Occupational risk in health care and research.

Background: Working in the health care and research sectors has been linked to various hazards.

Methods: Studies published in the peer-reviewed literature that are pertinent to the exposures or diseases relevant to these fields were reviewed.

Results: The most important exposures include infectious agents, formaldehyde, anesthetic agents, antineoplastic drugs, and ethylene oxide.

A case-control study of lung cancer in Casablanca, Morocco.

Objective: To evaluate etiologic risk factors for lung cancer in Casablanca, Morocco.

Methods: We conducted a hospital-based case-control study that included 118 incident lung cancer cases and 235 age-, sex- and residence-matched controls. We analyzed the data using matched univariate and matched and unmatched multivariate logistic regression analyses.