United Kingdom House of Commons Safety Group Recommends Carbon Monoxide Screening by Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM) to Reduce Misdiagnosis and Prevent Deaths.
New Evidence from London Ambulance Service Study Shows Five Masimo Rad-57 Pulse CO-Oximeters(TM) Detected 83 Unsuspected CO Poisonings in One Year--Over a Third of the UK Reported Annual CO Poisonings IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Masimo , the inventor of Pulse CO-Oximetry and Measure-Through Motion and...

Getting rid of old medicines? Don't flush!
Byline: RECYCLING By Sarah Grimm For The Register-Guard The growing surplus of unused and expired pharmaceuticals is impacting our environment in unusual and unsettling ways - as well as leading to increases in drug abuse and accidental poisonings. When drugs are flushed or poured down...

Child poisoning--a public health concern.
It's not unusual for school staff to deal with young students who are sent to the school nurse's office because they ingested something they shouldn't have. Most cases are not severe and may simply involve a preschool child eating paste, for example. However, a study published in the December...

Opiates a poisoning danger to young kids.
Poison centers receive thousands of reports of very young children accidentally ingesting opiates prescribed for adults in their households, according to a study in the September Annals of Emergency Medicine. Most of the poisonings involved hydrocodone or oxycodone, which are prescribed under such names as Lortab, Vicodin,...

Protect Your Family From 'The Silent Killer' This Winter.
Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week Begins Today SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- California's second annual Carbon Monoxide (CO) Awareness Week begins today and safety experts across the state are urging families to take steps to help protect themselves from this deadly gas, which often strikes when weather...

Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File.
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File Produced by Olga Konskaya; directed by Andrei Nekrasov; written by Nekrasov and Konskaya; cinematography by Sergei Tsikhanovich and Marcus Winterbauer; edited by Konskaya and Nekrasov; music and vocals by Irina Bogushevskaya; with Alexander Litvinenko, Boris Berezovsky, Andre Glucksmann, Marina Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi, Anna...

Secure alcohol hand rub dispensers.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] UK and Australian researchers have called for increased security of alcohol hand rub dispensers following reports of more than double the cases of ingestion and eye contact since their widespread introduction in health care facilities. The study of toxicology databases in the UK...

Environmental data assessment for use in public health surveillance.
Introduction Public health surveillance is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data on a health-related event for use in public health action to reduce morbidity and mortality and to improve health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2001). Data from a public health...

The methadone poisoning "epidemic": increasing use of methadone as a pain killer may be fueling a disturbing increase in deaths related to this potent drug.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Death and morbidity associated with methadone treatment has increased dramatically in recent years, largely in the population prescribed this drug for pain control rather than addiction maintenance. Inadvertent overdose is becoming increasingly common, likely in part because the drug's acute pain-relieving effect lasts only 4...

A perspective on food marketing in Asia.
The diet of Asian consumers--particularly Asian middle class consumers--is becoming increasingly "westernized." This is one of the intriguing conclusions put forward in a research paper presented to a conference organized by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in August 2007. The paper...