Silicosis not a disease of the past. It is an irreversible, fibrotic lung disease specifically
caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) dust. Over 20,000 incident cases of …

Rationale: Beryllium continues to have a wide range of industrial applications. Exposure to
beryllium can lead to sensitization (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD). Objectives: …

… The firefighter groups were significantly different from the nonfirefighter controls, but we
found no significant differences between the firefighter groups (Table 1). Differential counts for …

Background Most dialysis patients develop pruritus, for which current treatment is unsatisfactory.
Endogenous opioids may be involved in this pruritus. We studied the effect of the opioid …

… At high frequencies (S~~Z' times 13.6 eV) the characteristic E and L absorption edges take
their origin in only a sma11 number of electrons and are susceptible to simple theoretical …

… from Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, our integrated electronic health record (EHR). …
rely on EHR capabilities, such as electronic discharge summaries, computerized order entry and …

… Blanc MD, MSPH, FCCP d , Elizabeth Fireman PhD c , Anat Amital MD, FCCP a , Alexander
Guber … Dr Fireman: contributed to the data collection and manuscript review and approval. …

An increase in chronic beryllium disease (CBD) has been suggested due to higher industrial
use of beryllium alloys. Since occupational CBD is a perfect phenocopy of sarcoidosis, it …

Background There is a well-established association between inhalational exposure to silica
and autoimmune disease. We recently observed an outbreak of silica-related autoimmune …

Objective Probiotics reduce intestinal inflammation in, and Lactobacillus GG (LGG) reduces
pulmonary exacerbation rate cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. We intended to determine the …