Highlights of the 13th World Congress on Occupational Safety and Health.

Workers often fail to get proper medical treatment because they are mostly ignorant of occupational diseases.

Ninety-four male pump workers, employed in 41 petrol filling stations in Kanpur (formerly Cawnpore) and Lucknow—both in the Ganges plain of north India—were clinically examined.

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Three labourers died and another fell sick after inhaling poisonous gas after they entered into a septic tank of an under-construction building in Nagolkot Upazila town yesterday morning.

"Why shouldn't salt-making be classed as agriculture?' asks R Potharaju. "Both require land, water and sunshine, and are subject to vagaries of nature,' he reasons. Potharaju is convenor of the

Women are more at risk of contracting avian flu than men, states the Egyptian health ministry. The statement came after an appraisal of the gender ratio of avian flu infected people in the country.

another attempt to bring chrysotile, the most common form of asbestos, under the prior informed consent list (pic) of the Rotterdam Convention has failed. Parties to this international treaty

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