Patients with cancer increasingly ask what they can do to change their lifestyles and improve outcomes. Risk factors for onset of cancer may differ substantially from those that modify survival with implications for counseling. This review focuses on recent data derived from population-based studies of causes of cancer and of patients with cancer to contrast risk factors for etiology with those...

BACKGROUND The physical and psychosocial work environment is expected to modify recovery from shoulder disorders, but knowledge is limited. METHODS In a follow up study of musculoskeletal disorders in industrial and service workers, 113 employees were identified with a history of shoulder pain combined with clinical signs of shoulder tendonitis. The workers had yearly re-examinations up to th...

The study was conducted to assess the efficacy of an assistive tool to reduce the physical exposures of the ceiling installation task. Based on the idea of using a ‘deadman’ (long narrow piece of panel) to help hold the panels on the ceiling while installing them, a prototype tool was fabricated that could be placed on its own while supporting the ceiling. This tool, which was introduced to the...

3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) have been in the focus of CSCW research for some time. This paper presents a study comparing teamwork done in a CVE with teamwork done in a 2D remote condition and a F2F control condition. The tasks done were designed for groups without prior knowledge; they did not favor any of the environments. In some dependent variables, the 3D environment outper...

To contemplate discussing the strategic challenges in the Mediterranean at the present time without taking account of the geopolitics of the Sahel is simply unthinkable. The Sahel occupies a key location mid-way between the Mediterranean world and sub-Saharan Africa. A buffer zone but above all an area of contact and trade which cannot easily be controlled, the Sahel arc is fast becoming an end...

Chromosomal translocations in people who have lived in houses contaminated with radiation were substantially raised compared with controls. Retrospective biological dosimetry indicated cumulative exposures less than 1.0 Gy, which were lower than values derived from physical measurements.

OBJECTIVE To examine whether heavy physical workload in young adulthood increases the risk of local and radiating low back pain (LBP) in midlife. METHODS Longitudinal nationally representative Young Finns Study data among women (n=414) and men (n=324), aged 18-24 years in 1986 (baseline), were used. Physical heaviness of work was reported at baseline and follow-up (2007), and local and radiat...

Even though physical activity and sedentary behaviour are two distinct behaviours, their interdependent relationship needs to be studied in the same environment. This study examines the influence of urban design, neighbourhood built and social environment, and household and individual factors on the interdependent relationship between objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behavio...