Occupational clinic

Kapur S, Zipursky R, Jones C, et al. Relationship between dopamine D2 occupancy, clinical response, and side effects a double-blind PET study of first-episode schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2000 157 514-520. 

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For radiation doses <0.5 Sv, there is no clinically observable iacrease ia the number of cancers above those that occur naturally (57). There are two risk hypotheses the linear and the nonlinear. The former implies that as the radiation dose decreases, the risk of cancer goes down at roughly the same rate. The latter suggests that risk of cancer actually falls much faster as radiation exposure declines. Because risk of cancer and other health effects is quite low at low radiation doses, the iacidence of cancer cannot clearly be ascribed to occupational radiation exposure. Thus, the regulations have adopted the more conservative or restrictive approach, ie, the linear hypothesis. Whereas nuclear iadustry workers are allowed to receive up to 0.05 Sv/yr, the ALARA practices result ia much lower actual radiatioa exposure. 

Textbook of Clinical Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rosenstock L, Cullen MR, eds. (W.B. Saunders, 1994). 

B. The symptoms in Criterion A cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of fimctioning. 

The Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) has developed a network of clinics in the United States to provide expertise in occupational and environmental issues. Contact AOEC, 1010 Vermont Avenue, NW, 513, Washington, DC 20005 Phone 202-347-4976 FAX 202-347-4950 e-mail AOEC AOEC.ORG Web Page httD //www.aoec.org/. 

ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances. 

Tab. 3.4 Methods for the certification of RMs for eiemental content determination methods used by various RM producers for biologicai, environmental, clinical, agricultural, food, geological, occupational materials, and pure compounds ...

The first four materials (IRMM/IFCC-452, 453, 454, 455) are expected to be released during 2000. Projects on the certification of reference materials for cardiac marker (myoglobin) and total protein concentration in serum are under discussion. Even so the number of available CRMs for clinical chemistry and occupational toxicology is still limited. This has to do with the complexity of physiological compounds (e.g. proteins), the instabihty (e.g. enzymes), or the volatility (e.g. solvents). 

In clinical chemistry, a great number of components are to be determined. These components may be classified according to their physiological fimction. In occupational toxicology, a division into functional chemical components may be a better classification. 

In case of clinical chemistry/occupational toxicology subdivisions are followed according to fimction ... 

These elements are sometimes called toxic elements. Although many elements belong to this group, a few only are encountered in the clinical or occupational laboratory. This is also reflected in the literature. For this reason only the most common elements are mentioned. 

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