Objectives Night work disrupts sleep, which may increase inflammatory processes, pain sensitivity and pain perception. We ...

Objectives Ionising radiation is a human carcinogen; however, there are uncertainties about the shape of the exposure-response function at low doses. We evaluated the relationship between radiation ...

Cadmium (Cd), a group 1 carcinogen, is linked to the development of pancreatic cancer. Not well-defined is the dose-response relationship between Cd and cancer development. This study investigated the ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the relative effects on performance of sleep deprivation and alcohol. METHODS Performance effects were studied in the same subjects over a period of 28 hours of sleep deprivation ...

Aims: To study the concentration of N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) and its metabolite, N-methylacetamide (NMA), in urine of workers occupationally exposed to DMA in a factory producing synthetic acrylic ...

a The Medical Centre, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland 4825, Australia, b School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Dr A Michael Donoghue, Senior ...

Correspondence to Dr Kyle Steenland, Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30307, USA; nsteenl{at}sph.emory.edu Objectives Determine ...

Correspondence to Professor Hsien-Ho Lin, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Rm706, Taipei 100, Taiwan; hsienho{at}ntu.edu.tw Objectives ...

2 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr C M Barber, Health and Safety Laboratory, Centre for Workplace Health, Health and ...

OBJECTIVES To construct a computer assisted information system for the estimation of the numbers of workers exposed to established and suspected human carcinogens in the member states of the European ...

Objective: To investigate the associations between Parkinson’s disease and other degenerative parkinsonian syndromes and environmental factors in five European countries. Methods: A case–control study ...

OBJECTIVES To to study the risk of cancer, particularly of lung cancer and bladder cancer, among workers in the printing industry according to different occupations. METHODS This is a population based ...