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Suicide by pesticide poisoning in India: a review of pesticide regulations and their impact on suicide trends by Bonvoisin, Toby, Utyasheva, Leah, Knipe, Duleeka, Gunnell, David, Eddleston, Michael

“…Pesticide self-poisoning is a common means of suicide in India. Banning highly hazardous pesticides from agricultural use has been successful in reducing total…”
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Applied clinical pharmacology and public health in rural Asia – preventing deaths from organophosphorus pesticide and yellow oleander poisoning by Eddleston, Michael

“…Self‐poisoning with pesticides or plants is a major clinical problem in rural Asia, killing several hundred thousand people every year. Over the last 17 years,…”
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The global distribution of fatal pesticide self-poisoning: systematic review by Gunnell, David, Eddleston, Michael, Phillips, Michael R, Konradsen, Flemming

“…Evidence is accumulating that pesticide self-poisoning is one of the most commonly used methods of suicide worldwide, but the magnitude of the problem and the…”
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Importance of pesticides for lethal poisoning in India during 1999 to 2018: a systematic review by Karunarathne, Ayanthi, Bhalla, Ashish, Sethi, Aastha, Perera, Uditha, Eddleston, Michael

“…Poisoning is a major problem in India. However, there is little systematic information on the key poisons responsible for most deaths by geographical area and…”
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Suicides by pesticide ingestion in Pakistan and the impact of pesticide regulation by Dabholkar, Shweta, Pirani, Shahina, Davis, Mark, Khan, Murad, Eddleston, Michael

“…Suicide is a major public health problem in Pakistan, accounting to approximately 19,331 deaths every year. Many are due to consumption of acutely toxic…”
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Letter to the Editor: Problems with studying community-level pesticide storage to prevent suicide by Sethi, Aastha, Eddleston, Michael

“…The approach includes a secondary school intervention to reduce suicidal ideation among adolescents, a community-level pesticide storage facility to reduce…”
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Suicide prevention through means restriction: Impact of the 2008-2011 pesticide restrictions on suicide in Sri Lanka by Knipe, Duleeka W, Chang, Shu-Sen, Dawson, Andrew, Eddleston, Michael, Konradsen, Flemming, Metcalfe, Chris, Gunnell, David

“…To investigate the effect of 3-year phased bans of the pesticides dimethoate and fenthion in 2008-2010, and paraquat in 2009-2011, on suicide mortality in Sri…”
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Prevention of suicide with regulations aimed at restricting access to highly hazardous pesticides: a systematic review of the international evidence by Gunnell, David, Knipe, Duleeka, Chang, Shu-Sen, Pearson, Melissa, Konradsen, Flemming, Lee, Won Jin, Eddleston, Michael

“…Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for 14–20% of suicides worldwide. Regulation aimed at restricting access to pesticides or banning highly hazardous pesticides…”
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Banning highly hazardous pesticides saves the lives of young people, particularly females, in low- and middle-income countries by Schölin, Lisa, Knipe, Duleeka, Bandara, Piumee, Eddleston, Michael, Sethi, Aastha

“…Abstract Pesticide self-poisoning is a public health problem mostly affecting low- and middle-income countries. In Sri Lanka, India and China suicide rates…”
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Suicide by intentional ingestion of pesticides: a continuing tragedy in developing countries by Gunnell, David, Eddleston, Michael

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A review of the natural history, toxinology, diagnosis and clinical management of Nerium oleander (common oleander) and Thevetia peruviana (yellow oleander) poisoning by Bandara, Veronika, Weinstein, Scott A., White, Julian, Eddleston, Michael

“…Nerium oleander (common oleander) and Thevetia peruviana (yellow oleander) are potentially lethal plants after ingestion. Poisoning by these plants is a common…”
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Endemic Nephropathy Around the World by Gifford, Fiona J, Gifford, Robert M, Eddleston, Michael, Dhaun, Neeraj

“…There have been several global epidemics of chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology (CKD ). Some, such as Itai-Itai disease in Japan and Balkan endemic…”
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Suicide by pesticide ingestion in Nepal and the impact of pesticide regulation by Utyasheva, Leah, Sharma, Dilli, Ghimire, Rakesh, Karunarathne, Ayanthi, Robertson, Gael, Eddleston, Michael

