Every year, many thousands of people die as a result of poisoning by pesticides; one of the commonest types of pesticides involved are the organophosphates. In a research paper published today in PLoS ...

Every year, more than three million people worldwide are exposed to organophosphates, chemical compounds that kill insects and plant pests. Of those, 8,000 exposures occur annually in the U.S. and may ...

A new study showed that organophosphate pesticides use increased in Monterey County while decreasing in areas across the ...

Objective To estimate prevalence of acute pesticide poisoning (APP) and its association with neurobehavioural symptoms in Ethiopian pesticide applicators. Methods We performed a cross-sectional survey ...

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 45, No. 2 (February 2003), pp. 118-122 (5 pages) Pesticides, such as parathion, are metabolized by cytochrome p-450 system to paraoxon, which ...

Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi has confirmed that an organophosphate was responsible for the deaths of six children from Naledi, Soweto. The children were rushed to the hospital in critical ...

Because little is known regarding the toxicity of PFAS-free AFFF formulations, the first phase of our project was focused on acute toxicity trials (e.g.., range-finding studies, lethal concentration ...

Patient with suspected poisoning is treated immediately by emergency staff, as signs of toxicity are A father is rushed to the emergency department after ingestion of a foreign, powderlike substance.