Question of the Day

Question: The neurotoxicity associated with the chemical n-hexane were first observed in workers in which industry?

Question: Many commercial mixtures containing which chemicals are known in the U.S. by the trade name Aroclor?

Question: What are the details of the classification system often used for endoscopic grading of esophageal injury secondary to caustic ingestion?

Question:  The combination of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT₃) receptor antagonist and dexamethasone is often recommended for the treatment of vomiting related to cancer chemotherapy. What other common complication occurs in this setting and is most often due to dexamethasone?

Question: What is the risk of future opioid misuse, after high school, in those high school students with legitimate opioid use before high school graduation?

Question: Polonium-210 was used as a homicidal agent in the well-publicized case of Alexander Litvinenko. Which decay related particle is emitted by Polonium-210 and is responsible for the adverse effects of this isotope?

Question: What are the so-called PAMORA agents?

Question: Saw palmetto extracts are widely used as self-treatment for a variety of symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia in men. What are the adverse effects associated with the use of saw palmetto?

Question: The reference cited below notes “Over the past decade, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) have been deployed as first- and second- line treatments for uncomplicated malaria across malaria-endemic regions. Since 2001, this deployment has included the delivery of over 500 million treatments of artemether-lumefantrine (AL), making it one of the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide”. What neurologic toxicity is of most concern in patients receiving ACTs?

Question: The co-ingestion of drugs in which class may potentiate the adverse effects of the drug loperamide?