Major advances in the chemical industry have resulted in the development of a very wide range of chemicals and commercial products used to fight pests (weeds, insects and fungi), and to a large ...

Epidemiological studies have sought to better characterize and quantify the relationship between occupational noise exposures and adverse health outcomes. However, these studies are challenging to ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers’ historical internal radiation exposure. They focused their study on workers employed at the start of plutonium ...

Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a ...

Investigators analyzed 12 categories of workplace agents, but only the composite category of pesticides was found to be linked with developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A new analysis of ...

Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a ...

Problem/Condition: Many rural residents work in the field of agriculture; however, employment in nonagricultural jobs also is common. Because previous studies in rural communities often have focused ...

Objectives The aim of this study was to (i) construct and evaluate a gender-specific job exposure matrix (JEM) for mechanical and psychosocial work exposures and (ii) test its predictive validity for ...

Exposure assessment is an applied science that describes how an individual or population comes in contact with a risk factor, including quantification of the amount of the risk factor across space and ...