This book, thoroughly updated from its first edition published in 1991, is designed as a handbook to provide tools for public health professionals and others interested in controlling or eliminating ...

Valerie Wolfe, chair of the Ontario Occupational Disease Action Plan Implementation Team, said occupation disease "is a serious and poorly understood issue in Canada. Incidence numbers are high.

Preventive action and a quick response to complaints can help employers reduce the estimated $8.5 billion price tag of occupational lung disease. The air, dust and fumes some employees breathe at work ...

The book “Modern Occupational Diseases Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management and Prevention” is intended to serve as a useful guide for all those who are interested in occupational diseases. These ...

The Pepper Center, one of UConn Health’s locations. The center is named after late senator Claude D. Pepper. Photo courtesy of UConn Health The annual occupational disease report for Connecticut was ...

A new California law aims to protect workers from silicosis, an incurable lung disease that has killed 29 people in the state ...

EXPERIENCE teaches most effectively when it comes in vivid and dramatic form. The loss of 350 lives in coal-mine accidents a year ago, in a period of three weeks, was so startling as to awaken the ...

A nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman’s compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while ...

North Carolina Representatives propose bills adding Covid-19 as a presumed compensable disease for individuals in certain types of employment. The North Carolina legislature has been fast at work ...

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder which affects the motor and non-motor systems within the human brain. As a result of this, those with the disorder develop deficits in mobility, ...