Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System 5. EGFR inhibitors as first-line therapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Your Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesPleural plaques related to "take-home" exposure to asbestos: An international case series
International Journal of General Medicine, 05/14/09
Peretz A et al. - The cases illustrate that “take-home” asbestos exposure may lead to pleural disease at higher rates than commonly realized. Relevance to clinical practice: Providers should recognize that due to the potential for “take-home” exposures, asbestos-related disease in a patient may be a marker for disease in household contacts. Patients with family members heavily exposed to asbestos should be strongly encouraged to quit smoking in an effort to reduce any further carcinogenic exposures. Additionally, workplace control and regulation of asbestos use should be emphasized to protect both workers and their families.
Related Articles
Occupational Exposure to Silica and Lung Cancer Risk in the Netherlands
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 10/20/09
Relevance Score: 69%
The health impact of nonoccupational exposure to asbestos: what do we know
European Journal of Cancer Prevention, 10/07/09
Relevance Score: 68%
Asbestos fiber dimensions and lung cancer mortality among workers exposed to chrysotile
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 11/06/09
Relevance Score: 67%
Asbestos-related cancers among 28,300 military servicemen in the Royal Norwegian Navy
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 11/18/09
Relevance Score: 66%
Occupational Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Lung Cancer Risk: a Multicenter Study in Europe
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 10/14/09
Relevance Score: 66%
Today in Occupational Health...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Noninvasive diagnosis of chronic beryllium disease in workers exposed to hazardous dust in Israel
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 12/14/09
Investigation of Occupational Asthma: Sputum Cell Counts or Exhaled Nitric Oxide
Chest, 12/11/09
Agreement in diagnosing occupational asthma by occupational and respiratory physicians who report to surveillance schemes for work-related ill-health
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 12/01/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor
Sponsor