There are different kinds of asthma, like nocturnal asthma, allergic asthma, and occupational asthma. Here's what causes and ...

Occupational asthma is asthma that's caused or worsened by breathing in chemical fumes, gases, dust, or other substances on the job. Like other types of asthma, occupational asthma can cause chest ...

Occupational asthma is defined as asthma caused by workplace exposures to biological agents. An estimated 11 million workers in a wide range of industries and occupations are potentially exposed to at ...

Many intrinsic and extrinsic factors hinder primary health care professionals from identifying a patient as having occupational asthma. Occupational asthma (OA) is often overlooked as a diagnosis in ...

Background: Hairdressers are at risk for occupational respiratory diseases, but the risk factors, causal agents, and underlying mechanisms are not completely defined. Aim: To describe the features of ...

An industrial disease law firm is revealing the 11 types of employees it claims are at higher risk for asthma due to frequent exposure to irritants -- including hairdressers and animal handlers.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Occupational clinicians should advise workers with asthma to reduce these exposures, Guillaume Sit, PharmD, PhD ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 71, No. 2 (February 2014), pp. 81-86 (6 pages) The quality of guidelines is often modest and highly variable. We searched the Medline database for ...

Occupational safety agencies in the UK are cracking down on occupational asthma by instituting programs and enforcement efforts they hope will lower the number of occupational asthma cases as much as ...

Almost two years following the death of a 27-year-old worker in a Massachusetts cannabis production facility, state and federal investigators said that work-related occupational asthma was the cause ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report confirming the first case of an occupational asthma death in U.S. cannabis history. Per the report filed by the Occupational Safety ...

A thorough occupational history is critical to identify patients with possible work-related asthma. There are three goals in collecting the occupational history: to generate a list of past and present ...