But Upstate New
York Poison Center clinical toxicologist Jeanna Marraffa says the drug is used by opioid addicts to get high, or to help with withdrawal symptoms.
The Upstate New
York Poison Center reported 500 cases involving synthetic marijuana and similar drugs in 2015.
The Upstate New
York Poison Center is trying to drive that point home at the New York State Fair.
Not exact matches
«Lead
poisoning is still a big problem, a huge problem,» says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and director of the Children's Environmental Health
Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York City.
A proclamation was presented to Mary Beth Dreyer, Public Health Educator for Upstate New
York Regional
Poison Center.
Hoylman said there have been five calls to
poison control
centers in New
York City in the first 15 days of 2018 just for teenagers.
Dr. Stanley Schaffer, director of the Western New
York Lead
Poisoning Resource
Center in Rochester, said the consequences can be dire: Reduced IQ, learning disabilities and irritable - even violent - behavior.
Oneida County — with 36 bath salts incidents — and Onondaga County, with 35, have reported the highest number of bath salts emergencies in New
York state this year, according to the Upstate
Poison Control
Center.
In the last several years New
York University graduate student Julia Maritz and her colleagues at N.Y.U.'s
Center for Genomics and Systems Biology analyzed genetic material on 80 $ 1 bills and found roughly 3,000 types of organisms, including bacteria linked to pneumonia, food
poisoning and staph infections.
Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist with the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's New
York State Animal Health Diagnostic
Center (AHDC), explains how the New
York State Wildlife Health Program — a partnership between AHDC and the New
York State Department of Environmental Conservation that examines wildlife mortalities — recently discovered that out of 300 bald eagles tested in New
York state, 17 percent had lead levels high enough to cause death from lead
poisoning.