During the last century, devastating community-level exposures to mercury-contaminated grain in Iraq and seafood in Japan established the sensitivity of the fetus to mercury's toxic effects (Myers and Davidson 2000).
In summary, this report provides a novel mechanism by which lung epithelial cells communicate with alveolar macrophages after exposure to devastating stimuli.
Cyprus Popular Bank, the country's second-largest financial institution, formerly known as Marfin Popular Bank, has been seeking 1.8 billion euros, or $2.25 billion, in new money after being devastated by its exposure to bad Greek debt.
Both the bone marrow and bone architecture are devastated following radiation exposure.
Our data support those of other controlled studies in failing to demonstrate devastating early effects of prenatal cocaine exposure.
Women showing few symptoms of methylmercury exposure can still pass devastating doses along to their unborn children, as the Minamata case shows.
Although exposure to conflict may be devastating, families tend to group together even in displacement, which might have limited the strength of association below significance for this overall exposure.
Earlier evidence has suggested that long term job insecurity might be more devastating to health than a short term, transient exposure to job insecurity, 6 100 101 although this effect was not possible to examine in the present study.
While adults can be severely impacted by methylmercury exposure, effects on the developing fetus are devastating, and can result in microcephaly, cerebropalsy, seizures, mental retardation, blindness, paralysis, and other very severe consequences.
Although Goldman insists that it had hedged its A.I.G. exposure, a collapse of the firm would have been devastating for the financial system, Goldman very much included.
