Nerve conduction tests were performed on the right ulnar nerve of factory workers exposed to elemental mercury vapour. Time integrated urine mercury indices were used to measure the degree of exposure ...

Correspondence to: Dr C M Espino, Human Resources, Latin America/Caribbean Region, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street, Washington, DC 20433, USA; cespino{at}worldbank.org Objectives: Spouses and ...

Method for the detection and quantification of viral contamination during the preparation of gene therapy drugs in a hospital pharmacy ...

Objectives: Our main purpose was to investigate any relationship between noise exposure levels in the workplace, degree of hearing loss (HL), and the relative risk of accident (OR of single or ...

Correspondence to Dr Ewan Carr, Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; ewan.carr{at}kcl.ac.uk Objectives To characterise the baseline King’s ...

Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Correspondence to: Dr E S Wallen Department of Internal Medicine, MSC10 5550, 1-University of New Mexico, ...

Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece Correspondence to Antonis Analitis, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical ...

OBJECTIVES: An update of a study of workers exposed to 2-mercaptobenzothiazole (MBT) at a rubber chemicals plant in Nitro, West Virginia is reported. The earlier study found high rates of lung cancer, ...

3 Department of Chemical and Biological Working Environment, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway 4 Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health ...

Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA Professor John M Dement, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of ...

OBJECTIVES: Assessment of level of exposure to platinum and platinum concentration in urine from platinum industry workers to evaluate internal exposures and excretion kinetics. METHODS: Platinum ...