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Contents:
Abdominal Injuries - Arm Injuries - Asbestosis - Asphyxia - Barotrauma - Berylliosis - Bites and Stings - Botulism - Brain Concussion - Burns - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Central Cord Syndrome - Chilblains - Craniocerebral Trauma - Cubital Tunnel Syndrome - Disorders of Environmental Origin - Electric Injuries - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Fractures, Bone - Frostbite - Heat Stress Disorders - Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial - Hematoma, Subdural - Motion Sickness - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Occupational Diseases - Poisoning - Shaken Baby Syndrome - Shoulder Injuries (not on MeSH) - Sick Building Syndrome - Silicosis - Space Motion Sickness - Spinal Cord Injuries - Splenic Rupture - Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - Substance-Related Disorders - Tendinopathy - Tennis Elbow - Tick Paralysis - Tympanic Membrane Perforation - Ulnar Nerve Compression Syndromes - Wernicke Encephalopathy - Whiplash Injuries - Wounds and Injuries - Wounds, Penetrating & Nonpenetrating (not on MeSH) -


  Disorders of Environmental Origin   
  Information on Environmental Problems - NYU, and about Environmental Diseases from A to Z - NIEHS/NIH (US)
  Medical Geology
  Quantifying Environmental Health Impacts - WHO (CH)
  Risk issues - Franklin Pierce Law C. (US)
  The US National (Vehicle) Crash Analysis Center
  Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare links [J Placke]
  The Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project at HL Stimson Center
  The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism

    Multiple Chemical Sensitivity   
   See another page

    Sick Building Syndrome   
   See another page


   Motion Sickness   
   Travel Sickness - BBC/Health (UK)
   About Dizziness and Motion Sickness - AAO-HNS (US)
   Mal de Debarquement [TC Hain]

    Space Motion Sickness   
    Medical Guidelines for Airline Travel , and Some Useful Tips - ASMA (US)
    About Space Medicine - JAXA (JP)
    About some Adverse Effects of Weightlessness - HowStuffWorks
    Living in a Space Station - The WhyFiles


