophrenia, bipolar disease, depression, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, behavioural psychological sym...

EMBO reports (ER): The mission of the National Institute of Environmental Health Services is investigating the health risks of environmental chemicals and pollutants. There’s a whole zoo of compounds such as DDT, lead, tobacco smoke and many other pollutants that have eventually been banned or regulated after research demonstrated their health hazards. What do you think is now the most importan...

The last generation has witnessed bludgeoning of the world's population, a spike in disease burden, and unprecedented levels of pharmaceutical consumption and production. Unfortunately, pharmaceuticals have left their industrial and household confines and leaked into the environment. Pharmaceuticals are now major environmental pollutants, and are ubiquitous in waters and soils. Unlike other env...

wheat is a staple food in pakistan. production of wheat is increased with extensive use of phosphate based fertilizers in agricultural fields. activity mass concentration of primordial radionuclides due to use of phosphate fertilizers in soil enhances the external gamma dose and due to the consumption of wheat food grown on these soils also increases the internal dose. different types of soil, ...

The extensive use of petroleum and petroleum products leads to serious oil contamination of the environment, thus considerable interests were taken in microbial degradation and detoxification of these pollutants. Microalgae play an important role in the environmental cleaning of pollutants. Microalgae provide O2 to aerobic bacteria to mineralize pollutants and then take-up the released CO2 [1]....