# Presentation: 656502

## Your Health and the Environment: Resources from the National Library of Medicine

**Stacey J. Arnesen **
**Specialized Information Services**
**National Library of Medicine**

## Slide 2

## Toxicology and Environmental Health Information http://tox.nlm.nih.gov

***Premier ***
***portal for environmental ******health ***
***information***

## Tox Town:An Interactive Guide to Potentially Toxic Substances and Environmental Health Issues

## Tox Town goes Urban:City Scene

**Hospital**
**Construction site**
**Dentist office**
**EMF**
**Airplanes**

## Tox Town:  New US – Mexico Border Scene

## TOXMAPMapping EPA Toxic Release Sites

## Facilities releasing Benzene near St. Louis, MO

## Trends over Time

- Triangles indicate net increase or decrease from 1987-2002

## Links to Health Information 

## WISERWireless Information System for Emergency Responders

**Information tailored for emergency responders**
**Assist in identifying unknown substances**
**Emergency treatment and****containment information**
**Stand-alone with enhanced connected (wireless) capabilities**

## Scenario - Highway cargo tank overturned

**HAZMAT  Specialist is 1****st**** on scene...**
_**Substance:**_** ****Colorless liquid, smells like alcohol**
_**Symptoms:**_** ****Headache, dizziness, eyes irritated, nausea feeling**

**Notes:**
Huge chemical spill shuts down part of Interstate 30 in Hopkins County, East Texas
18 wheeler carrling 5,500 gallons of isopropyl alcohol (which is isopropanol)

17 people had to be treated for injures due to breathing the toxic chemical and a local school was evacuated.

Shutdown both sides of the interstate for majority of day

Liquid, colorless, alcohol-like odor – fruity, floral, sweet
Eyes – irritated, dizziness, headache, nausea, skin burning feeling

**Notes:**
Click to walk through views

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**Notes:**
Click to walk through views

## Scenario - Highway cargo tank overturned

**Isopropyl alcohol = Isopropanol**

**Notes:**
Huge chemical spill shuts down part of Interstate 30 in Hopkins County, East Texas
18 wheeler carrling 5,500 gallons of isopropyl alcohol (which is isopropanol)

17 people had to be treated for injures due to breathing the toxic chemical and a local school was evacuated.

Shutdown both sides of the interstate for majority of day

Liquid, colorless, alcohol-like odor – fruity, floral, sweet
Eyes – irritated, dizziness, headache, nausea, skin burning feeling

## Household Products Database http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov

_**June 2005**_**: 1,000 new products to be added  for a total of *****6,000***

## Household Products Database

_***Select  Category***_***:***
***Deodorant***
_***Select Type:***_
***Deodorant/***
***Antiperspirant***
***combination***
_***Select Brand:***_
***Arrid Extra Dry***

## Household Products:Brand Information

***Brand Information***
***Manufacturer***
***Health Effects***
***Handling/Disposal***
***Ingredients***

## Household Products:Health Effects

## Household Products:Ingredients

## Household Products:Chemical Information

## Haz-Map:An Occupational Health Database

***Links jobs ******and  ******hazardous ******tasks to occupational diseases, symptoms, & agents***

## Haz-Map:An Occupational Health Database

_**Search example**_**:** ***Potential causes of dizziness and chest tightness in farmers***

## Haz-Map: Organophosphate pesticide poisoning in farm workers

## Haz-Map: Organophosphate pesticide poisoning in farm workers

## TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov

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- Search **All** databases forthe effects of ***TCE ***on*** children***

**Notes:**
NLM’s premier toxicology and env. health resource is TOXNET.  TOXNET is a collection of a variety of types of databases, including online handbooks, bibliographic databases, information on the release of chemicals in the environment, and chemical names and structures. Here is a sample search.  Enter your search and all databases are searched and the number of records retrieved from each displayed.  Here we are looking for the effects of the chemical TCE (also known as trichloroethylene) on children.  Now click on the number next to HSDB or the Hazardous Substances Data Bank

## Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) Search Results

## HSDB TCE Record:Information on Children

**Human Health Effects**
**Emergency Medical Treatment**
**Environmental Fate/Exposure**
**Environmental Standards & Regulations**
**Chemical/Physical Properties**

**Notes:**
Here is the HSDB TCE record.  HSDB is an online handbook containing comprehensive information on the toxic effects of over 4,500 chemicals.  Information such as Human health effects, emergency medical treatment, environmental fate and exposure, standards and regulations, safety and handling, as well as chemical and physical properties are described.  Click on the type of information you are interested in on the left and the data appears on the right.

## TOXLINE

_***New Default:***_
**Search TOXLINE Core and **
**TOXLINE Special simultaneously**

**Notes:**
TOXLINE is a bibliographic database of toxicology literature from scientific journals, technical reports, ongoing research reports, and unpublished data submitted to the EPA.

## TOXLINE  Results

***Two windows appear; one for Core and one for Special***

## Coming Soon: New Look for TOXNET

## ChemIDplus

***Search screen similar to other TOXNET databases***

**Notes:**
New Look for ChemID (which we refer to as ChemIDLite).  The search screen looks like all the other TOXNET databases.

## ChemIDplus Spellchecker

## ChemIDplus Search Results

***Other Resources or “Locators” for TCE (tricholoroethylene)***

**Notes:**
Here we entered TCE and get a listing of other web links with info. on TCE

## ChemIDplus Locators

***Link directly to the NIOSH Pocket Guide Record for TCE***

**Notes:**
Here we clicked on the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemicals

## ChemID Advanced: Structure and Chemical/Physical Property Search

## ChemID Advanced: Structure and Chemical/Physical Property Search

## NLM Environmental Health Listservs

**What’s new from NLM’s Environmental Health and Toxicology Program**

**Environmental health issues in the news**

**Notes:**
How to keep up?  NLM offers two env. health listservs.  Both are announcement only and you rarely get more than one message a week for each.

The first is a way to keep up with our env. health resources.  After today, you may want to join and find out what’s new – new databases, additions to databases, etc.  Approximately once a week (and usually less often) you will receive a message about new activities or updates to our resources.

The second listserv is to keep up with env. health issues in the news.  Through medline plus you have access to the latest medical news from Reuters, NY Times, etc.  Rather than going to the medlineplus news and looking up environmental health, simply join the listserv and get a once a week message about env. health articles published in the popular press.

## For More Information on your Healthand the Environment 

_**Contact**_**:**
**Specialized Information Services**
**National Library of Medicine**
- _[tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov](mailto:tehip@teh.nlm.nih.gov)_
- _[http://sis.nlm.nih.gov](http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/)_

**Notes:**
I hope we’ve highlighted some of NLM’s long-standing and upcoming resources on environmental health.  There are many other interesting activities in NLM’s Specialized Information Services division which we did not get to highlight today, so please contact us if you have any questions or want more information.
We are starting a new NLM announcements listserv on environmental health and toxicology and we will pass out sign up sheets if you are interested in keeping up-to-date with our resources and services.  
Thank you for your time.