Bangladesh, the eighth most populous country in the world with about 153 million people,
has recently been applauded as an exceptional health performer. In the first paper in this …

The human use of toxic heavy metals is here to stay. In addition to intentional poisoning with
arsenic (40)(arsenic levels in the hair of Napoleon Bonaparte approached 40 ppm, more …

The health of tens of millions of people world-wide is at risk from drinking arsenic-
contaminated well water. In most cases this arsenic occurs naturally within the sub-surface …

The world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in
The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the …

Underground water in many regions of the world is contaminated with high concentrations of
arsenic and the resulting toxicity has created a major environmental and public health …

The environmental contaminant inorganic arsenic (iAs) is a human toxicant and carcinogen.
Most mammals metabolize iAs by reducing it to trivalency, followed by oxidative methylation …

The aim of present study was to develop a database of arsenic (As) in lake water, ground
water, sediment, soil, vegetables, grain crops and fish to evaluate the potential human …

Exposure to arsenic (As)-contaminated drinking water affects millions of people worldwide.
Arsenic exposure is associated with skin lesions, skin, lung, kidney and liver cancers …

Background In Bangladesh, tens of millions of people have been consuming waterborne
arsenic for decades. The extent to which As is transported to the fetus during pregnancy has …

This study is the first attempt to evaluate occurrence, distribution and potential health
impacts of As at a national scale in Italy. In various environmental matrices, As geochemical …