This article is a description of the current situation in France with regard to occupational cancer: research, prevention, and occupation. Toxicologic experiments are carried out using (italic)in vitro(/italic) and (italic)in vivo(/italic) tests, particularly using transgenic mice. Several epidemiologic studies have been conducted over the last decades: population-based case-control studies; mo...

Problem-based learning has been used as a curricular modality in the academic year of the Occupational Medicine Residency Program. The method was applied to the resolution of problems presented by patients referred to a university clinic specifically for the determination of possible work-relatedness of the syndrome or symptoms presented. Following the usual development of the occupational and ...

SfaNl Polymorphism Distinguishes the Alleles of the Glycophorin A Locus That Determine the MN Blood Group S.H. Sharon H. Leos W.L. William L. Bigbee R.H. Ronald H. Jensen S.G. Stephen G. Grant Biomedical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif., Center for Environmental and Occupational Health and Toxicology, University of Pittsburgh, and Molecular Carcinogen...

Isabell Greeve,1,2 Doris Kretzschmar,3 Jakob-Andreas Tschäpe,3 Anika Beyn,1,5 Claire Brellinger,1 Michaela Schweizer,1 Roger M. Nitsch,1,4 and Rita Reifegerste1,5 1Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Hamburg, 20251 Hamburg, Germany, 2Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland, 3Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicolo...

Institute of Hygiene and Occupational Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (E.D., U.v.R., I.S., I.P., A.W.R.), Institute of Environmental Analysis, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (L.M.H., S.R., A.V.H.), Chemical Research Department, Matís, Reykjavík, Iceland (S.R.), Department of Traumatology, TU Munich, Germany (L.H., A.N.), Department of Toxicology...

Insutitute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan, Bio-multisome Research Team, Structural Physiology Research Group, RIKEN Harima Institute, Mikazuki Sayo, Hyogo 6...

SYLVIE BRETON,1,2 NDONA N. NSUMU,1 THIERRY GALLI,4 IVAN SABOLIC,5 PETER J. S. SMITH,6 AND DENNIS BROWN1,3 1Renal Unit and Program in Membrane Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129; Departments of 2Medicine and 3Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02215; 4Institut Curie, Paris 5248, France; 5Unit of Molecular Toxicology, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational ...

INTRODUCTION Environmental factors contribute with 16% of the burden of disease in Colombia. A main obstacle in implementing national and regional environmental and occupational health policies is the limited knowledge on the local ability to study and control the impact of harmful exposures on health. OBJECTIVE To identify needs for research and training in environmental and occupational hea...

Carol M. Herak-Kramberger, Davorka Breljak, Marija Ljubojević, Mirela Matokanović, Mila Lovrić, Dunja Rogić, Hrvoje Brzica, Ivana Vrhovac, Dean Karaica, Vedran Micek, Jana Ivković Dupor, Dennis Brown, and Ivan Sabolić Molecular Toxicology, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia; Clinical Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis, University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croa...

Ivan Mikov1, Velibor Vasović2, Aleksandra Mikov3, Svetlana Goločorbin-Kon4, Karmen Stankov5 and Momir Mikov2 1Institute of Occupational Health, Medical Faculty, Futoška 121, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia ([email protected]) 2Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Futoška 121, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia 3Institute of Child and Youth Health Care, Medical Faculty, Fut...