OEMAC and Occupational Medicine

Occupational Medicine Occupational asthma

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

Occupational medicine and toxicology

This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central. Occupational medicine and toxicology belong to the most wide ranging disciplines of all medical specialties. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of diseases from the fields of occupation...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Editor-De Cock et al` note that waiting times to conception are significantly longer in the wives of men exposed to pesticides. They cite the evidence that the nematocide dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is associated with diminished sperm counts.2 It is worth noting that there is other evidence of hazard in these men. They reportedly have significantly high gonadotrophin concentrations although the...

Occupational medicine and the clinician.

Occupational medicine has been formally recognized as a specialty since 1978 but until recently it has been practised largely outside the National Health Service so that its content and scope may be unfamiliar to many doctors. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary has, as one of the features of the examination for Associateship, a requirement to pa...

Qualitative research and Occupational Medicine.