Of the growing number of migrant workers affected by pneumoconiosis, Echo Hui reports, only a few manage to get compensation as authorities turn a blind eye to occupational health and workers’ rights.

Occupational lung disease can be triggered by exposure to a range of different substances or conditions encountered in certain workplace environments. Perhaps most widely recognised are the risks ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Article ‘Count’ and ‘Share’ for Hangzhou Hospital for the Prevention and Treatment of Occupation Disease based on listed parameters only. According to the parameters selected above, there are no ...

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 ...

Rationale and objectives Obliterative bronchiolitis (OB) is a rare disease with a small number of established occupational aetiologies. We describe a case series of severe OB in workers making ...

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 ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that an individual's educational and career paths impact Parkinson's disease risk later in life. The investigators, led by Walter Rocca, M.D., a Mayo Clinic ...

One in 2 patients with Graves' disease suffers impairments to their everyday lives. Researchers describe affected patients' psychological stresses and occupational disability. One in 2 patients with ...

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, ...