What is Occupational Medicine?
Over the past decade more and more information has become available to provide some insight to the integral relationship between the environment and health. Current trends in research in this field focus on the relation of low-dose exposures to human health, the influence of environmental toxins on both male and female reproductive functions, and the potential health implications of subclinical indications of biological damage (for example, genetic or chromosomal damage). In such research, increased emphasis is being placed on delayed or long-term health effects and on a wide range of potential synergistic interactions between environments and hosts.
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