Ethnopharmacological relevance The use of herbal medicines for prophylaxis, prevention,
and treatment of various ailments is rising throughout the world because they are thought to …

Low levels of human medicines (pharmaceuticals) have been detected in many countries in
sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents, surface waters, seawaters, groundwater and some …

The impact of effluent wastewaters from four different hospitals: a university (1456 beds), a
general (350 beds), a pediatric (110 beds) and a maternity hospital (96 beds), which are …

This study overviews lessons learned from experimental investigations on dedicated
treatment systems of hospital effluent carried out worldwide in the last twenty years. It …

With questions emerging on the presence and risks associated with metabolites and
transformation products (TPs) of organic contaminants in the aquatic environment, progress …

Pharmaceutical residues in the environment, and their potential toxic effects, have been
recognized as one of the emerging research area in the environmental chemistry. The …

Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in the environment lately have been
acknowledged to constitute a health risk for humans and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems …

In this study, exposure and ecotoxicity data of six human pharmaceuticals (carbamazepine,
clofibric acid, diclofenac, ofloxacin, propranolol, and sulfamethoxazole) were collected …

Continuous input of pharmaceuticals into rivers, through wastewater treatment systems, may
cause adverse effects on the aquatic ecosystems of the receiving waterbodies, due to the …

The risks associated with occurrence of pharmaceuticals in water resources are mostly
unknown. In the absence of extensive toxicological data, we scanned all the compounds …