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  1. Methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), a reactive chemical used for commercial polyurethane production, is a well-recognized cause of occupational asthma. The major focus of disease prevention efforts to date ...

    Authors: Adam V Wisnewski, Lan Xu, Eve Robinson, Jian Liu, Carrie A Redlich and Christina A Herrick
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:6
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  2. Primary prevention programs at the worksite can improve employee health and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease. Programs that include a web-based health risk assessment (HRA) with tailored feedback ho...

    Authors: Ersen B Colkesen, Maurice AJ Niessen, Niels Peek, Sandra Vosbergen, Roderik A Kraaijenhagen, Coenraad K van Kalken, Jan GP Tijssen and Ron JG Peters
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:5
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  3. Chlorpyrifos (CPF), a commonly used pesticide worldwide, has been reported to produce neurobehavioural changes. Dermal exposure to CPF is common in industries and agriculture. This study estimates changes in g...

    Authors: Kian Loong Lim, Annie Tay, Vishna Devi Nadarajah and Nilesh Kumar Mitra
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:4
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  4. Pollutants representative of common environmental contaminants induce intracellular toxicity in human cells, which is generally amplified in combinations. We wanted to test the common pathways of intoxication ...

    Authors: Céline Gasnier, Claire Laurant, Cécile Decroix-Laporte, Robin Mesnage, Emilie Clair, Carine Travert and Gilles-Eric Séralini
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:3
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  6. Electrodiagnostic Functional Assessment (EFA) objectively evaluates injuries to muscles by incorporating surface electromyography (EMG) to measure myoelectrical signals of muscle groups recorded from up to 18 ...

    Authors: John Kulin and MaryRose Reaston
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2011 6:1
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  8. Worldwide used pesticides containing different adjuvants like Roundup formulations, which are glyphosate-based herbicides, can provoke some in vivo toxicity and in human cells. These pesticides are commonly fo...

    Authors: Céline Gasnier, Nora Benachour, Emilie Clair, Carine Travert, Frédéric Langlois, Claire Laurant, Cécile Decroix-Laporte and Gilles-Eric Séralini
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:29
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  9. Most of hydrogen sulfide poisoning has been reported as industrial accidents in Japan. However, since January 2008, a burgeoning of suicide attempts using homemade hydrogen sulfide gas has become evident. By A...

    Authors: Daiichi Morii, Yasusuke Miyagatani, Naohisa Nakamae, Masaki Murao and Kiyomi Taniyama
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:28
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  10. Anyone working in the hospital may become a victim of violence. The effects of violence can range in intensity and include the following: minor physical injuries, serious physical injuries, temporary or perman...

    Authors: Jihane Belayachi, Kamal Berrechid, Fatiha Amlaiky, Aicha Zekraoui and Redouane Abouqal
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:27
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  11. The ability of drugs to reduce noise induced hearing loss (NIHL) has been evaluated in diverse experimental conditions (animal species, noise intensities, durations, assessment techniques, etc), making it diff...

    Authors: Sharon Tamir, Cahtia Adelman, Jeffrey M Weinberger and Haim Sohmer
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:26
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  12. According to the Report on Carcinogens, formaldehyde ranks 25th in the overall U.S. chemical production, with more than 5 million tons produced each year. Given its economic importance and widespread use, many pe...

    Authors: Susana Viegas, Carina Ladeira, Carla Nunes, Joana Malta-Vacas, Mário Gomes, Miguel Brito, Paula Mendonça and João Prista
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:25
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  13. Hairdressers often come into contact with various chemical substances which can be found in hair care products for washing, dyeing, bleaching, styling, spraying and perming. This exposure can impair health and...

    Authors: Claudia Peters, Melanie Harling, Madeleine Dulon, Anja Schablon, José Torres Costa and Albert Nienhaus
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:24
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. A German cohort study on 1,528 carbon black production workers estimated an elevated lung cancer SMR ranging from 1.8-2.2 depending on the reference population. No positive trends with carbon black exposures w...

    Authors: Peter Morfeld and Robert J McCunney
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:23
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  15. The risk of tuberculosis (TB) in healthcare workers (HCWs) is related to its incidence in the general population, and increased by the specific risk as a professional group. The prevalence of latent tuberculos...

    Authors: José Torres Costa, Rui Silva, Raul Sá, Maria João Cardoso and Albert Nienhaus
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:22
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  16. Peripheral neuropathy is one of the principal clinical disorders in workers with hand-arm vibration syndrome. Electrophysiological studies aimed at defining the nature of the injury have provided conflicting r...

    Authors: Helena Sandén, Andreas Jonsson, B Gunnar Wallin, Lage Burström, Ronnie Lundström, Tohr Nilsson and Mats Hagberg
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:21
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  17. The current analyses focus on the need for services from the perspective of individuals considering preventive measures. A new approach imported from social and health psychology is used for assessing subjecti...

    Authors: Uwe Rose, Linda Zimmermann, Ruth Pfeifer, Thomas Unterbrink and Joachim Bauer
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:20
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  18. Lead is a significant occupational and environmental hazard. Battery industry is one of the settings related to lead intoxication. Published information on the use of oral chelating agents for the treatment of...