   Occupational Diseases   
   Risk-Related Research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (US)
   Recognizing Occupational Diseases -- ... [Lax et al] - Am Family Phys, Sep 1998
   Occupational Safety & Health resources [links]
   The Injury library at Alexander Law Firm (US)
   Laboratory Safety material - Howard Hughes Med Inst & NAS (US)
   On Occupational exposure to hepatitis C - Health Protection Agency (UK)
   Biohazards in the Primate Research Laboratory - Primate Info Net (US)
   The Carcinogenic Potency Project - Berkeley (US)
   Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets - (US)
   Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - CDC (US)
   Chemical Safety Information - Oxford Univ. (UK)
   Chemical Laboratory Safety [in German] - Univ. of Berlin (DE)
   OSHA - Alphabetic Site Index - US Dept of Labor
   Diseases, Disorders & Injuries - CCOHS (CA)
   Haz-Map: Hazardous Chemicals and Occupational Diseases [JA Brown] - (US)
   A report on Benzene-Induced Myelodysplastic Syndrome [Chen et al.] - ABFP Journal, Jan/Feb 2001
   About Silo Filler's Disease [Rasmussen and Bascom] - eMedicine
   'Fiber glass: A Carcinogen That's Everywhere' [P Montague] - Environmental Research Foundation
   About Occupational Asthma - U of Edinburgh (UK)
   British Asbestos Newsletter
   About Chrysotile - (CA)
   Silicosis Prevention - MSHA (US)
   Mining Safety & Health Information - MHSA, and about Black Lung (Pneumoconiosis) [Richards van Zyl and Obenour] - eMedicine (US)
   Occupational Skin Diseases - National Skin Centre (SG)
   Lifting Patients Poses High Risk for Back Injuries , study shows - Ohio-State (US)
   On the Safe Operation of Forklifts - OSH for everyone (CA)
   About Shock & Vibration Technology - Fabreeka Int'l, Inc.
   Safety and Health for Workers in the Print Industry - HSE (UK)
   Deutsche Gesellschaft f|r Musikphysiologie und Musikermedizin - Mainz (DE)
   Musicians and Injuries - UN-L Engineering Electronics Shop (US)
   Musician's Health [chiropractics; T Jameson]
   Musicians and the Alexander Technique
   Medecins des Arts [in French and English]
   Upper Limb Disorders in Musicians [R Tubiana] - (FR)
   How To Identify And Treat Common Ballet Injuries [M Caselli] - Podiatry Today, Apr 2003
   How To Identify And Treat Common Ballet Injuries - Podiatry Today
   Int'l Association for Dance Medicine and Science
   ErgoLib for Safer Library Computing [Bloom & Flowers] - U of C/Riverside (US)
   Carpal Tunnel Syndrome links
   Repetitive Stress Injury - The Arthritis Society (CA)
   A Case Study (Repetitive Strain Injury) [tutorial] - UCSF/Occupational Medicine (US)
   Cumulative Trauma Disorders in Office Workers - New Jersey Dept Health Senior Serv (US)
   CTD News Online
   Typing Injury FAQ [Wright & Wallach] - (US)
   Basics in Radiation and Radioactivity - Univ of Michigan (US)
   The Radiation Information Network - U of Michigan (US)
   On Depleted Uranium - WHO, Apr 2001
   Uranium Radiation and Health Effects - WISE (NL)
   About Computed Tomography/CT scan and safety - FDA (US)
   Fluroscopy and Radiation Safety - FDA (US)
   Chernobyl: Assessment of Radiological and Health Impacts - AEN/NEA (FR)
   Handbook on the Medical Management of Radiological Casualties - AFRR, 2003
   The Hiroshima Archive [H Tsuchida], 1997
   Medical Aspects of Atomic Bomb Disaster in Nagasaki - (JP)
   Radiation Effects Research Foundation - (JP)
   Potassium Iodide in Radiation Emergencies - FDA/CDER
   Human Radiation Experiments Project - DOE (US)
   BELLE - Biological Effects of Low Level Exposure
   Hot Topics from Radwaste.Org
   Radon and Your Home [JR Brooks] - Maryland Geological Survey (US)
   Radon in Earth, Air and Water - USGS, 1995 (US)

     Asbestosis   
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     Berylliosis   
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     Silicosis   
    See another page


   Poisoning   
   POISONING ...

    Bites and Stings   
   See another page

      Tick Paralysis   
      About Tick Paralysis - American Lyme Disease Foundation
      Tick Paralysis: Washington 1995 - MMWR/CDC (US)
      On Tick Paralysis - US Army


    Food Poisoning   

     Botulism   
    See another page


   Substance-Related Disorders   
  See another page

      Fetal Alcohol Syndrome   
     See another page


     Wernicke Encephalopathy   
    See another page


    Substance Withdrawal Syndrome   
   See another page


   Wounds and Injuries   
   Injury-Related Web Sites from the US Nat'l Center for Injury Prevention and Control
   Everyday Wounds, a counseling guide (in Primary Care) - PlasticSurgery.org
   Abbreviated Injury Scoring Scale - Trauma.org
   Trauma section at WorldOrtho (AU)
   A collection of Trauma Practice Guidelines - Memorial Health Univ. Med. C., Savannah (US)
   Trauma images , and some Case Presentations - Trauma.Org
   Handbook of Trauma Care, 6th ed. - Liverpool Hospital (AU)
   (Orthopaedic) Trauma and Fracture Care Lectures - OTA (US)
   Injury Control Resource Information Network [links; H Weiss]
   Facial Trauma, Maxillary and Le Fort Fractures [Moe and Kim] - eMedicine
   About the Radial Nerve and 'Saturday Night Palsy' [B McNamara]
   Dr. Pribut's Running Injuries Page - ClarkNet, Washington (US)
   About knee problems - via Knee Guru (UK)
   School Health Guidelines to Prevent Unintentional Injuries and Violence - U.S. Dept Health Human Serv.
   Snowboarding Injuries [Young and Niedfeldt] - Am Family Phys, Jan 1999
   Thumb Injury links
   Acute Finger Injuries: Part I. Tendons and Ligaments , and Part II. Fractures, Dislocations and Thumb Injuries [Leggit and Meko] - AAFP, Mar 2006
   Injuries from Fireworks - CDC
   Don't let a Fall be your last Trip - AAOS (US)
   About Falls in Hospitals - Joanna Briggs Institute (AU)
   On Conditions Producing Falls in Home and Community - NSC (US)
   'Stops walking when talking' - Bandolier (UK)
   About Brachial Plexus Injuries - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
   Wounds, Penetrating and Non-Penetrating [links]
   Injury Prevention and Research Center - Harborview (US)
   Injury Prevention Web - San Diego State Univ (US)
   Int'l Collaborative Effort On Injury Statistics - CDC (US)

