Ancient ritual bundle contained multiple psychotropic plants. eurekalert.org. May 06, 2019. A thousand years ago, Native Americans in South America used multiple psychotropic plants — possibly simultaneously — to induce hallucinations and altered consciousness, according to an international team of anthropologists. Yagué o ayahuasca (Sertox) The researchers found a ritual bundle in the Cueva del […]

The European Parliamente wants to ban microplastixs en cosmetics. By Michiel Roscam Abbing.  beatthemicrobead.org. 26/10/18. Breaking news: the European Parliament has embraced the environment commission’s report entitled Turning plastic wastelands into fields of gold, by a huge majority.  ¿Inofensivo dentífrico? (SerTox) The report, compiled by the European Parliamentarian Mark Demesmaeker, supports the Plastic Strategy, Europe’s strategy to […]

Benefits of Medical Marijuana May Outweigh Risks. By Liam Davenport. medscape.com. June 13, 2016. Medical marijuana users experience significant pain reduction with only minor adverse effects, a new study of cancer and noncancer pain sufferers who had previously tried conventional medications shows. Pesach Shvartzman, MD, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, found that using medical […]

Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health.thelancet.com. July 16, 2015.  Executive Summary. By almost any measure, human health is better now than at any time in history. Life expectancy has soared from 47 years in 1950–1955, to 69 years in 2005–2010, and death rates in children […]

Occupational link in kidney disease epidemic in Central America. sciencedaily.com. February 2, 2015. Summary:Sugarcane workers in northwestern Nicaragua experienced a decline in kidney function during the harvest, with field workers at greatest risk, suggesting that heat stress or other occupational factors may be playing a role in the high rates of chronic kidney disease in […]

EPA Takes Action to Protect Consumers from Harmful Chemicals that can Cause Reproductive and Developmental Harm. epa.gov. December 10, 2014. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to protect the public from seven ethylene glycol ethers or glymes chemicals that can cause health effects including birth defects and blood toxicity. “Today’s action is […]

IARC MONOGRAPHS ON THE EVALUATION OF CARCINOGENIC RISKS TO HUMANS. Volume 100C (2012)Arsenic, Metals, Fibres and DustsView full volume in pdfView Lancet Oncology summary as html or pdfOrder this volume from WHO Press FRONT AND BACK MATTER  Cover  Contents and Note to the Reader  List of Participants  Preamble  General Remarks  List of Abbreviations  Cumulative Cross Index to IARC MonographsTHE MONOGRAPHSArsenic and Arsenic CompoundsBeryllium and […]

Byzantine monks used asbestos in wall paintings centuries before Industrial Revolution. By April Holloway. ancient-origins.net. April 01, 2014. Researchers have discovered that Byzantine monks used asbestos in plaster coatings underlying their wall paintings centuries before the fibrous material began to be used in the construction industry.  The material, which is now known to cause serious […]

Toxicological trivia from March 09, 2014: "the General"  is one between 20 donkeys working in the Inlasa ( National Institute of Health Laboratories ) in La Paz. .But Clinton remains  the oldest and the more spoiled. They have saved thousands of people who have been bitten by snakes. "Snake venom is extracted, it is injected […]

Countries:he boundaries shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the United Nations Environment Programme or the United Nations.http://www.mercuryconvention.org Signatories (Minamata Convention on Mercury) LIST OF SIGNATORIESNumber of Signatories: 93Number of Parties: 1ParticipantSignatureRatification, Acceptance (A), Approval (AA), Accession (a)Angola11/10/2013 Argentina10/10/2013 Armenia10/10/2013 Australia10/10/2013 Austria10/10/2013 Bangladesh10/10/2013 Belgium10/10/2013 Benin10/10/2013 Bolivia (Plurinational State […]

A Toxic Legacy. By Jack Newsham.yaledailynews.com.  September 08, 2013.The sun had just come out when graduation ceremonies began on Old Campus on a wet May morning in 1996. While a huge labor demonstration on the New Haven Green shook some students and their families, little of the clamor made it through Phelps Gate. The Yale […]