Earlier this year, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd published a column describing her misadventures with legalized edible marijuana products in Denver, shortly after recreational marijuana was legalized in Colorado. Apparently

Diagnosing brain death is an endeavor fraught with peril, especially when drug overdose is a possible cause of deep coma. In this episode, we will talk about a famous case from New York in which a patient awoke on the operating table just as surgeons were

Most poisons get absorbed systemically and cause havoc in various biochemical and physiological operations. Some are caustics or irritants that can damage skin or mucosa. Very few explode, In episode 3 of the TPR podcast, we cover those that can go kaboom

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Chinese restaurant. Episode #2 of the TPR podcast features the toxicology of Chinese food, including Hunan hand, durian-induced hyperkalemia, the soy sauce challenge, and more! To read the show notes,

The controversial case report concerning a patient with "krokodil"-induced soft tissue damage, which appeared as an unedited manuscript on the American Journal of Medicine, and then disappeared mysteriously and without explanation, was discussed on Episod

30 year old male from St. Louis area presents with left arm pain after injecting a “cheaper homemade [heroin] substitute prepared from codeine” presumed to be krokodil.