614 research outputs found
Ragnar Rylander et Isabelle Megevand (sous la direction de), « Introduction à la médecine de l'environnement ». 1993
No full textR. L. Ragnar Rylander et Isabelle Megevand (sous la direction de), « Introduction à la médecine de l'environnement ». 1993. In: Revue Juridique de l'Environnement, n°3, 1997. pp. 463-464
Lung cancer risk in subjects exposed to organic dust: an unexpected and surprising story
No full textAttached_file-_SupplementaryMaterial – Supplemental material for Scattering-Angle-Resolved Optical Coherence Tomography of a Hypoxic Mouse Retina Model
No full textSupplemental material, Attached_file-_SupplementaryMaterial for Scattering-Angle-Resolved Optical Coherence Tomography of a Hypoxic Mouse Retina Model by Michael R Gardner, Ayesha S Rahman, Thomas E Milner and Henry G Rylander in Journal of Experimental Neuroscience</p
Lung sound analysis correlates to injury and recruitment as identified by computed tomography: an experimental study
No full textA benefit of reducing lung cancer incidence in women occupationally exposed to cotton textile dust
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Extension of the "hygiene hypothesis" to the association of occupational endotoxin exposure with lower lung cancer risk
No full textThe Emerging Federal Role in Growth Management
No full textIn his comment, The Emerging Federal Role in Growth Management, author Jason Rylander argues for a more prominent federal role in state and local land use decisions. The author champions the Clinton-Gore Livability Agenda, a recent proposal designed to encourage state and local governments to adopt certain land use restrictions in exchange for substantial federal funding. Urban sprawl and the resulting traffic congestion experienced by an increasing number of U.S. cities is the fuel behind this sweeping enterprise. Federal intervention in land use policy is not a new phenomenon. The comment documents the numerous federal housing and land use programs implemented in the New Deal era, and suggests that federal intervention into contemporary state and local land planning decisions should be endorsed rather than viewed with suspicion as a threat to federalism. The author evaluates the recent federalism jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court and concludes that conditioning federal funds on state and local acquiescence of their land use policies to the federal government passes Constitutional muster
Work related injuries: estimating the incidence among illegally employed immigrants
No full textAbstract Background Statistics on occupational accidents are based on data from registered employees. With the increasing number of immigrants employed illegally and/or without regular working visas in many developed countries, it is of interest to estimate the injury rate among such unregistered workers. Findings The current study was conducted in an area of North-Eastern Italy. The sources of information employed in the present study were the Accidents and Emergencies records of a hospital; the population data on foreign-born residents in the hospital catchment area (Health Care District 4, Primary Care Trust 20, Province of Verona, Veneto Region, North-Eastern Italy); and the estimated proportion of illegally employed workers in representative samples from the Province of Verona and the Veneto Region. Of the 419 A&E records collected between January and December 2004 among non European Union (non-EU) immigrants, 146 aroused suspicion by reporting the home, rather than the workplace, as the site of the accident. These cases were the numerator of the rate. The number of illegally employed non-EU workers, denominator of the rate, was estimated according to different assumptions and ranged from between 537 to 1,338 individuals. The corresponding rates varied from 109.1 to 271.8 per 1,000 non-EU illegal employees, against 65 per 1,000 reported in Italy in 2004. Conclusions The results of this study suggest that there is an unrecorded burden of illegally employed immigrants suffering from work related injuries. Additional efforts for prevention of injuries in the workplace are required to decrease this number. It can be concluded that the Italian National Institute for the Insurance of Work Related Injuries (INAIL) probably underestimates the incidence of these accidents in Italy.</p
Exposure to Hydrogen Peroxide and Eye and Nose Symptoms Among Workers in a Beverage Processing Plant
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OBJECTIVES:
Two cross-sectional studies were undertaken on workers in a beverage processing plant to investigate the association between low H(2)O(2) exposure and symptoms of irritation (2005 study) and to investigate the effect of wearing respiratory protection (2006 study).
METHODS:
The study comprised 69 workers exposed to H(2)O(2) in sterile chambers and 65 unexposed controls. The exposure was assessed from measurements and work task information from employment records. The severity of work-related symptoms was evaluated using questionnaires. Data were analyzed by the Student's t-test, multiple linear regression and analysis of variance for repeated measures of symptoms.
RESULTS:
Symptoms of eye, nose and throat irritation were significantly (P < 0.001) more severe among exposed workers compared to controls. Exposure values were occasionally above American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) threshold limit value-time-weighted average (TLV-TWA) in the sterile chambers. The relationship between the severity of symptoms and the number of entrances in the chambers was significant (P < 0.0001) in 2005 but not in 2006, when respirators were used during work in the sterile chamber. No differences were found between exposed who entered a sterile chamber in 2005 but not in 2006 and exposed who entered a sterile chamber both in 2005 and 2006. This suggests that respirators provided an efficient protection and that the irritative effects of exposure to H(2)O(2) in 2005 did not disappear after 1 year.
CONCLUSIONS:
The source of risk was exposure in the sterile chamber, even though the time of exposure was generally only approximately 30 min. To ensure complete worker protection, there is a need for a short-term exposure limit for H(2)O(2) in addition to the existing ACGIH TLV-TWA value
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