13 articles in this issue
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Hua Zhang,Li Li,Xiao-Wei Sun,Chun-Ling Zhang
A 69-year-old woman was admitted to hospital 4 times from November 2007 to June 2009. The patient had silicosis complicated by broncholithiasis, esophagobronchial fistula, and relapsed tuberculosis. She had worked as a stone crusher for 3 years and was ex... see more
Mashallah Aghilinejad,Elahe Kabir-Mokamelkhah,Zahra Imanizade,Hossein Danesh
Background: Cancer has a high mortality rate in both developing and developed countries. 11%–15% of cancers are attributable to occupational risk factors.Objective: To determine if specific occupational classes, based on the International Standard for Cla... see more
Sayed Mohammad Taghavi,Hamidreza Mokarami,Omran Ahmadi,Lorann Stallones,Asghar Abbaspour,Hossein Marioryad
Background: Dairy farming work involves frequent use of poor postures. These postures may increase the risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders among dairy workers.Objective: To assess postural load during performance of various tasks related to dairy... see more
Ioannis D Anyfantis,Georgios Rachiotis,Cristos Hadjichristodoulou,Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis
Background: Workers in cotton industry are occupationally exposed to various dust-related hazards. The nature of these agents and the respective exposure levels depend on the cotton industry specific sector. These exposures could be associated with respir... see more
Antonella Rossati
Since the mid-19th century, human activities have increased greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the Earth's atmosphere that resulted in increased average temperature. The effects of rising temperature include soil degrad... see more
Sepehr Memarazad
Helen Ksinopoulou,Chryssa Hatzoglou,Zoe Daniil,Konstantinos Gourgoulianis,Helen Karetsi
Jade Le
We conducted this study to determine the risk of transmission of Q fever to health care workers (HCWs) during perioperative exposure to Coxiella burnetii-infected thoracic endovascular aneurysm stent graft. Pre-operative and 6-week post-operativ... see more
Prasanna Santhanam,Steven P Rowe,Lilja B Solnes,Mehrbod S Javadi
Andrew Punton,Elizabeth J Crossley,Natasha R Matthews,Sarah C Walpole
Umesh Jayarajah,Anuradha JA Jayakody,Janitha MBN Jayaneth,Sumedha Wijeratne
Tomoyuki Kawada