Correspondence to Dr Jaana I Halonen, Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Jaana.Halonen{at}thl.fi Objectives Long commuting times are linked to poor ...

Background Little is known about occupational risk factors for meningioma. Objectives To study whether risk of meningioma is associated with several occupational exposures, including selected ...

Objectives Firefighters are potentially exposed to a wide range of known and suspected carcinogens through their work. The objectives of this study were to examine the patterns of cancer among Nordic ...

Introduction Recent case-control studies have suggested an increase in risk of non Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) among mobile phone users. We explored the association in a case-control study conducted in ...

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 ...

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Boron is a naturally occurring metalloid, widely distributed in nature. Boron is not essential for humans. People are exposed to boron mainly via drinking water, including bottled water, and food, but ...

1 Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, ...

1 Institute for Research in Extramural Medicine and Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2 Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the evidence for an association between hip osteoarthritis (OA) and physical work demands. Systematic searches were made and epidemiological studies on hip OA and ...

Lore De Raeve, Maastricht University, Department of Epidemiology, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, the Netherlands; lore.deraeve{at}epid.unimaas.nl Objectives: The aim of this prospective study was ...