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Dr S Whitaker, Institute of Occupational Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK s.c.whitaker{at}bham.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
Objectives To investigate how a standard ceiling mounted light-emitting diode (LED)-based bright light intervention affected alertness and neurobehavioural performance during three consecutive ...
Correspondence to Dr Ying Li, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Gothenburg, SE 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden; ying.li{at}gu.se Background Municipal drinking water contaminated with ...
Correspondence to Dr Sari Stenholm, Department of Public Health, University of Turku, Turku 20014, Finland; sari.stenholm{at}utu.fi Objectives Previous studies have produced conflicting findings on ...
Objective To estimate the association between occupational polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) exposure and female breast cancer. Methods Lifetime work histories for 1130 cases and 1169 controls ...
Background Older workers experience higher rates of fatal occupational injury than younger workers worldwide. In North Carolina, the population of older workers more than doubled between 2000 and 2017 ...
Correspondence to Dr Hiroki Ikeda, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Kawasaki, Japan; ikedah{at}h.jniosh.johas.go.jp ...
Objectives The natural history of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) after cessation of exposure remains poorly understood. Methods We characterised the development of and progression to radiographic ...
Objective To evaluate the associations between the evolution of household use of cleaning products with the asthma symptom score and its evolution over 8 years. Methods Our study is based on 509 women ...
Correspondence to Dr Christine G Parks, Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA; parks1{at}niehs.nih.gov Objectives Farming has ...
Correspondence to Dr Jeri L Anderson, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA; JLAnderson{at}cdc.gov Objective ...
Objectives Established prostate cancer (PCa) risk factors include age, family history of PCa and African ancestry. Studies, mostly among highly screened, predominantly European ancestral populations, ...