Objectives We investigated the association between protracted low-dose ionising radiation and the risk of cancer in medical radiation workers, the largest group of workers with occupational radiation ...

Correspondence to Dr Luoping Zhang, University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; luoping{at}berkeley.edu; Dr Martha S Sandy, Office of Environmental Health ...

Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

Samples of paraquat dichloride and paraquat dimethosulphate are equitoxic when the LD 50 is expressed as mg. paraquat ion/kg. body-weight. There are wide species variations in the LD 50 and, of course ...

Correspondence to: Dr S Sadhra, Institute of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 TT, UK; s.sadhra{at}bham.ac.uk Background: There is limited research concerning ...

Correspondence to: Dr M J H Huibers, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; marcus.huibers{at}hag.unimaas.nl Background: Persistent fatigue ...

BUPA Organisational Psychology and Health Research Group, Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester University of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK Correspondence to: Dr E B Faragher ...

Background Several studies have investigated the impact of mobile phone exposure on cognitive function in adults. However, children and adolescents are of special interest due to their developing ...

Aims: This study examined the relation between months on the job and lost-time claim rates, with a particular focus on age related differences. Methods: Workers’ compensation records and labour force ...

Aims: Most industrialised countries have public income maintenance programmes to protect workers in case of disability but studies addressing disability risk of specific professional groups are rare.

Background: Both air and noise pollution associated with motor vehicle traffic have been associated with cardiovascular disease. Similarities in pollution source and health outcome mean that there is ...

Correspondence to: Prof. T S Kristensen National Institute of Occupational Health, Lerso Parkalle 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; tskami.dk If you wish to reuse ...