Word: toxication
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...transfusions of red blood cells and platelets to keep him alive, plus hormones and other drugs to stimulate bone-marrow activity (it is impractical to inject patients regularly with normal white cells both because white cells ordinarily live only a short time and because the patient quickly develops toxic reactions). Teddy, it was hoped, would be protected from infection by the superclean room until his bone marrow revived. Judging from earlier cases, the doctors optimistically expected the case to be resolved in a matter of months, a year at the outside. The theory, says the NCI's pediatric branch...
...Congress and the President should give OSHA a clear mandate to perform its assigned task--and back up this political endorsement with increased financial support. Secondly, OSHA should undergo a thorough administrative housecleaning. Third, NIOSH funding should be increased so that safe exposure standards can be developed for potentially toxic substances used in industry...
Kathryn Miles, a Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) research fellow, suffered from a respiratory infection for two weeks last summer, after prolonged exposure to the solvent toluol. The solvent "did some real toxic damage," she said...
...plant should not be considered safe simply because a pet animal nibbles on it with no ill effects; it could still be harmful to humans. He also suggests avoiding smoke from burning foliage because even vapors may carry poisons. "Remember," he adds, "heating and cooking do not always destroy toxic substances, the mushroom being a prime example...
...deadly plants, with their toxic parts and the effects of eating them...