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Original Source: Carcinogenic risk assessment for emissions from clinical waste incineration and road traffic.
The most significant potentially carcinogenic substances arising from a state-of-the-art clinical waste incinerator (CWI) and vehicle emissions were identified as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), benzene, 1-butadiene, arsenic, cadmium, chromium and nickel. Long-term exposures of the notional maximum exposed individual (MEI) in the local environment, together with aggregate emissions from transport of clinical waste, were estimated. Mass emission rates of PAHs from...
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Early Embryo Viability Assessment Test (Eeva)
Auxogyn’s non-invasive Early Embryo Viability Assessment Test (Eeva) may improve in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes by providing IVF clinics and patients with objective information on embry...
UroGenRA - Genitourinary cancer array
UroGenRA is a CGI custom-designed oligonucleotide array for implementation within a clinical laboratory as an array CGH-based diagnostic/prognostic tool for kidney, prostate, and bladder cancers. It...
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The European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has recommended restrictions in the use of Protelos/Osseor (strontium ranelate) based on the outcome of a routine b...
In recent weeks, The Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended restrictions in the use of strontium ranelate (Protelos/Osseor) to reduce...
Genetic profiling and individualized assessment of fracture risk
Conventional clinical risk factors are currently used to assess fracture risk, but genome-wide association studies conducted in the past decade have identified genetic variants associated with fractur...
Fracture risk assessment advisable for glucocorticoid users
Men and women under 75 and 65 years of age, respectively, who use glucocorticoids should be considered for a fracture risk assessment...
Phenogen announces availability of breast cancer risk assessment test
Phenogen Sciences has announced the availability of BREVAGen Breast cancer risk assessment test for women at above average risk of developing estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer.
Test Assists Risk Assessment/Early Detection of Lung Cancer
A simple physician-ordered blood test aids in risk assessment and the early detection of lung cancer in high-risk patients.
European Medicines Agency’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has concluded that the benefits of Diane 35 (cyproterone acetate 2 mg, ethinylestradiol 35 micrograms) and its generics...
Transplantation: Assessment of liver allograft steatosis
Liver transplantation is a risky business and donated organs are second-hand. Grafts carry risk and the surgeon must match the graft with the recipient. Macrosteatosis >30% is associated with poor out...
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Evaluating the needs of risk assessment methods of potentially polluting shipwrecks.
Shipwrecks deteriorate and the probability of a release of oil increases with time on the sea floor. The potential leakage is a risk to the marine environment and may also have social and economic con...
International and national biosecurity policies consider risk assessment a critical component of overall plant health risk analysis. The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Meas...
Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk.
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death worldwide. Usually atherosclerosis is caused by the combined effects of multiple risk factors. For this reason, most guid...
Violence risk assessment: Available tools and instructions for use.
Violence management and prevention exceed the exclusive court intervention and require other professionals, such as psychologists, who can help in specialized tasks like dangerousness assessment and v...
