OBJECTIVE To study trends of dissertation and thesis production in workers' health in Brazil. METHODS Observation units were dissertations and theses developed by Brazilian researchers in national and foreign graduate programs. Theses and dissertations were identified in previously compiled works, LILACS and Capes database. Search keywords were workers' health, ergonomics, occupational hygien...

A concentrated review on the toxicology of inorganic mercury together with an extensive review on the neurotoxicology of methylmercury is presented. The challenges of using inorganic mercury in dental amalgam are reviewed both regarding the occupational exposure and the possible health problems for the dental patients. The two remaining "mysteries" of methylmercury neurotoxicology are also bein...

Allan W. Ader, Ph.D., DABT, Principal Toxicologist, John P. Farris, B.S., CIH, President and Managing Principal, and Robert H. Ku, Ph.D., DABT, Principal Toxicologist, are the founders of SafeBridge Consultants, Inc. (SafeBridge), 1924 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, California, USA. SafeBridge is a health and safety consulting firm to the pharmaceutical and chemical industry with services ...

The Internet is becoming an increasingly important source of information on cancer. This article highlights major sites of credible information on cancer and describes the types of information each of these sites contains. Large directories that help point the visitor to additional cancer-related sites are described, as are searchable databases of information on cancer as a disease, its diagnos...

1 Short-term Synaptic Plasticity. 2 3 4 Mykhaylo G. Moldavan and Charles N. Allen 5 6 Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Oregon Health & 7 Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, Oregon 97239-3098, 8 USA. 9 10 11 12 Running Title: Synaptic Depression in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus 13 14 15 Address for correspondence: 16 Charles N. Allen, Ph.D. 1...

OBJECTIVES The epidemiology of acute poisonings, observed in Toxicology Unit in Łódź, is the main objective of the study. The authors present frequency of respective kinds of poisoning cases and associated mortality. They discuss also the structure of poisonings with regard to type and causative agents over a period between 2003 and 2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data used for the analysis w...

medical toxicology is somehow a neglected field of medicine. support for this discipline is necessary as there are many competing interests within a nation's public health priorities (1). in the previous issue of the asia pacific journal of medical toxicology, the essentials of the empowerment of medical toxicology in the asia pacific region have been discussed (2). perhaps, there is now an urg...

Genomics and Environmental Regulation is a canonical compilation of fundamental issues of this topic by leaders in the field. This timely work focuses on the potential and problems arising from the application of genomic technologies to toxicology and environmental policy, and is divided into four parts—“Environmental Policy Perspectives,” “Legal Perspectives,” “Occupational Health Perspectives...

The Author Guidelines for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C) have been updated to address many issues. Please read the full version of the Guidelines online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN% 291552-8618/homepage/ForAuthors.html. Most noteworthy is the explicit recognition that assessing (and managing) environmental quality requires understanding the actual o...