Environmental Toxicology Diary

Opposite with retrospective epidemiology, prospective epidemiology highlights the current and ongoing investigation of a specific effect observed associated with a causative agent. So this is a looking forward study to determine the relationship between a causative factor with the disease or illness.

Similar with retrospective, prospective epidemiology will take two groups of study. One group […]

You have already learned the basic and definition of epidemiology study from previous post. There are two kinds of methods available for epidemiology study, retrospective and prospective study. These two methods provide a very different approach and behavior during the study. This post will only describe characteristic of epidemiology retrospective study.

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Epidemiology study is the study of the causative factors of an ilness or disease. These causative factors are associated with the incidence and distribution of disease within a specific population. So basically, it is just as same as toxicology study, both are aiming the same objective, finding out the etiological factor of a disease. What […]

This post will describe about three types of toxicologists which are regulatory, food and clinical toxicologist. Basically, these three types of toxicologist are working on the same objective, establishing safety value of toxic substaces exposed to human beings. The only differences are the method and location they are in dedication.

Regulatory Toxicologist
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The post will continue the discussion about the role and type of toxicologyst. Previous post already mention about mechanistic and descriptive toxicology.

Just like any other type of toxicologyst, forensic toxicologysts are involved in providing toxicological information in support of legal activities, criminals, laws. Drug testing and blood alcohol determinations, in support of DUI (driving […]