Getting Occupational and Environmental Medicine to developing countries

Getting Occupational and Environmental Medicine to developing countries.

For some years now it has been the policy of the BMJ Publishing Group to give free subscriptions to their journals to applicants from countries in the developing world. However, in practice this has had its diYculties. Many developing countries have either poor or non-existent postal services and granting a print subscription can often be problematic and expensive—the marginal cost of sending O...

Getting ADC to paediatricians in developing countries.

For some years now it has been the policy of the BMJ Publishing Group to give free subscriptions to its journals to applicants from countries in the developing world. However, in practice this has had its difficulties. Many developing countries have either poor or non-existent postal services so granting a print subscription can often be impractical and expensive—the marginal cost of sending AD...

Getting our journals to developing countries.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Editor-De Cock et al` note that waiting times to conception are significantly longer in the wives of men exposed to pesticides. They cite the evidence that the nematocide dibromochloropropane (DBCP) is associated with diminished sperm counts.2 It is worth noting that there is other evidence of hazard in these men. They reportedly have significantly high gonadotrophin concentrations although the...

Division of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Introduction Whiteboards have, for the most part, replaced the traditional chalk board in the classroom setting. Potential for exposures to individual users has been investigated. For one user, even with heavy use, the maximum solvent exposure measured is <2 ppm of solvent. CPSC has recently been contacted by school systems that describe a new use of these markers. Whiteboards are cut up into s...