Major food adulteration and contamination events seem to occur with some regularity, such
as the widely publicised adulteration of milk products with melamine and the recent …

Major food adulteration and contamination events occur with alarming regularity and are
known to be episodic, with the question being not if but when another large-scale food …

Because the etiology and pathogenesis of scleroderma are largely speculative, effective
therapy is not available for this debilitating condition and its variants. This article reviews …

Autoimmunity is thought to result from a combination of genetics, environmental triggers, and
stochastic events. Gender is also a significant risk factor with many diseases exhibiting a …

Autoimmunity is thought to result from a combination of genetics, environmental triggers, and
stochastic events. Environmental factors, such as chemicals, drugs or infectious agents …

Disasters of industrial origin are usually overt, but sometimes their source is silent and their
occurrence diluted in time. Thus, the ascertainment of the health impact is not the sole …

Thirty-two toxic oil syndrome (TOS) patients were selected because they presented with
sclerodermalike changes and were observed during the first 36 months of evolution of the …

The identity of the etiologic agent that caused the 1981 epidemic of toxic oil syndrome in
Spain has not been established, and toxicologic study of oil specimens from the outbreak …

Autoimmune diseases may be induced by physical and/or chemical environmental factors. A
review of the available literature on mercuric chloride, iodine, silicone, anilides, l-tryptophan …

The word “bibliometrics” was coined by Alan Pritchard in 1969 to design the application of
mathematics and statistical methods to books and other media of communication (Pritchard …