    Authors: George Dounias, George Rachiotis and Christos Hadjichristodoulou
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:19
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  19. Sleep disturbances induce proinflammatory immune responses, which might increase cardiovascular disease risk. So far the effects of acute sleep deprivation and chronic sleep illnesses on the immune system have...

    Authors: Anke van Mark, Stephan W Weiler, Marcel Schröder, Andreas Otto, Kamila Jauch-Chara, David A Groneberg, Michael Spallek, Richard Kessel and Barbara Kalsdorf
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:18
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  20. Organotin compounds (OTCs) have been widely used as stabilizers in the production of plastic, agricultural pesticides, antifoulant plaints and wood preservation. The toxicity of triphenyltin (TPT) compounds wa...

    Authors: Chung-Hsun Lee, I-Hui Chen, Chia-Rong Lee, Chih-Hsien Chi, Ming-Che Tsai, Jin-Lian Tsai and Hsiu-Fen Lin
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:17
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  21. Occupational demands of educators are not very well researched. Nevertheless their work is subject to several requirements. Whether these demands have an effect on the work ability and the health status of emp...

    Authors: Bianca Kusma, Albert Nienhaus, Michael Spallek, David Quarcoo, David A Groneberg and Stefanie Mache
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:16
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. A method of individually assessing former exposure to asbestos fibres is a precondition of risk-differentiated health surveillance. The main aims of our study were to assess former levels of airborne asbestos ...

    Authors: Michael K Felten, Lars Knoll, Christian Eisenhawer, Diana Ackermann, Khaled Khatab, Johannes Hüdepohl, Wolfgang Zschiesche and Thomas Kraus
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:15
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  23. Adults spend about one third of their day at work and occupation may be a risk factor for obesity because of associated socioeconomic and behavioral factors such as physical activity and sedentary time. The ai...

    Authors: Margaret A Allman-Farinelli, Tien Chey, Dafna Merom and Adrian E Bauman
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:14
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  24. The use of alcohol and drugs may affect workplace safety and productivity. Little is known about the magnitude of this problem in Norway.

    Authors: Hallvard Gjerde, Asbjørg S Christophersen, Inger S Moan, Borghild Yttredal, J Michael Walsh, Per T Normann and Jørg Mørland
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:13
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  25. Restrictive patterns of pulmonary function abnormalities associated with asbestos exposure are well described. Studies are less consistent, however, regarding the association of asbestos inhalation with airway...

    Authors: Belayneh A Abejie, Xiaorong Wang, Stefanos N Kales and David C Christiani
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:12
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  26. Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is one of the most common occupational injuries in the United States. It would be extremely valuable if a safe, inexpensive compound could be identified which protects worker ...

    Authors: Rickie R Davis, David A Custer, Edward Krieg and Kumar Alagramam
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:11
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  27. In April 2009 a novel influenza A H1N1/2009 virus was identified in Mexico and in the United States which quickly spread around the world. Most of the countries established infection surveillance systems in or...

    Authors: Sabine Wicker, Holger F Rabenau, Harald Bias, David A Groneberg and René Gottschalk
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:10
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  28. Diseases associated with smoking are a foremost cause of premature death in the world, both in developed and developing countries. Eliminating smoking can do more to improve health and prolong life than any ot...

    Authors: Bianca Kusma, David Quarcoo, Karin Vitzthum, Tobias Welte, Stefanie Mache, Andreas Meyer-Falcke, David A Groneberg and Tobias Raupach
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:9
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  29. Due to an increasing awareness of the potential hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws, rules and guidelines have recently been implemented globally. In this respect, numerous studies have addressed traffic...

    Authors: David A Groneberg, Cristian Scutaru, Mathias Lauks, Masaya Takemura, Tanja C Fischer, Silvana Kölzow, Anke van Mark, Stefanie Uibel, Ulrich Wagner, Karin Vitzthum, Fabian Beck, Stefanie Mache, Carolin Kreiter, Bianca Kusma, Annika Friedebold, Hanna Zell…
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:8
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  30. Increased risks of nasal cancer and lung cancer in nickel refiners have been investigated scientifically and discussed since they were detected in the 1930s. Nickel compounds are considered to be the main caus...

    Authors: Tom K Grimsrud and Aage Andersen
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:7
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  31. Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to repetitive work are common in manufacturing industries, such as the automotive industry. However, it's still unclear which MSDs of the upper limb are to be expected in t...

    Authors: Michael Spallek, Walter Kuhn, Stefanie Uibel, Anke van Mark and David Quarcoo
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:6
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  32. Due to constantly rising air pollution levels as well as an increasing awareness of the hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws and rules have recently been passed. Although there has been a large amount of ...

    Authors: Hanna Zell, David Quarcoo, Cristian Scutaru, Karin Vitzthum, Stefanie Uibel, Norman Schöffel, Stefanie Mache, David A Groneberg and Michael F Spallek
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:5
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  33. Although work related risk factors associated with Cardiovascular Diseases (CD) have been well researched, there is no detailed knowledge regarding disparate occupational groups each with a different risk expo...

