- Visits to parks, community gardens and other urban green spaces may lower city dwellers’ use of drugs for anxiety, insomnia, depression. Positive effects were stronger among those reporting the lowest annual household income https://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2023/01/05/oemed-2022-108491 11 comments science
- Long term exposure to air pollution may heighten COVID-19 risk . Long-term exposure to low levels of air pollutants, especially PM2.5, increased the incidence of COVID-19. The causality warrants confirmation in future studies. https://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2022/01/06/oemed-2021-107833 4 comments science
- A new study found a considerable asymptomatic COVID-19 infection rate (20%) among US grocery workers. Employees with direct customer exposure were 5 times more likely to test positive. Those able to practice social distancing had significantly lower risk of anxiety or depression. https://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2020/10/11/oemed-2020-106774 101 comments science
- Anti-union laws associated with significantly more workplace deaths in US states, 1992-2016. https://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2018/06/13/oemed-2017-104747 1303 comments science
- Men working in human services occupations like social work, healthcare, childcare and teaching are up to twice as likely as those in any other occupation to use antidepressants, a major European study has found http://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2018/01/25/oemed-2017-104803 49 comments science
- Shift Work Causes Brain Damage. It Takes Five Years to Recover. http://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2014/10/08/oemed-2013-101993 3 comments sysadmin
- French case-control study supports possible association between heavy mobile phone use and certain types of brain tumours http://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2014/05/09/oemed-2013-101754.short?g=w_oem_ahead_tab 3 comments science
- Is there any evidence for chronic ingestion of small quantities of washing up liquid being harmful to humans? http://oem.bmj.com/content/41/2/279.full.pdf 7 comments askscience
- Can someone decode this paper for me? How can an occupation of being a mathematician correlate to higher birth defects in the baby? http://oem.bmj.com/content/69/8/534.abstract 7 comments askscience