Ms. Lipman signals Joyce's burgeoning self-assertion by raising her voice, so that the wispily spoken widow of the first act is suddenly trumpeting bromides in the second.
Living within 5 km of methyl bromide use in the second trimester of pregnancy was associated with decreased birth weight, length, and head circumference, despite a positive association between gestational age and residential proximity to methyl bromide use in the first trimester.
After adjusting for confounders, associations remained; each 10-fold increase of methyl bromide use in the second trimester was associated with a 21.4-g (95% CI: –43.2, 0.4) decrease in birth weight, a 0.16-cm (95% CI: –0.28, –0.04) decrease in birth length, and a 0.08-cm (95% CI: –0.15, –0.01) decrease in head circumference.
Model estimates did not support associations between methyl bromide use in the first or third trimesters and fetal growth.
Our finding that residential proximity to methyl bromide use in the first trimester of pregnancy was associated with longer duration of gestation is somewhat puzzling and counter to our expectations.
In most methods of lethal injection, pancuronium bromide is the second drug in a three-chemical sequence.
Oklahoma had planned to use a different drug – compounded pancuronium bromide – as the second drug in the method, but lawyers objected to the use of loosely regulated compounded drugs that may lack purity and cause an unconstitutionally cruel death.
Whereas the first type is lifted upon adsorption (of oxide, hydroxide, sulphate or bromide ions), the second type is formed in adsorbate dependent potential ranges.
In minimally adjusted analyses, increases in methyl bromide use near residences in the second trimester were associated with decreases in birth weight, birth length, and head circumference.
The judge blocked the state from using its supply of pancuronium bromide, the second drug in the state's three-drug cocktail.
