Massive Levothyroxine Overdose: High Anxiety—Low Toxicity

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-669
Author(s):  
RICHARD L. GORMAN ◽  
JAMES M. CHAMBERLAIN ◽  
S. RUTHERFOORD ROSE ◽  
GARY M. ODERDA
Keyword(s):  
American Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Poison Control ◽  
Collection System ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
The Past ◽  
Acute Ingestion ◽  
Wide Availability ◽  
Low Toxicity

The acute toxicity of levothyroxine ingestion is influenced by the dose ingested, the rate of conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3), and the level of medical intervention. Approximately 21 million prescriptions for thyroid products were dispensed in the United States in 1986, accounting for 1.4% of all prescriptions. This wide availability leads to frequent acute overdoses. In 1986, the American Association of Poison Control Centers Data Collection System documented 2,231 acute toxic exposures to thyroid preparations.1 Several articles have appeared in the past few years concerning the relative toxicity and treatment of a patient with an acute ingestion of levothyroxine preparations.2-7

Soviet and East European Studies in the United States

Slavic Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
American Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
World War ◽  
European Studies ◽  
East European ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academic

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies has been engaged over the past several years in a project to collect and analyze information on the Soviet and East European field. Some of the results of the work to date are presented in this report to the profession.The field of Soviet and East European studies is a relative newcomer on the American academic scene. Not until World War II was there any considerable interest in the region in the United States. At that time, however, the federal government found itself acutely short of specialists on the area and had to scrape a shallow academic barrel. The lack of expertise led to the establishment of new military and civilian training programs; and the changed international situation in the postwar period gave further impetus to the extension of academic programs.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-690
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Morning Session ◽  
Accidental Poisoning ◽  
Poison Control ◽  
Poison Control Centers

The second annual meeting of The American Association of Poison Control Centers will be held on October 6, 1959 at The Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois. An all-day meeting is scheduled: The morning session will be devoted to business activities; during the afternoon, papers on research, clinical and public health aspects of poisoning will be presented and discussed. The Association was organized in October 1958 to promote the exchange of information among its members on various aspects of acute accidental poisoning. It also expects (1) to promote amid encourage investigation into methods for treating such cases of poisoning and (2) to develop educational programs for their prevention. Its members are, for the most part, connected is some capacity with poison control and information centers in the United States and Canada.

scholarly journals New Challenges in the United States

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert O'Neil
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Private Colleges ◽  
American Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Professors ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Private Colleges And Universities

Academic freedom in American higher education evolves in curious and often unpredictable ways. For those who teach at public or state-supported institutions, the courts play a major role in defining the scope of such freedom. For faculty at independent or private colleges and universities, whose policies are seldom subject to court review, standards are provided by organizations such as the American Association of University Professors. Some faculties at institutions of both types may also be protected by collective bargaining agreements. After a decade or so with relatively few critical tests of the rights and liberties of US scholars, the past year or two has brought academic freedom to the fore in dramatic fashion. Three current tests merit special attention: the cases of John Yoo, William Robinson, and Ward Churchill.

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