Background Zoonotic transmission of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 (LA-MRSA CC398) from industrial pig farms to farm workers and their household ...

OBJECTIVE To study the mortality from cardiovascular and other chronic non-neoplastic diseases after long term exposure to inorganic mercury. Limited information is available on the effect of chronic ...

Dr N Kawakami, Department of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, Okayama University Medical School, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japannorito{at}med.okayama-u.ac.jp OBJECTIVES To examine the ...

Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

1 School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

Objectives Police work is an occupation replete with stress. The present study examined associations between specific police stressors (overall, administrative pressure, physical threat, and lack of ...

2 Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Family Medicine and ...

5 The Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 6 National Research Centre for the Working ...

Background An estimated 110 million workers are exposed to welding fumes worldwide. Welding fumes are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as carcinogenic to humans (group 1), ...

Background: Evidence from toxicological studies indicates that the risk of respiratory diseases varies with asbestos fibre length and width. However, there is a total lack of epidemiological evidence ...

Correspondence to Dr Annunziata Faustini, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service of Lazio, via Santa Costanza, 53, Rome 00198, Italy; a.faustini{at}deplazio.it. Background An association ...

3 Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Objectives We examined the association of night shift work history and age when night shift work was performed with ...