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Occupational Health
05
Mar

Electromagnetic fields in neonatal incubators: the reasons for an alert.

March 5, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1080/14767058.2017.1390559 Abstract BACKGROUND: Neonatal incubators are important tools for sick newborns in the first few days of life. Nevertheless, their electric engine, often very close to the newborn’s body, emits electromagnetic fields (EMF) to which newborns are exposed. Aim of this paper is to review the available literature on EMF exposure in incubators, and the effects of...
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04
Mar

Disruption of central and peripheral circadian clocks in police officers working at night

March 4, 2019
Published Online:27 Feb 2019 https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.201801889R Abstract Working atypical schedules leads to temporal misalignments between a worker’s rest-activity cycle and their endogenous circadian system. Several studies have reported disturbed centrally controlled rhythms, but little is known on shift workers’ peripheral clocks. Here, we assessed central clock markers, urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin and salivary cortisol, and clock gene expression in...
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22
Feb

The Prevalence of People With Restricted Access to Work in Man-Made Electromagnetic Environments

February 22, 2019
Research Publish Date : 2019-01-18 Journal of Environment and Health Science https://www.ommegaonline.org/article-details/The-Prevalence-of-People-With-Restricted-Access-to-Work-in-Man-Made-Electromagnetic-Environments/2402 Michael Bevington Abstract Some surveys have identified people who have restricted access to work in environments with man-made electromagnetic exposures. This study attempts to determine their prevalence, an aspect not previously investigated in its own right. It is based on analyses of the two...
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06
Feb

Australian Legal Firm – Compensation Lawyers for Wireless Exposure

February 6, 2019
Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash The increasingly wide spread use of WiFi across business and government (especially in schools) is a move that goes against the rapidly mounting body of credible scientific evidence which makes increasingly clear that exposure to even low levels of WiFi on an ongoing basis has a wide range of serious adverse health effects....
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24
Jan

Priartem PRESS RELEASE 23 January 2019 – EHS – New judicial advance in France – Recognition of electrosensitivity as an occupational disease

January 24, 2019
Source for this article: http://www.priartem.fr/EHS-Nouvelle-avancee-judiciaire-en.html?fbclid=IwAR08a3_kXRclym9jZapaO1IWlGiko87uEsylD6AbA0rB_tT4h-xJhM5w8W8 In a judgment of January 17, the Administrative Court of Cergy-Pontoise recognized the electrohypersensitivity of a research technician as an occupational disease. For Sophie PELLETIER, president of PRIARTEM, it is a double “first” : “This is the first time that the administrative jurisdiction – on which  civil servants depend –...
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22
Oct

Frequency of the resonance of the human sweat duct in a normal mode of operation

October 22, 2018
Biomedical Optics Express Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 1301-1308 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.9.001301 Saroj R. Tripathi, Paul Ben Ishai, and Kodo Kawase Abstract The applications of terahertz (THz) waves have been increasing rapidly in different fields such as information and communication technology, homeland security and biomedical engineering. However, study on the possible health implications due to various...
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13
Oct

France: Yvelines: A Man Recognized as a Victim of a Work Accident Due to His Electrosensitivity

October 13, 2018
13 October 2018 Credit for this post: Towards Better Health https://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.com/2018/10/france-yvelines-man-recognized-as.html Yvelines: a man recognized as a victim of a work accident due to his electrosensitivity europe1.fr, 10 October 2018 – translation : An initial medical assessment had concluded that there was “psychiatric” discomfort caused by “anxiety disorders” unrelated to the work environment. A man...
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17
Aug

NTP announces the peer review of the Draft Report on Carcinogens Monograph on Night Shift Work and Light at Night on Oct. 5, 2018

August 17, 2018
NTP announces the peer review of the Draft Report on Carcinogens Monograph on Night Shift Work and Light at Night on Oct. 5, 2018 (Fed. Reg. 83(160): pages 41093-41095, Aug. 17, 2018). Meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. EDT and continues until adjournment. The draft monograph will be available Aug. 24, 2018 on the Upcoming Peer...
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16
Jul

16 Jul Bob Willard – the Sustainability Advantage and sustainability champions

July 16, 2018
Bob Willard is a leading expert on quantifying the business value of sustainability strategies. He has given over a thousand presentations, has authored six books, and provides extensive resources for sustainability champions. He is an award-winning certified B Corp, a Certified Sustainability Professional, and has a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto. His...
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09
Jul

Spain’s Supreme Court considers an employee’s retinal detachment while working in front of his computer to be an occupational accident.

July 9, 2018
Via Reti-Care www.reticare.com – Spain’s high court gives the reason of a work-related accident for an employee while working as an administrative at a Social Security office in Spain. The decision was established by the Supreme Court in Spain, after studying the case of a Social Security administrative, who suffered a retinal detachment suddenly, while she...
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