Introduction - To study the impact of the total ban on smoking in public places that took effect in February 2007, a monthly survey is conducted among employees seen by occupational...

This article is a commentary on the following study: "Timonen KL, Vanninen E, Hartog J, Ibald-Mulli A, Brunekreef B, Gold DR, Heinrich J, Hoek G, Lanki T, Peters A, Tarkiainen T,...

This article is a commentary on the following study: "Baccarelli A, Zanobetti A, Martinelli I, Grillo P, Hou L, Giacomini S, Bonzini M, Lanzani G, Mannucci PM, Bertazzi A, J Schwartz....

This article is a commentary on the following study: "Liao D, Heiss G, Chinchilli VM, Duan Y, Folsom AR, Lin H-M, Salomaa V. Association of criteria pollutants with plasma...

Current tuberculosis treatment is unsatisfactory due to its length (six months), its complexity (four drugs), and its ineffectiveness against multidrug-resistant strains. However, after...

Introduction - The detection of contagious tuberculosis in a community leads to the launch of an investigation which, given the number of people to be notified and contacts to be traced,...

This article is a commentary on the following study: "Finkelstein MM, Jerrett M, and Sears MR. Environmental inequality and circulatory disease mortality gradients. J Epidemiol Community...

This article provides an overview of the epidemiology of yellow fever and the serious adverse effects that may occur following vaccination. Yellow fever is currently a spreading disease...

Introduction. The Amaril vaccine (YFV, yellow fever vaccine) is a live-attenuated vaccine that is theoretically contraindicated in immunocompromised patients due to the potential risk of...

Epidemiological studies of the general population conducted over the past thirty years have demonstrated a causal relationship between exposure to dust, gases, fumes, and vapors and...