Series: Mind/Body Medicine in Occupational Health

Occupational Safety and Health Series

Occupational medicine in the National Health Service.

For many doctors working within the National Health Service (NHS), occupational medicine remains a specialty on the fringe of their awareness. Undergraduate exposure to the subject is limited in most medical schools and at postgraduate level health and safety training in relation to medical work is given little emphasis. The fact that the majority of those who work in occupational medicine are ...

The Connection Between Spontaneous Remission of Cancer and MindBody Medicine

Perhaps the most powerful demonstration of the natural healing power of the mind and body is the “spontaneous” disappearance of a normally fatal disease such as metastatic cancer. This stunning event has been recorded by medical doctors repeatedly in the annals of medicine. Without “adequate” treatment, and sometimes no treatment at all, cancer and other diseases simply go away. While the patie...

Occupational Medicine Occupational asthma

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

Occupational medicine in Korea.

South Korea achieved very rapid economic development between the 1960s and 1990s, with a focus on manufacturing, during which time primary industry strikingly dwindled. Recently, Korea’s economy has begun to change from one that is manufacturing based to an economy that is essentially service based. In the last 20 years, small businesses have greatly increased in number and the proportions of w...