“…Nepal recorded 5754 suicides in 2018-19 - a high number for a relatively small country. Over 24% of these suicides were by poisoning, most by ingestion of…”
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VOCCluster: Untargeted Metabolomics Feature Clustering Approach for Clinical Breath Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Data by Alkhalifah, Yaser, Phillips, Iain, Soltoggio, Andrea, Darnley, Kareen, Nailon, William H, McLaren, Duncan, Eddleston, Michael, Thomas, C. L. Paul, Salman, Dahlia

“…Metabolic profiling of breath analysis involves processing, alignment, scaling, and clustering of thousands of features extracted from gas chromatography/mass…”
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Acute human lethal toxicity of agricultural pesticides: a prospective cohort study by Dawson, Andrew H, Eddleston, Michael, Senarathna, Lalith, Mohamed, Fahim, Gawarammana, Indika, Bowe, Steven J, Manuweera, Gamini, Buckley, Nicholas A

“…agricultural pesticide poisoning is a major public health problem in the developing world, killing at least 250,000-370,000 people each year. Targeted…”
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Reduction of adverse effects from intravenous acetylcysteine treatment for paracetamol poisoning: a randomised controlled trial by Bateman, D Nicholas, Prof, Dear, James W, PhD, Thanacoody, H K Ruben, MD, Thomas, Simon H L, MD, Eddleston, Michael, PhD, Sandilands, Euan A, MB, Coyle, Judy, BSc, Cooper, Jamie G, MB, Rodriguez, Aryelly, MSc, Butcher, Isabella, PhD, Lewis, Steff C, PhD, Vliegenthart, A D Bastiaan, BSc, Veiraiah, Aravindan, MB, Webb, David J, Prof, Gray, Alasdair, MD

“…Summary Background Paracetamol poisoning is common worldwide. It is treated with intravenous acetylcysteine, but the standard regimen is complex and associated…”
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Exploring fidelity of enactment in a cluster randomised controlled trial testing the effectiveness of ‘gatekeeper’ training for pesticide vendors in reducing self-poisoning in rural Sri Lanka: protocol for a multimethod qualitative study by Kanapathy, Rajaratnam, Agampodi, Thilini, Eddleston, Michael, Konradsen, Flemming, Pearson, Melissa, Sanjula, Bimali, Malalasekara, Charuni, Naseer, Nasman, Agampodi, Suneth, Weerasinghe, Manjula

“…IntroductionPesticide self-poisoning causes severe health and socioeconomic hardship in low- and middle-income countries, including Sri Lanka. A stepped-wedge…”
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Case fatality of agricultural pesticides after self-poisoning in Sri Lanka: a prospective cohort study by Buckley, Nicholas A, Fahim, Mohamed, Raubenheimer, Jacques, Gawarammana, Indika B, Eddleston, Michael, Roberts, Michael S, Dawson, Andrew H

“…Pesticide poisoning is among the most common means of suicide globally, but can be prevented with regulation of the most hazardous agents. We aimed to compare…”
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Co-Benefits of Largescale Organic farming On huMan health (BLOOM): Protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled evaluation of the Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming programme in India by Jaacks, Lindsay M, Bliznashka, Lilia, Craig, Peter, Eddleston, Michael, Gathorne-Hardy, Alfred, Kumar, Ranjit, Mohan, Sailesh, Norrie, John, Rajan, Sheril, Roy, Aditi, Yandrapu, Bharath, Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Nikhil, Prabhakaran, Poornima

“…The BLOOM study (co-Benefits of Largescale Organic farming On huMan health) aims to determine if a government-implemented agroecology programme reduces…”
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Magnesium sulfate and calcium channel blocking drugs as antidotes for acute organophosphorus insecticide poisoning - a systematic review and meta-analysis by Brvar, Miran, Chan, Ming Yin, Dawson, Andrew H., Ribchester, Richard R., Eddleston, Michael

“…Introduction: Treatment of acute organophosphorus or carbamate insecticide self-poisoning is often ineffective, with tens of thousands of deaths occurring…”
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