    Abdominal Injuries   
    Abdominal trauma - Wikipedia
    Abdominal Trauma, Blunt [JA and JP Salomone]- eMedicine
    Penetrating abdominal injuries: management controversies [Butt et al.]- Scand J Trauma, Resuscit and Emerg Med, Apr 2009
    About Abdominal Vascular Injuries [Pohlman and Bjerke] - eMedicine

     Splenic Rupture   
    See another page


    Arm Injuries   
    About Tennis Elbow - Mayo Clinic (US)
    On Common Elbow Injuries - Body Results
    See also under Musculoskeletal Diseases

   Shoulder Injuries (not on MeSH)
    Acute Shoulder (Clavicle) Injuries [Quillen et al.] - AAFP, Nov 2004
    See also under Musculoskeletal Diseases

     Tennis Elbow   
    See another page


    Asphyxia   
   See another page

    Barotrauma   
    The Hyperbaric Medical Centre - (UK)
    Diving Medicine Online
    BaroMedical Research Centre, Inc. - (CA)
    On Decompression Illness , and Emergency Management [ES Campbell] - (US)
    Respiratory aspects of fitness for diving [guidelines 2003] - British Thoracic Society
    DAN's Diving Medical Information Center
    Doc's Diving Medicine [E. Kay] - Washington (US)
    Aquatics Safety and Water Rescue Issues - LifeSaving.Com

    Bites and Stings   
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    Burns   
    Management Guidelines for People with Burn Injury - NSW Health, 2004 (AU)
    Burn Support Groups Database - IDS (US)
    Burn Survivors Online
    About Skin Grafts - Regions Hospital, MN (US)
    On Burns of the Hand - Wheeless Online
    An overview of Hydrofluoric Acid Burns [RT Pyo] - (US)
    About Inhalation Injury [Serebrisky and Nazarian] - eMedicine (US)
    About Sunburn [Caron and McStay] - eMedicine (US)

    Craniocerebral Trauma   
    Head Injuries in Children - KidsHealth
    Evidence-Based Care of the Child with Traumatic Head Injury [T Trimarchi], Aug 2000
    About Head Injuries - Liverpool Hospital (AU)
    Head Injury [eds. Reilly and Bullock, 1997] - US Nat'l Neurotrauma Society
    On Head Injuries - Franklin Institute (US)
    Some notes on Head Injury - Forensic Med./Univ of Dundee (UK)
    Guidelines from the Brain Trauma Foundation [free? registration required]
    A collection of Reports related to Traumatic Brain Injuries - NeuroSkills (US)
    Brain Injury Resource Center - (US)
    On the Management of children with head trauma - Canadian Paediatric Society
    Brain Injury Association , Inc.
    Factors and Interventions that Influence Recovery after Brain Injury - UCLA/Neurosurgery
    Brain Injury Association, Inc. - (US)
    Guidelines for Management of Severe Head Injury [registration required] - Aitken Neursoscience Center (US)
    The International Brain Injury Association
    Brain Injury Info - Centre for Neuro Skills
    Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents - AHRQ/HSTAT, 1999 - NLM (US)
    RehabTeamSite (about Traumatic Brain & Spinal Cord Injury) - PoinTIS/Miami School of Medicine (US)
    The Traumatic Brain & Spinal Cord Injury Projects ' Home Page - San Jose, CA (US)
    On prevention of Accidental Injury - NSC
    Airbags: A Hazard in Your Dashboard? - The Why Files (US)
    Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute

