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A comparison of population air pollution exposure estimation techniques with personal exposure estimates in a pregnant cohort
Maybe not as exciting as “real blog posts” (which, btw I hope to have the next one finished soon) but i thought it would be informative to post abstracts of new papers I am involved in, and link to where to full papers can be found, on here as well. So here you go…the first […]
Assessment of Long-term Occupational Pesticide Exposure (balloons again!)
April 10, 2013
Those of you with whom I work more closely, or who I have met at a conference or meeting in the previous year, may have overheard me grumbling about spending most of my time reading various degrees of draft chapters for PhD students‘ theses…. However, the good news is that even though my recent posts […]
UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting
March 18, 2013
Last week, March 14h, we (Karen Galea and Martie van Tongeren from IOM and I) organised the first UK & Ireland Exposure Science meeting. Set up similar to, and not coincidentally the day after, the 7th UK & Ireland Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology 1-day meeting, we had the plan to start organizing these meetings to […]
The irony of the mobile phone
November 30, 2012
Ok, let me first point out that I wasn’t the one spotting the irony here. I could have, probably, and maybe I would have, had I been paying attention. Nonetheless, someone else had his eyes and ears a lot closer to the fire…so for better or worse (and until ordered to remove the name) credit […]
Good idea, bad hypothesis: misclassification in cellphone use
August 3, 2012
A comparatively large number of posts on my blog deal with studies on adverse health effects of cell phone use. That’s not a coincidence; there is just a lot to talk about. Take for example a new study in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology that has been online since July 18 (it’s […]
X2012, snapshots days 3 and 4
July 5, 2012
1] Erik Tielemans’ keynote “Advancements in occupational exposure modelling” 2] Mark Stenzel talking about exposure assessment in the GuLF Study 3] The Great Hall at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
X2012, snapshots of days 1 and 2
July 4, 2012
No text today, but several photos. Dr Melissa Friesen’s keynote 1 Inside the black board: advances in exposure assessment for population-based studies Professor Richard Wakeford’s keynote Reconstructing the Radiation Doses Received from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station Accident Dr Melissa Friesen’s keynote 2
X2012 conference on the science of exposure assessment
June 29, 2012
Only 3 days until the X2012 conference starts. Martie van Tongeren, myself, the BOHS and many others have worked hard to organize an exciting programme, and with almost 350 delegates it seems we have succeeded. instead of my normal posts, I plan to post more regular but much shorter posts over the next week covering […]
Surviving Oxford Road
June 15, 2012
Here’s a confession…I cycle. That’s just what I do. It’s probably genetic, given that I am Dutch, so I cannot help it. I also cycle in Manchester; very stereotypical according to my friends, and also not one of my brightest ideas apparently. To date I have only been run over once, avoided a handful of […]
Mobile phone risks purely git-based
April 27, 2012
Since a number of my posts have to do with carcinogenic risk of mobile phones (or absence thereof) and the studies investigating this, I thought I would not withhold the following newspaper article from you. It is a direct copy-paste from the brilliant Daily Mash (link), but to be honest they do seem to report […]
Mobile phones, carcinogenic risk, and the HPA
April 26, 2012
The UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) just published their new report entitled “Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields”. In summary, their advisory committee, not including any unexpected names, does not believe of increased cancer risk of using cell phones. The full report can be downloaded for free here. This of course got wide coverage in […]
The danger of exposure to too much stuff
March 2, 2012
So how do we know which exposures are harmful for humans? Obviously, if we, generally by accident, get exposed to extremely high concentrations of some toxic substance and die immediately, or within a very short period after, it is fairly easy to deduce a causal relation. But how about much lower doses, or when the […]
Dr Nathan Green’s new series of columns in the Guardian
December 2, 2011
While reading the Guardian online I accidentally stumbled upon a new series of columns written by Dr Nathan Green. He, upon closer inspection, turns out to be a colleague of mine here at Manchester. I am convinced you’ll find this as interesting as me, especially if you don’t work with statistics on a daily basis […]
X2012, the 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment
December 1, 2011
Because one cannot spam enough, some additional information about the X2012 conference this summer in Edinburgh (and which i am c0-organizing): BOHS is hosting X2012, the 7th International Conference on the Science of Exposure Assessment. This four day international conference will bring together the leading experts who have been instrumental in the development of the […]
Trying to have it both ways.
October 25, 2011
Last week, once again, a paper on the carcinogenic risk of mobile phones was published; in the British Medical Journal this time (link to open access paper here). It was widely cited in international media (just to give you a taste of quality: Fox News, Daily Mail & of course the Daily Express) as “the […]
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Or maybe both are just both over the moon…
September 21, 2011
In one of the previous posts I discussed the use of expert-assessment in an attempt to characterize exposure without the need for expensive (both in terms of money but also man (or women)-hours). That seemed to work, but not always and not as good experts would like us to believe. So where does that leave […]
Cardiovascular effects and air pollution….or is it just noise??
June 13, 2011
Very often, when there is noise there is air pollution and vice versa, air pollution from traffic (and for example building sites) goes hand in hand with noise. An interesting Commentary in the January (yes, I am slightly behind with reading) 2011 issue of the journal Environmental Research (here) discusses the correlation between the two […]
Cell phones and parotid cancer trends in England.
June 9, 2011
A couple of months ago a group from Israel published some interesting data on the increase in rates of cancers of the parotid gland between 1970 and 2006 and linked this to the increased use of cell phones (the paper can be found here). Very interesting, and it seemed to fit in with other data […]
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