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 ...

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

OBJECTIVES To examine environmental exposure and incidence and mortality of cancer in the village of San Carlos surrounded by oil fields in the Amazon basin of Ecuador. METHODS Water samples of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Ryan F Hoy, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; ...

1 Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV, USA 2 BioIntelligence Center, National ...

Correspondence to: Dr IJ Kant, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; IJ.Kant{at}epid.unimaas.nl In 1998, a large scale prospective cohort ...

Correspondence to Dr Ying Li, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; ying.li{at}gu.se Background Municipal drinking water contaminated with ...

Correspondence to: Dr G Swaen, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; g.swaen{at}epid.unimaas.nl Aims: To determine whether fatigue and need ...

1 Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7431, USA 2 Office of the Assistant ...