Quantifying of highly radioactive and radiotoxic polonium-210 intake from cannabis (Cannabis sativa L.): impacts of different smoking and vaporization techniques.

This study investigates the radiation dose that humans receive from naturally occurring uranium-series radionuclides, with a focus on alpha-emitting polonium-210 (Po), which has a half-life of 138.4 days. Polonium is efficiently absorbed by living organisms and is estimated to contribute approximately 7% of the total effective dose from ingested natural internal radiation.

Changes in Hospital Admissions of Patients with COPD in Poland: A 14-Year Nationwide Analysis (2006-2019).

Poland is a country with a high burden of COPD and its risk factors. This population-wide and geospatial study on COPD in Poland, aimed to analyze changes in hospitalizations of patients with a diagnosis of COPD between 2006 and 2019 as well as to identify changes in the demographic characteristics of patients hospitalized with COPD. This is a retrospective analysis of hospital discharge records of patients with a diagnosis of COPD (ICD-10 code J44 and age 40 and over), hospitalized in Poland between 2006 and 2019.

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Use of selected amendments for reducing metal mobility and ecotoxicity in contaminated bottom sediments.

The aims of the study were 1) to assess the suitability of selected amendments for reducing the mobility of metals in sediments by evaluating their effects on metal sorption capacity, and 2) to assess the ecotoxicity of sediment/amendment mixtures. Three different amendments were tested: cellulose waste, biochar, and dolomite. The efficiency of metal immobilization in mixtures was dependent on pH, which increased with concentrations of amendment.