TAKAHITO KONDO, First Department of Internal Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo 060 Japan NAOYUKI TANIGUCHI, Department of Environmental Medicine, the Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 Japan KAZUYA TANIGUCHI, Department of Pharmacology, School of Dentistry, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 Japan ICHIRO MATSUDA, Department of Pediat...

“International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health” (IJOMEH) is an English-language bimonthly (since 2013, earlier – a quarterly) founded in 1988 at the initiative of the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Łódź and the Main Board of the Polish Society of Occupational Medicine. IJOMEH popularizes the achievements of Polish scientific centers of occupational medicin...

Currently, nanotechnology revolutionizing both scientific and industrial community due to their applications in the fields of medicine, environmental protection, energy, and space exploration. Despite of the evident benefits of nanoparticles, there are still open questions about the influence of these nanoparticles on human health and environment. This is one of the critical issues that have to...

Smaller is not always better: nanotechnology yields nanotoxicology Howard M. Kipen1 and Debra L. Laskin2 1Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine Division, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; and 2Department of Pharmacology and T...

Occupational and environmental medicine traditionally dealt with elements, particularly with heavy metals. The interest was justified by the wide exposure in the workplace and in the general environment and by the evidence of their specific biological and toxicological effects. During the last 2 decades of 20th century the availability of indicators of exposure or of internal dose has substanti...

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