    Authors: Danielle Hartung, Martina Stadeler, Romano Grieshaber, Sylvia Keller and Gerhard Jahreis
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:4
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Occupational cases with allergic reaction to fragrance substances, which refer to various chemicals providing aroma characteristics, are arising with its recent usage diversification from pharmaceutical, perfu...

    Authors: Mikiya Sato, Hajime Yoshiki, Masaki Horie and Eiji Yano
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:3
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  35. Due to the great socioeconomic burden of allergic diseases, research in this field which is important for environmental medicine is currently increasing. Therefore the European Union has initiated the Global A...

    Authors: Cristian Scutaru, David Quarcoo, Mohannad Sakr, Awfa Shami, Khaled Al-Mutawakel, Karin Vitzthum, Tanja C Fischer, Torsten Zuberbier and Beatrix Groneberg-Kloft
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:2
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  36. Seafarers play an important role in the transmission of communicable diseases. The aim of the present study is to draw information and identify possible gaps on occupational health practices related to seafare...

    Authors: George Rachiotis, Varvara A Mouchtouri, Clara Schlaich, Tobias Riemer, Carmen Varela Martinez, Gordon Nichols, Christopher LR Bartlett, Jenny Kremastinou and Christos Hadjichristodoulou
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010 5:1
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Back pain is one of the most frequent complaints in the nursing profession. Thus, the 12-month prevalence of pain in the lumbar spine in nursing staff is as high as 76%. Only a few representative studies have ...

    Authors: Kathrin Kromark, Madeleine Dulon, Barbara-Beate Beck and Albert Nienhaus
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:33
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Although stress is known to be a common occupational health issue in the veterinary profession, few studies have investigated its broad domains or the internal validity of the survey instrument used for assess...

    Authors: Derek R Smith, Peter A Leggat, Richard Speare and Maureen Townley-Jones
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:32
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. Although diverse definitions have been construed for burnout syndrome, most authors consider it to be a single phenomenon, the result of chronic work-related stress. However, in order to enable specific interv...

    Authors: Jesús Montero-Marín, Javier García-Campayo, Domingo Mosquera Mera and Yolanda López del Hoyo
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:31
    Content type: Hypothesis Published on:

  40. Using French cut-offs for the Tuberculin Skin Test (TST), results of the TST were compared with the results of an Interferon-γ Release Assay (IGRA) in Healthcare Workers (HCW) after contact to AFB-positive TB ...

    Authors: Dominique Tripodi, Benedicte Brunet-Courtois, Virginie Nael, Marie Audrain, Edmond Chailleux, Patrick Germaud, Frederique Naudin, Jean-Yves Muller, Martine Bourrut-Lacouture, Marie-Henriette Durand-Perdriel, Claire Gordeeff, Guyonne Guillaumin, Marietherese Houdebine, Francois Raffi, David Boutoille, Charlotte Biron…
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:30
    Content type: Research Published on:

  41. Although the risk of a herpes B virus (Cercopithecine herpes virus 1) infection is low, the clinical course of the infectious disease is generally unfavourable. A high safety standard can be achieved if people...

    Authors: Thomas Remé, Klaus Dieter Jentsch, Juliane Steinmann, Stephanie Kenner, Ulrich Straile, Eberhard Buse, Andreas Sauerbrei and Franz-Josef Kaup
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:29
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  42. As a consequence of the disintegration of the state systems and the expansion of the European Union, there have been marked changes in the political and social affiliations of the countries of Eastern Europe. ...

    Authors: Kathrin R von Hirschberg, Björn Kähler and Albert Nienhaus
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:28
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. During transurethral endoscopic prostate and bladder operations the influence of an ergonomic redesign of the arrangement of the operation equipment - including the introduction of a video-assisted resection m...

    Authors: Alwin Luttmann, Matthias Jäger and Jürgen Sökeland
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:26
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  47. While epidemiological methods have grown in sophistication during the 20th century, their application in historical occupational (and environmental) health research has also led to a corresponding growth in uncer...

    Authors: James G Heller, Philip G Thornhill and Bruce R Conard
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:23
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. Continuous shift schedules are required in the petroleum industry because of its dependency on uninterrupted production. Although shiftwork affects health, less is known about its effects on social and domesti...

    Authors: Cathrine Haugene Ljoså and Bjørn Lau
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:22
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  49. Psychotrauma occurs as a result to a traumatic event, which may involve witnessing someone's actual death or personally experiencing serious physical injury, assault, rape and sexual abuse, being held as a hos...

    Authors: Karin Vitzthum, Stefanie Mache, Ricarda Joachim, David Quarcoo and David A Groneberg
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:21
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. To study the association of workplaces and recent onset latent tuberculosis (LTB) in health care workers (HCW).

    Authors: Kittisak Sawanyawisuth, Naesinee Chaiear, Kanlayanee Sawanyawisuth, Panita Limpawattana, Janpen Bourpoern, Wipa Reechaipichitkul and Ken Takahashi
    Citation: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2009 4:20
    Content type: Research Published on:
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