      Brain Concussion   
      Head Injury and Concussion , a guide for patients and carers - British Brain & Spine Foundation (UK)
      S100B and brain natriuretic peptide predict functional neurological outcome after intracerebral haemorrhage [James et al.] - Biomarkers, Sep 2009
      Head Injuries: What to Watch For Afterwards - American Acad of Family Physicians
      Concussion and Head Injury [Santalucia and Feldmann]
      About Head Injury - Univ of Missouri Health Care
      Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children - Gillette Children's Spec Healthcare

      Shaken Baby Syndrome   
      The Shaken Baby Alliance - (US)
      The US Nat'l Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
      On Shaken Baby/Shaken Impact Syndrome - KidsHealth
      Evaluation of Physical Abuse in Children [DM Pressel] - AAFP, May 2000 (US)
      Non Accidental Injury (of a Child) - xray2000.co.uk
      Shaken Baby Syndrome Defense .com
      Top ten things to do when your baby won't stop crying - Maryland State Dept Health and Mental Hygiene
      See also under Aggression (Child Abuse) [links]


     Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic   

      Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial   
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      Hematoma, Subdural   
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    Electric Injuries   
    Electric Injuries [RK Wright] - eMedicine
    How Big a Problem is Lightning? - US National Weather Service
    Manifestations of Lightning Deaths and Injuries [R Kithi] from the National Ligthning Safety Institute - (US)
    Lightning Injuries [MA Cooper] - eMedicine

    Fractures, Bone   
    On Fracture of the Ankle [Iskyan and Aronson] - eMedicine
    Diagnosis and Management of Scaphoid Fractures [Philips et al.] - AAFP, Sep 2004
    See also under Musculoskeletal Diseases

    Frostbite   
    On Cold Induced Injuries [.pdf file] - W Reed Army Med C (US)
    Medical Aspects of Cold Weather Operations - US Army
    Pictorial Atlas of Freezing Cold Injuries [WJ Mills Jr] - Borden Institute (US)
    Cold Injury Prevention, and Prevention and Management of Cold Injuries - USACHPPM
    Frostbite [Bjerke and Tevar] - eMedicine
    About Non-Freezing Cold Injury. Immersion Foot [T Schimelpfenig] - NOLS (US)
    Guidelines for treating Hypothermia [Emergency Cardiac Care Committee, 1992] - via Hypothermia.org
    A Wind Chill Calculator (Farenheit & Miles per Hour)

     Chilblains   
     About Chilblains (Pernio) - ePodiatry.com
     Chilblains (Pernio) - Patient UK
     Some images of Chilblains ( Pernio) - DermAtlas, Johns Hopkins (US)
     Pernio in Pediatrics [Simon et al.], Pediatrics, 116, Sep 2005 - via PubMed
     Pernio [Maroon and Henley] - eMedicine


    Heat Stress Disorders   
    About Humidity and Temperature - USA Today
    U.S. Heat Stress Index Data , and an 8-14 Day Heat Index Outlook (for the US)
    On Heatstroke, Heat Exhaustion, and Heat Cramps - Mayo Clinic
    Heat Related Illnesses - USARIEM, 2006
    The dangers of Extreme Heat exposure - CDC (US)
    About Heatstroke [Helman and Habal] and Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke [Helman and Habel] - eMedicine
    About Dehydration and Heat Stroke - Univ of Maryland (US)
    Why is Dehydration so Dangerous?
    Dehydration and Heat Injury - SportsMed Web
    Dehydration and Diving - Diving Medicine Online

