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Book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure To Chemical Agents  Volume 3

Download or read book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure To Chemical Agents Volume 3 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1985-02-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possible Long term Health Effects of Short term Exposure to Chemical Agents

Download or read book Possible Long term Health Effects of Short term Exposure to Chemical Agents written by Panel on Anticholinergic Chemicals Panel on Anticholinesterase Chemicals (Committee on Toxicology, Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure To Chemical Agents  Volume 2

Download or read book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure To Chemical Agents Volume 2 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1984-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possible Long term Health Effects of Short term Exposure to Chemical Agents  Cholinesterase reactivators  psychochemicals  and irritants and vesicants

Download or read book Possible Long term Health Effects of Short term Exposure to Chemical Agents Cholinesterase reactivators psychochemicals and irritants and vesicants written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure to Chemical Agents

Download or read book Possible Long Term Health Effects of Short Term Exposure to Chemical Agents written by Panel on Anticholinesterase Chemicals and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chemical Warfare Agents

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy T. Marrs
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2007-05-07
  • ISBN : 0470013591
  • Pages : 751 pages

Download or read book Chemical Warfare Agents written by Timothy T. Marrs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition has been totally revised since the successful first edition and expanded to about three times the length, with many new chapters and much more in-depth consideration of all the topics. The chapters have been written by distinguished international experts in various aspects of chemical warfare agents and edited by an experienced team to produce a clear review of the field. The book now contains a wealth of material on the mechanisms of action of the major chemical warfare agents, including the nerve agent cyclosarin, formally considered to be of secondary importance, as well as ricin and abrin. Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition discusses the physico-chemical properties of chemical warfare agents, their dispersion and fate in the environment, their toxicology and management of their effects on humans, decontamination and protective equipment. New chapters cover the experience gained after the use of sarin to attack travellers on the Tokyo subway and how to deal with the outcome of the deployment of riot control agents such as CS gas. This book provides a comprehensive review of chemical warfare agents, assessing all available evidence regarding the medical, technical and legal aspects of their use. It is an invaluable reference work for physicians, public health planners, regulators and any other professionals involved in this field. Review of the First Edition: "What more appropriate time for a title of this scope than in the post 9/11 era? ...a timely, scholarly, and well-written volume which offers much information of immense current and…future benefit." —VETERINARY AND HUMAN TOXICOLOGY

Book Review of Report and Approach to Evaluating Long Term Health Effects in Army Test Subjects

Download or read book Review of Report and Approach to Evaluating Long Term Health Effects in Army Test Subjects written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1942 and 1975, the U.S. Army conducted tests on human subjects to study the effects of a variety of agents, including chemical warfare agents, biological agents, medications, vaccines, and other substances. The tests investigated the immediate or short-term health effects from acute exposure to understand vulnerabilities to attack. Whether the exposures could have resulted in long-term health consequences to the test subjects has been assessed periodically, and the Army is required to notify subjects of information relating to potential health effects associated with exposure to the test agents. Most recently, a 2016 court injunction directed the Army to provide test subjects with new information about potential long-term health effects associated with their exposures, and to provide medical care if an injury or illness could be attributed to their participation in an Army chemical or biological testing program. In support of the first requirement, the Army contracted a report, Assessment of Potential Long-Term Health Effects on Army Human Test Subjects of Relevant Biological and Chemical Agents, Drugs, Medications and Substances: Literature Review and Analysis (the Report), to determine whether new information published since 2006 should be provided to the veterans. At the request of the Army, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine formed an ad hoc committee that was tasked with conducting an independent review of the Report. The committee assessed whether the Report appropriately identified potential long-term health effects that could have resulted from test exposures using an adequate weight-of-evidence approach. The general approach for evaluating agent- and outcome-specific associations as outlined in the Army Memorandum was also reviewed. An interim report of its overarching findings and their supporting evidence was prepared in February 2018. This final report provides additional detail about the basis of the committee's findings and recommendations. No new findings or recommendations have been added to this report.

Book Intelligence Assessments of the Exposure of U S  Military Personnel to Chemical Agents During Operation Desert Storm

Download or read book Intelligence Assessments of the Exposure of U S Military Personnel to Chemical Agents During Operation Desert Storm written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of the U S  Army s Health Risk Assessments for Oral Exposure to Six Chemical Warfare Agents

Download or read book Review of the U S Army s Health Risk Assessments for Oral Exposure to Six Chemical Warfare Agents written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-10-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Waste Incineration and Public Health

Download or read book Waste Incineration and Public Health written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-10-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incineration has been used widely for waste disposal, including household, hazardous, and medical wasteâ€"but there is increasing public concern over the benefits of combusting the waste versus the health risk from pollutants emitted during combustion. Waste Incineration and Public Health informs the emerging debate with the most up-to-date information available on incineration, pollution, and human healthâ€"along with expert conclusions and recommendations for further research and improvement of such areas as risk communication. The committee provides details on: Processes involved in incineration and how contaminants are released. Environmental dynamics of contaminants and routes of human exposure. Tools and approaches for assessing possible human health effects. Scientific concerns pertinent to future regulatory actions. The book also examines some of the social, psychological, and economic factors that affect the communities where incineration takes place and addresses the problem of uncertainty and variation in predicting the health effects of incineration processes.

Book Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision Making Process for Veterans

Download or read book Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision Making Process for Veterans written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-06-15 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has long recognized and honored the service and sacrifices of its military and veterans. Veterans who have been injured by their service (whether their injury appears during service or afterwards) are owed appropriate health care and disability compensation. For some medical conditions that develop after military service, the scientific information needed to connect the health conditions to the circumstances of service may be incomplete. When information is incomplete, Congress or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) may need to make a "presumption" of service connection so that a group of veterans can be appropriately compensated. The missing information may be about the specific exposures of the veterans, or there may be incomplete scientific evidence as to whether an exposure during service causes the health condition of concern. For example, when the exposures of military personnel in Vietnam to Agent Orange could not be clearly documented, a presumption was established that all those who set foot on Vietnam soil were exposed to Agent Orange. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee was charged with reviewing and describing how presumptions have been made in the past and, if needed, to make recommendations for an improved scientific framework that could be used in the future for determining if a presumption should be made. The Committee was asked to consider and describe the processes of all participants in the current presumptive disability decision-making process for veterans. The Committee was not asked to offer an opinion about past presumptive decisions or to suggest specific future presumptions. The Committee heard from a range of groups that figure into this decision-making process, including past and present staffers from Congress, the VA, the IOM, veterans service organizations, and individual veterans. The Department of Defense (DoD) briefed the Committee about its current activities and plans to better track the exposures and health conditions of military personnel. The Committee further documented the current process by developing case studies around exposures and health conditions for which presumptions had been made. Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans explains recommendations made by the committee general methods by which scientists, as well as government and other organizations, evaluate scientific evidence in order to determine if a specific exposure causes a health condition.

Book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002

Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2002 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Defense and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals

Download or read book Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate. The documents were developed by the National Advisory Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals (NAC). The subcommittee concludes that the AEGLs developed in those documents are scientifically valid conclusions based on data reviewed by NAC and are consistent with the NRC reports on developing acute exposure guideline levels.

Book Gulf War and Health

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2000-12-28
  • ISBN : 030907178X
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Gulf War and Health written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-12-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men and women who served in the Gulf War theater were potentially exposed to a wide range of biological and chemical agents. Gulf War and Health: Volume 1 assesses the scientific literature concerning the association between these agents and the adverse health effects currently experienced by a large number of veterans.