Toxicology

DOI: 9/22/2006. The patient is a 46-year-old female sales representative who sustained cumulative trauma to her back. Based on the progress report dated 07/26/16, the patient complains of same aching pain of the low back, which radiates to the buttocks and posterior legs. She has numbness at the top of her right foot. She takes Norco and ibuprofen with good relief and tolerates it well. Pain levels are 8-9/10 without medication, coming down to 5-6/10 with medication. Her pain is worse with…

year-old obese male, living alone in Chicago, was found dead in his home. Patient presented with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and gout. Feet were swollen and necrotic along with poor vision. High levels of ketones were found in the urine and toxicology reports came back with metformin, glyburide, and novolin-N in the system Description of Gross Lesions: External Examination: Respiratory System: I examined the trachea and saw it in good shape and health. The right and left lungs look…

In recent years, food-processing intoxicants have become a major focus for world food organizations. In 2002, Swedish scientists first announced their findings of high levels of acrylamide in a wide variety of prepared foods (Tareke, E., et al. 2002). Since acrylamide was found to act as a carcinogen in laboratory animals and a neurotoxicant in humans, this finding created outrage around the world and brought focus to the matter of food processing safety (Council 2006). In the years following…

Being completely honest I never had an option on being bilingual. I never had the option of weather or not to absorbing the words of those late night novelas that spilled out of my dimmely brightened living room television, or early morning songs filling the kitchen with Chayanne or Los Tigres del Norte, and I didn’t have a choice on weather I went to Catholic Sunday school where I wrote and recited dozens of prayers by memory. It was never a choice because it was part of me and my culture that…

In the movie The Bone Collector, a forensic science movie, it is often portrayed as a movie that can be easily solved within a few hours based off shows that deals with forensic work like NCIS, Law and Order, Cold Case, and Snapped; but the solving time is often misunderstood. The Bone Collector is specifically based on forensic anthropology, which is the application of science to the physical by applying skeletal analysis and techniques in archaeology to solving criminal cases. Forensic…

starting point to changing the current situation in animal testing. The Three Rs – Replacement, Reduction and Refinement – are the guiding principles for more ethical treatment of animals in testing. In a publication written for Human & Experimental Toxicology, the 3Rs stand for “refining animal use to lessen or avoid pain and distress and enhance animal well-being, reducing the total number of animals required for specific studies, and replacing animals with nonanimal systems and approaches”…

Pregnant drug users should be charged with child abuse. When arguing why pregnant drug users should be prosecuted we must recognize and understand child welfare and the laws and or policies associated with child welfare. According to the Child Welfare government website, child welfare “ promotes the safety, permanency, and well-being of children, youth, and families by connecting child welfare, adoption, and related professionals as well as the public to information, resources, and tools…

Impact of a humanized rat liver model Having a rat model with a more-human like liver will allow investigators to better understand normal and diseased human liver physiology and biochemistry (82). It will allow us to test and compare the ability to repopulate livers with different cell sources which have had limited success in the mouse (3). Primary human hepatocytes have been shown to efficiently repopulate recipient livers (32), however with limited access to large quantities, researchers…

Before reading Maddalena’s essay “I Need You to Say ‘I’: Why First Person Is Important in College Writing,” I always thought that using “I” in an inquiry writing or any writing in college would be immature. It would look like my writing would be look down upon like if it were a middle school paper. I also feel like using too many “I’s” becomes repetitive, so this would become a weak writing because of the poor word choice. Maddalena mentioned that first person “has an important and irreplaceable…

Thomas Hartung, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who experts in evidence-based toxicology, argues that there are alternatives to animal testing. "We are not 70 kg rats." (Perkel,) Anatomically mice and rats are much smaller than humans. When testing, vaccinations for a disease they receive a smaller dosage than humans receive. Drug and…