This study aimed to identify clinical correlates of hazardous drinking in a large cohort of Korean patients with depression. We recruited a total of 402 depressed patients aged > 18 yr from the Clinical Research Center for Depression (CRESCEND) study in Korea. Patients' drinking habits were assessed using the Korean Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT-K). Psychometric scales, includ...

Since 1993, the New York State Department of Health, funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, has collected data about non-petroleum hazardous substances releases through the Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (NYHSEES) project. This study investigates risk factors for hazardous substances releases that may result in public health consequences such as inju...

Heavy metal toxicity is one of the major current environment health problems and is potentially dangerous because of bio-accumulation through the food chain (Aycicek et al., 2008) and this can cause hazardous effects on livestock and human health (Aschner, 2002). In general, the hazardous effects of these toxic elements depends upon the dietary concentration of the element, absorption of the el...

BACKGROUND While scholarship on alcohol use and homelessness has focused on the impact of alcohol abuse and dependence, little is known about the effects of lower levels of misuse such as hazardous use. Veterans receiving care in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System (VA) constitute a population that is vulnerable to alcohol misuse and homelessness. This research examines the ef...

The Hazardous Material Removal Program will provide all academic departments and faculty with the opportunity to dispose of unneeded hazardous chemicals and radioactive material with no EH&S recharge. The disposal program will be organized building by building and advanced notice will be given to each department. Radioactive waste and materials along with routine chemical waste will be collecte...

Drinking water cannot be produced from every raw surface or groundwater in the European Union countries. The source must meetthe set criteria for quaility. At present time, drinking sources meet these requirements. However climatechange period, accompanied particular by long-term loss of volumes, limit values individual categories watermay frequently exceeded. Human society prepared this threat...