Occup Environ Med, 1 June 2010; Vol. 67, No. 6

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A new issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has been made available:
1 June 2010; Vol. 67, No. 6
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Editorial
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Basic protections are still lacking
Dana Loomis
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 361
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/6/361?etoc

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Commentaries
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Documenting neurotoxicity from occupational manganese exposure
Harvey Checkoway
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 362-363
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/6/362?etoc

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis in small underground coal mines in the United States
Anthony Seaton
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 364
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/6/364?etoc


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Original article
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Could mining be protective against prostate cancer? A study and literature review
Jennifer Girschik, Deborah Glass, Gina L Ambrosini, Lin Fritschi
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 365-374
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/365?etoc

Occupational determinants of serum cholinesterase inhibition among organophosphate-exposed agricultural pesticide handlers in Washington State
Jonathan N Hofmann, Matthew C Keifer, Anneclaire J De Roos, Richard A
Fenske, Clement E Furlong, Gerald van Belle, Harvey Checkoway
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 375-386
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/375?etoc

Employment status and the risk of pregnancy complications: the Generation R Study
Pauline W Jansen, Henning Tiemeier, Frank C Verhulst, Alex Burdorf, Vincent
W V Jaddoe, Albert Hofman, Henriette A Moll, Bero O Verburg, Eric A P
Steegers, Johan P Mackenbach, Hein Raat
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 387-394
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/387?etoc

Airway inflammation in cement production workers
Anne Kristin M Fell, Liv Ingunn B Sikkeland, Martin Veel Svendsen, Johny
Kongerud
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 395-400
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/395?etoc

Solvent exposure and cognitive ability at age 67: a follow-up study of the 1947 Scottish Mental Survey
Finlay D Dick, Victoria J Bourne, Sean E Semple, Helen C Fox, Brian G
Miller, Ian J Deary, Lawrence J Whalley
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 401-407
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/401?etoc

Air temperature and inflammatory and coagulation responses in men with coronary or pulmonary disease during the winter season
Regina Hampel, Susanne Breitner, Regina Ruckerl, Mark W Frampton, Wolfgang
Koenig, Richard P Phipps, H Erich Wichmann, Annette Peters, Alexandra
Schneider
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 408-416
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/408?etoc
Possible effect of environmental exposure to asbestos on geographical variation in mesothelioma rates
Stephen Goldberg, Gregoire Rey, Daniele Luce, Anabelle Gilg Soit Ilg,
Patrick Rolland, Patrick Brochard, Ellen Imbernon, Marcel Goldberg
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 417-421
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/417?etoc

An approach for estimating the health effects of changes over time in air pollution: an illustration using cardio-respiratory hospital admissions in
London
Cathryn Tonne, Sean Beevers, Frank J Kelly, Lars Jarup, Paul Wilkinson, Ben
Armstrong
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 422-427 Open Access
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/422?etoc


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Short report
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Coal workers' pneumoconiosis and progressive massive fibrosis are increasingly more prevalent among workers in small underground coal mines
in the United States
A Scott Laney, Michael D Attfield
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 428-431
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/67/6/428?etoc


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PostScript
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Mesothelioma risk from chrysotile
John T Hodgson, Andrew Darnton
Occup Environ Med 2010;67 432
http://oem.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/67/6/432?etoc

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