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Potentially Malignant (Precancerous) Clinical Lesions
Some potentially malignant (precancerous) clinical lesions that can progress to OSCC include especially:
- Erythroplasia (erythroplakia): The most likely lesion to progress to se...
Environmental Contamination And Human Exposure
PCBs entered the air, water, and soil during the manufacture and use in a variety of applications. PCB wastes are placed in landfills. PCBs also entered the environment from accidental spil...
Classes Of Organohalogens And Background Information
Chlorinated hydrocarbons were synthesized as early as 1830. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were first synthesized in the early 1880s by Schmidt and Schultz (1881) and their commercial pro...
Neuropathology And Neurochemistry
The pathological hallmark of PD was considered to consist of intracellular eosinophilic inclusions called Lewy bodies. These occur inside neurons in the substantia nigra, presumably in dopa...
A Public Health Response Informed By Human Rights Principles
As the UNAIDS Director Dr. Piot points out, the exceptional nature of AIDS requires an exceptional response and that includes responding to the rights of infants, children, and adolescents....
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic And Orphaned And Vulnerable Children
Patterns of illness, human rights abuses, and orphanhood that characterize the global HIV/AIDS pandemic are not forged by chance. Rather, poverty and economic inequities, the absence of edu...
Potential Human Health Effects Of Air Pollution-Related Climate Change
The global nature of air pollution dispersion raises the issue of the potential impacts on global climate change of human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse g...
epidemiological Studies Of The Health Effects Of Present-Day Air Pollution
Although subsequent studies linking more routine levels of air pollution and adverse health outcomes are not as obvious, recent epidemiological studies have found statistically sign...
Human Health Effects Of Ambient Air Pollution Entry Of Air Pollutants Into The Body
The respiratory tract is the primary entry portal for airborne contaminants. It comprises three zones: (1) the upper respiratory tract (including the nose and throat airways), (2) the bronc...