This book, thoroughly updated from its first edition published in 1991, is designed as a handbook to provide tools for public health professionals and others interested in controlling or eliminating ...

The book “Modern Occupational Diseases Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management and Prevention” is intended to serve as a useful guide for all those who are interested in occupational diseases. These ...

Preventive action and a quick response to complaints can help employers reduce the estimated $8.5 billion price tag of occupational lung disease. The air, dust and fumes some employees breathe at work ...

Colorado's second-highest court has ruled for the first time that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation benefits.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and British Medical Association (BMA) have jointly criticised the government's inaction on ...

Valerie Wolfe, chair of the Ontario Occupational Disease Action Plan Implementation Team, said occupation disease "is a serious and poorly understood issue in Canada. Incidence numbers are high.

Hudson v. Beebe Medical Center, S23A-10-002 NEP, 2024 WL 36063 (Del. Super. Jan. 3, 2024). Ms. Hudson worked as a front-line nurse for the employer on its COVID-19 floor in the Fall of 2020. She ...

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder which affects the motor and non-motor systems within the human brain. As a result of this, those with the disorder develop deficits in mobility, ...

Preventive action and a quick response to complaints can help employers reduce the estimated $8.5 billion price tag of occupational lung disease. "In any workplace where respirators are necessary to ...