This paper reviews how the health of humans is affected by the world's soils, an association
that to date has been under appreciated and under reported. Soils significantly influence a …

Soil can affect human health in several ways leading either to specific diseases or to more
general ill health. Some illnesses are caused by people's eating soil (geophagia), or by their …

Nanotechnology is an emerging science involving manipulation of materials at the
nanometer scale. There are several exciting prospects for the application of engineered …

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the importance of low dose exposure to asbestos on the risk of
mesothelioma. METHODS: A review of the literature. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS …

The diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma can pose several problems to the surgical
pathologist. First, the morphological appearances of the tumour are known to be diverse with …

Study objectives This study examines the incidence of malignant pleural mesothelioma
(MPM) in a rural population of Turkey with environmental exposure to asbestos …

Assessing the need for and effectiveness of controlling airborne exposures to engineered
nanomaterials in the workplace is difficult in the absence of occupational exposure limits …

Background: Mesothelioma is a notoriously chemotherapy-resistant neoplasm, as is evident
in the dismal overall survival for patients with those of asbestos-associated disease. We …

Asbestos-related benign and malignant pleural diseases are endemic in some rural parts of
central Turkey because of environmental exposure to asbestos fibres. We report here …

The objective of this study was to examine the epidemiological data that confirm the risks of
pleural mesothelioma, lung cancer, and other respiratory damage associated with …