Alternative drugs go global: possible lead and/ or mercury intoxication from imported natural health products and a need for scientifically evaluated poisoning monitoring from environmental exposures

BACKGROUND: With increases in globalization, cultural remedies from Chinese, Ayurvedic, Arab and other traditions have become more available to international consumers, offering unfamiliar “Natural Health Products” (NHP), used as alternative medicine or supplementary medicine. Contamination with tox...

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Autores principales: Budnik, Lygia Therese, Baur, Xaver, Harth, Volker, Hahn, Axel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0139-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-016-0139-0

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