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While poison control centers have traditionally provided expert consultations by telephone, on 30 December 2014 an online option was launched by a group of U.S. poison centers to meet the growing demand for accurate web-based health information. [11]
America's Poison Centers owns and manages a large database of information from all poison exposure and information case phone calls to all Poison Centers across the country. It is the only near real-time, comprehensive poisoning surveillance database in the United States.
From January to October, America’s Poison Centers received more than 7,250 calls about potential mushroom poisonings, an 11% increase from all of 2022, when there were about 6,500 calls for the ...
Its membership consists of clinical and research toxicologists, physicians, veterinarians, nurses, pharmacists, analytical chemists, industrial hygienists, poison information center specialists, and allied professionals.
Here's what the Drug & Poison Information Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital advises regarding returning home following the styrene leak.
Dr. William Rushton, a medical toxicologist and director of the Alabama Poison Information Center, said he and his colleagues began sounding the alarm about Neptune’s Fix in his state in 2019.
The National Poisons Information Service is an information service commissioned originally by Public Health England, and currently by the UK Health Security Agency as its successor agency, on behalf of the UK health departments. Poisoning accounts for 1% of NHS admissions.
The America’s Poison Centers said that there were 2,834 calls in 2023, a stark increase from 2022’s 2,323 calls. Assortment of Red Bull and Monster energy drinks in various flavors. Getty Images