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Work-related asthma in health care in Ontario.

Liss GM, Buyantseva L, Luce CE, Ribeiro M, Manno M, Tarlo SM. Am J Ind Med. 2011 Apr;54(4):278-84. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20935. Epub 2011 Feb 15. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The health of workers in health care has been neglected in the past. There are few reports regarding occupational asthma (


Prevention of occupational asthma.

Tarlo SM, Liss GM. Current Allergy and Asthma Reports 2010; 10:278-286. ABSTRACT: Prevention of occupational asthma related to a work-sensitizing agent ideally would be achieved by avoidance of exposures that cause immunologic sensitization and subsequent asthma. There are a few examples in whic


Surveillance of systemic reactions to subcutaneous immunotherapy injections: year 1 outcomes of the ACAAI and AAAAI collaborative study.

Bernstein DI, Epstein T, Murphy-Berendts K, Liss GM. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2010 Jun;104(6):530-5. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Although systemic reactions (SRs) to subcutaneous immunotherapy (SCIT) injections are not uncommon, life-threatening and fatal reactions are rare. The annual incide


2-aminoimidazole amino acids as inhibitors of the binuclear manganese metalloenzyme human arginase I.

Ilies M, Di Costanzo L, North ML, Scott JA, Christianson DW. J Med Chem. 2010 May 27;53(10):4266-76. ABSTRACT: Arginase, a key metalloenzyme of the urea cycle that converts L-arginine into L-ornithine and urea, is presently considered a pharmaceutical target for the management of diseases associ


Noise-induced hearing loss in construction workers being assessed for hand-arm vibration syndrome.

House RA, Sauvé JT, Jiang D. Can J Public Health. 2010 May-Jun;101(3):226-9. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Construction workers are at risk of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) but often have no periodic audiometric testing. METHODS: The participants were construction workers assessed for Hand-Ar


Exposure assessment in cohort studies of childhood asthma.

Arrandale VH, Brauer M, Brook JR, Brunekreef B, Gold DR, London SJ, Miller JD, Özkaynak H, Ries NM, Sears MR, Silverman FS,Takaro TK. Environ Health Perspect. 2011 May;119(5):591-7. Epub 2010 Nov 16. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The environment is suspected to play an important role in the deve


Acute allergic contact dermatitis of the lips from peppermint oil in a lip balm.

Tran A, Pratt M, DeKoven J. Dermatitis. 2010 Apr;21(2):111-5. ABSTRACT: The etiology of cheilitis is often not readily apparent. We present a case series of four patients with allergic contact cheilitis (ACC) secondary to exposure to peppermint oil contained in a lip balm product. These patie


Development of transient peanut allergy following lung transplantation: a case report.

Bhinder S, Heffer MJ, Lee JK, Chaparro C, Tarlo SM. Can Respir J. 2011 May-Jun;18(3):154-6. ABSTRACT: A 47-year-old woman underwent bilateral lung transplantation for nonspecific interstitial pneumonitis and received donor lungs from a 12-year-old patient with a known peanut allergy. Post-t


Concentrated ambient fine particles and not ozone induce a systemic interleukin-6 response in humans.

Urch B, Speck M, Corey P, Wasserstein D, Manno M, Lukic KZ, Brook JR, Liu L, Coull B, Schwartz J, Gold DR, Silverman F. Inhal Toxicol. 2010 Feb;22(3):210-8. ABSTRACT: Epidemiological studies have established significant associations between ambient pollutants, including fine particula


Symptoms after mould exposure including Stachybotrys chartarum, and comparison with darkroom disease.

Al-Ahmad M, Manno M, Ng V, Ribeiro M, Liss GM, Tarlo SM. Allergy. 2010 Feb;65(2):245-55. Epub 2009 Oct 1. ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Mould-attributed symptoms have included features which overlap with unexplained syndromes such as sick building syndrome. OBJECTIVES: We describe questionnaire and