    Neck Injuries   

     Whiplash Injuries   
     Whiplash information from NINDS/NIH (US)
     On Whiplash [D Rees] - NetDoctor (UK)
     Whiplash: Neck Trauma and Treatment - SpineUniverse
     Whiplash injury - Neurofisiologia Otooftalmologica

    Wounds, Penetrating & Nonpenetrating (not on MeSH)
     ABC of Wound Healing: Wound assessment - studentBMJ, Mar 2006
     An Interactive Wound Assessment Guide - Wounds1.com (US)
     Wundversorgung [in German] - Univ. Bern (CH)
     Wound Care Information Network [A Freedline]
     An Introduction to the use of Vacuum Assisted Closure/Negative Pressure Wound Therapy [S Thomas] - WorldWideWounds
     Wound Healing using Proxiderm - Progressive Surgical Products, N.Y. (US)
     On Chronic wound management - WundForum / Hartmann Online (DE)
     Guidance on Debriding Agents for Diffult to Heal Surgical Wounds - NICE (UK)
     World Wide Wounds [e-journal] - SMTL (UK)
     About Maggot Therapy for Wound Healing - Wellcome Trust (UK)
     Maggots in Wound Debridement: an Introduction - Surgical Materials Testing Lab (UK)
     Skin Ulcers [links]
     Chronic Wound Healing [RA Frantz] - Univ of Iowa/Nursing (US)
     Wound Healing, Chronic Wounds [de la Torre and Chambers] - eMedicine
     About Firearms and Firearms Injuries [EC Klatt]
     About Rokitansky Incision in Retroperitoneal Trauma - MEdIC/Univ of Texas (US)
     On Infections after body piercing ['Chris']
     About Fishhook Removal - AAFP (US)
     Forensic Pathology [images; EC Klatt]
     Int'l Committee of the Red Cross


    Rupture   

     Splenic Rupture   
    See another page


    Spinal Cord Injuries   
    Spinal Cord Anatomy - Apparelyzed
    Spinal Cord Injury - Neurosurgerytoday.org, and an image - The Why Files
    Determined2Heal: Spinal Cord Injury Information [J Basile] - Potomac, Md (US)
    The Spinal Cord Injury Network International
    The Spinal Injuries Association - London (UK)
    Spine Conditions - Spine-Health.com
    Clinical manifestations of Acute Spinal Cord Injury [eds. Tator and Benzel] - AANS, and about Trampolin injuries [S Spinasanta] - SpineUniverse
    The SCI Update newsletter from Univ of Washington/NW Regional SCI System
    Spinal Cord Injury Resource Center
    The US Nat'l Spinal Cord Injury Association
    RehabTeamSite (about Traumatic Brain & Spinal Cord Injury) - PoinTIS/Miami School of Medicine (US)
    History of Spinal Surgery [Ed.: DE McDonnell] - Neurosurg Focus, 16(1), 2004, via AANS (US)
    New Mobility's Interactive Cafe
    See also under Spinal Diseases [links]

     Central Cord Syndrome   
     Central Cord Syndrome - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
     About Central Cord Syndrome [from 'Clinical manifestations of Acute Spinal Cord Injury'] - AANS
     Central Cord Syndrome [MJ Alpert] - eMedicine


    Sprains and Strains   

     Cumulative Trauma Disorders   

      Carpal Tunnel Syndrome   
     See another page

      Ulnar Nerve Compression Syndromes   
     See another page

       Cubital Tunnel Syndrome   
      See another page


    Tendon Injuries   

     Tendinopathy   
    See another page


    Trauma, Nervous System   

     Craniocerebral Trauma   
    See another location

       Brain Concussion   
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       Shaken Baby Syndrome   
      See another location


      Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic   

       Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial   
      See another page

       Hematoma, Subdural   
      See another page


    Tympanic Membrane Perforation   
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    Wounds, Nonpenetrating   

     Brain Concussion   
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     Head Injuries, Closed   

      Brain Concussion   
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