Due to the great socioeconomic burden of allergic diseases, research in this field which is important for environmental medicine is currently increasing. Therefore the European Union has initiated the Global Allergy and Asthma European network (GA2LEN). However, despite increasing research in the past years detailed scientometric analyses have not been conducted so far. This study is the first ...

Introduction Whiteboards have, for the most part, replaced the traditional chalk board in the classroom setting. Potential for exposures to individual users has been investigated. For one user, even with heavy use, the maximum solvent exposure measured is <2 ppm of solvent. CPSC has recently been contacted by school systems that describe a new use of these markers. Whiteboards are cut up into s...

Man's experience and exploration of the underwater environment has been recorded from ancient times and today encompasses large sections of the population for sport enjoyment, recreational and commercial purpose, as well as military strategic goals. Knowledge, respect and maintenance of the underwater world is an essential development for our future and the knowledge acquired over the last few ...

You base your MRLs for copper of 0.02 mg/kg/d for acute and intermediate exposures on a study by Pizarro et al. (1999a) who found that gastrointestinal symptoms occurred when adults were exposed to a concentration of copper ≥ 3 mg/L but that there were no increases in symptom incidence at 1 mg/L. This study, however, as were other studies by this group, was designed to address issues of safe wa...

With this issue, Environmental Health Perspectives initiates a new series: Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine. In this new series, we will present cases drawn from real life that represent problems commonly encountered in environmental medicine. Some of the cases will be routine; others will have a twist, a twist that is not too unordinary, but rather is illustrative of some of the variatio...

Veterinarians in the United States of America and Canada are involved in a variety of activities which contribute to improving human health and well-being. Some of these activities can be considered as a part of veterinary public health (VPH), including: zoonoses control, food safety, environmental protection, comparative medicine, disaster medicine and animal welfare. Both countries have feder...

BACKGROUND Physician assistants (PAs) have been present in occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) in the USA since 1971, yet remarkably little is known about their activity. METHODS An administrative study of PA activities was undertaken and compared with the activities of physicians in the same occupational medicine setting. Patients were not triaged to either provider and all resourc...

1 Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. 2 Public Health, Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan. 3 Department of Preventive Medicine/Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making, Field of Social Life Science, Program in Health and ...

341. Heterogeneous regional distribution of nosocomial infections due to ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Germany: Data from the German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (KISS) Rasmus Leistner, MD; Christin Schröder; Christine Geffers, MD; AnnChristin Breier, MD; Petra Gastmeier, MD; Michael Behnke, PhD; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, ...