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 Governing Body of the International Labour Organization (ILO) approved a new list of occupational diseases March 25, replacing a list that had been in place since 2002. The list is intended to ...

Many people consider common skin rashes to be no more than an inconvenience. But to a staggering number of professionals in a variety of fields, they are a major concern that can result in loss of ...

Occupational diseases cause the majority of work related deaths states International Labour Organization (ILO) report MANILA, Philippines – Occupational diseases kill 6 times as many people each year ...

Exposure to dust and particles at work may increase the risk of chronic kidney disease, a new study shows. Among Swedish construction workers, followed since the 1970s, the risk was 15% higher among ...

Byssinosis is a lung disease that afflicts people who work with cotton and yarn and are exposed to the dust of these for long periods Earlier this month, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at ...

The draft regulations flow from recent amendments effected to Coida which introduce, among other changes, the concept of rehabilitation and reintegration as essential parts of return-to-work processes ...

IN his inaugural thesis (These de Paris, No. 707; 1939) Dr. J. C. Levy states that malaria is regarded as an occupational disease, for which appropriate compensation should be made, in certain ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Duc Kham, 43, was just coming out of anaesthesia after seven hours of having his lungs washed at the Coal and Mineral Hospital in Ha Noi. VietNamNet Bridge – Vu Duc Kham, 43, ...

SINGAPORE — Fewer people died at their workplace in the first six months of this year, but the number of confirmed occupational diseases — including three cases of a cancer often caused by asbestos — ...