Arsenic poisoning
Arsenic poisoning interferes with cellular longevity by allosteric inhibition of an essential metabolic enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex which catalyzes the oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA by NAD+.
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Although doctors acknowledge that arsenic is a poisonous substance, they have been using arsenic trioxide to treat patients who have acute promyelocytic leukemia. Current findings demonstrate that the poison may be beneficial for patients who have other types of cancer.
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Arsenic might not be many people's favorite chemical. But the notorious poison does have some medical applications. Specifically, a form called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a particular type of leukemia for more than 10 years. Now researchers have shown that it may be useful in treating a variety of cancers.
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Find out what main stream media did not report about the latest Arsenic drug for cancer treatment!
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The deadly poison made famous in countless Agatha Christie mysteries isn't known for its health benefits. But an arsenic compound has helped treat leukemia sufferers for over a decade, and we've just discovered it can fight other cancers as well.
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An interview with Dr Manzurul Hassan: Emergence of groundwater arsenic contamination as a health and social hazard in Bangladesh, outline of policies developed in Bangladesh in response to these health risks and hazards, details of how people can protect themselves, outline of the role IHRR can play in addressing massive hazards such as this.
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Just when it seemed like the damage being inflicted by the Deepwater Horizon disaster couldn't get worse, along comes a study from British researchers that identifies another potential bit of deadly fallout from the oil: rising levels of poisonous arsenic in the Gulf and the marine life that inhabits it.
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It could be the worst mass poisoning in history. And the terrible irony is that it may all be due to an idealistic push to clean up drinking water for some of the world's poorest people.
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The poisoning is the result of well-intentioned efforts on the part of aid and development agencies in the 1970s when 10 million tube wells were built to combat waterborne diseases. While the new wells reduced exposure to some diseases, they also yielded water contamined with arsenic, which occurs naturally in the region.
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The exposure of 77 million Bangladeshis (half of the country's population) to toxic levels of arsenic over the past several decades has potentially killed or shortened the lives of millions. How did this happen? In the...
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