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The Israel Poison Information Center at Rambam Healthcare Campus is a branch of the Ministry of Health. It is the National Poison Center of Israel, and the only service of its kind in the country which provides expert advice on poisonings to the healthcare system and the general public. The telephone hotline is available 24 hours a day for inquiries related to poisonings (clinical toxicology), information on drugs (clinical pharmacology) and the effects of drugs, chemicals and other poisons during pregnancy (teratology) and lactation. The Center also operates at a national level in the area of poisoning prevention and preparation in the event of mass poisoning, as well as consulting to government agencies such as the Ministry of Health and the Medical Corps.
The Center's Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology Laboratory serves the Rambam Health Care Campus along with other hospitals, clinics and industries, mainly in the areas of therapeutic drug monitoring, emergency toxicology, occupational toxicology and special testing.
The Center is also academically oriented, providing lectures to medical students, residents, nurses and pharmacists, and in the research of poisonings through ongoing collaboration with universities and international professional organizations.
The Center's consulting staff is comprised of physicians with expertise in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Clinical Pharmacology, who have undergone extensive training in Clinical Toxicology.
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