September 13, 2011 - 3:56 pm
The Partners in Prevention Forum North 2011 Health and Safety Conference and Trade Show will be held November 1-2, 2011, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and is the largest health and safety event in Northwestern Ontario. For more information on the conference, visit the Forum North website.
July 26, 2011 - 4:50 pm
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) Research Advisory Council has issued a request for research proposals that focus on specific workplace needs and build partnerships between workplaces, partner organizations, and researchers. The deadline for applications is Monday August 29, 2011. Click...
July 26, 2011 - 4:37 pm
The goal of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is to encourage research in the health sciences leading to "improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system." CIHR funds research in four areas: biomedical, clinical...
July 26, 2011 - 12:03 pm
In May 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) hosted a Working Group meeting of 31 scientists to discuss the health risks associated with exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs). As a result, IARC and the World Health Organization have classified EMFs as possibly...
July 14, 2011 - 11:09 am
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified night-time shiftwork as 'probably carcinogenic to humans' in 2007. Dr Joan Saary, an Occupational Medicine specialist, recently gave a presentation on the effects of shiftwork for the occupational medicine rounds at St. Michael's Hospital...
June 21, 2011 - 11:26 am
Researchers from the OCRC recently published a study on the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma imparted by exposure to multiple pesticides. The article, "Exposure to multiple pesticides and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men from six Canadian provinces," is found here.
June 13, 2011 - 10:15 am
The Twelfth Edition of the Report on Carcinogens (2011), published by the National Toxicology Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a science-based public health document that identifies and discusses agents, substances, mixtures, or exposure circumstances that may pose a hazard...
May 6, 2011 - 1:00 pm
People from all over the world encounter carcinogens in their workplace or environment, and sometimes this exposure will cause cancer. To help teach primary health care providers how to recognize and respond to these cancers, an e-course was developed by the National Committee on Environment and Occupational...
March 31, 2011 - 10:41 am
Night-time shift work has been classified as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Understanding the distribution of shift workers across industries and the types of shifts that they work helps us to design research studies, predict health impacts...
March 23, 2011 - 10:01 am
The World Health Organization (WHO) hosted the “International Conference on Environmental and Occupational Determinants of Cancer: Interventions for Primary Prevention”, held in March 2011 in Asturias, Spain. Scientists at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) worked closely together...
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