Medicating the environment
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2014 · Science & Technology
Expanding and aging human populations require ever increasing amounts of pharmaceuticals to maintain health. Recent studies have revealed that pharmaceuticals, both human and veterinary, disperse widely in aquatic and terrestrial environments with uptake into a range of organisms. Pharmaceuticals are designed to have biological actions at low concentrations rendering them potentially potent environmental contaminants. An issue of Philosophical Transactions B introduces the latest research investigating the risks of environmentally relevant concentrations of pharmaceuticals to vertebrate wildlife and here guest editor Kate Arnold discusses some of the effects that pharmaceuticals have on wildlife. For further information see: http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2014/pharma.xhtml
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