Prevention of occupational contact dermatitis is of utmost significance for both insurers and legislators because it can preserve the individual's ability to work and result in decreased costs for ...

Recently, researchers at the University of Michigan made public the results of an unusual study involving hand washing. When students washed their hands after making a choice (decision), they appeared ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up to 40 percent of workers will suffer from occupational dermatitis at some point in their working lives. People often read food labels to ...

Guidelines to a standard of care on occupational dermatitis and urticaria will be published in full in a future issue of Occupational Health. OH nurse adviser Diane Romano-Woodward provides a guide to ...

Among construction workers referred for patch testing, the majority tested positive for occupationally relevant allergens and nearly half were diagnosed with allergic contact dermatitis. Occupational ...

British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Apr., 1967), pp. 103-113 (11 pages) An examination has been made of the medical records of a group of white-skinned men, new starters in a works ...

Does the range of factors affecting dermatitis limit the value of evidence-based studies? In an August 2010 Occupational Health magazine article on the British Occupational Health Research Foundation ...

The humans are very rarely exposed to only a single chemical in the general environment as well as in the most occupational settings (Feron et al., 2002). The contemporary regulations and risk ...

Another tool used for the prevention of contact dermatitis in hairdressers in Germany is a special starter kit containing skin protection products such as creams and gloves along with information on ...