Question Of The Day

Question: Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance. In what year was OSHA established

Question: What is patiromer?

Question: When a patient has inserted button sized magnets into both nares, what are the potential adverse effects?

Question:  Methadone is well known to cause prolongation of the QTc interval. How does the use of buprenorphine compare to morphine with regard to QTc interval prolongation?

Question: Maradol papayas are a large, oval fruit that weighs 3 or more pounds, with green skins that turn yellow when the fruit is ripe. The flesh inside the fruit is salmon-colored. The importation of Maradol papayas from Mexico has been associated with at least four (4) separate outbreaks of disease related to which organism?

Question: What is hexachloroethane and what are the common uses for this chemical?

Question: The name “Tango and Cash” was applied to which street drug?

Question: The manchineel (Hippomane mancinella) tree produces an extremely potent toxic sap containing diterpene esters of the tigliane phorbol and daphnane types. What is the usual manner in which humans become exposed to this sap and what are the clinical manifestations associated with this exposure?

Question: What is chuna and what toxicity has resulted from the use of this substance?

Question:  Describe the morphologic features of the calcium oxalate urine crystals that may be found in the urine of individuals who ingested ethylene glycol.