Work-related neck and upper limb disorders - quantitative exposure-response relationships adjusted for personal characteristics and psychosocial conditions.

Background: We have previously reported quantitative exposure-response relationships between physical exposures recorded by technical methods, and complaints and diagnoses in the neck/shoulders, and the elbows/hands, based on group data. In the present study the number of workers was doubled, and information on individual factors, and psychosocial working conditions was used. Relationships between various kinds of exposure and response have been analysed in this larger and more detailed sample.

Informing climate models with rapid chamber measurements of forest carbon uptake.

Models predicting ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO ) exchange under future climate change rely on relatively few real-world tests of their assumptions and outputs. Here, we demonstrate a rapid and cost-effective method to estimate CO exchange from intact vegetation patches under varying atmospheric CO concentrations We find that net ecosystem CO uptake (NEE) in a boreal forest rose linearly by 4.7 ± 0.

Exposure-response relationships for work-related neck and shoulder musculoskeletal disorders--Analyses of pooled uniform data sets.

There is a lack of quantitative data regarding exposure-response relationships between occupational risk factors and musculoskeletal disorders in the neck and shoulders. We explored such relationships in pooled data from a series of our cross-sectional studies. We recorded the prevalence of complaints/discomfort (Nordic Questionnaire) and diagnoses (physical examination) in 33 groups (24 female and 9 male) within which the workers had similar work tasks (3141 workers, of which 817 were males).

The importance of work organization on workload and musculoskeletal health--Grocery store work as a model.

We have evaluated the consequences of work organization on musculoskeletal health. Using a postal questionnaire, answered by 1600 female grocery store workers, their main work tasks were identified and four work groups were defined (cashier, picking, and delicatessen work, and a mixed group, who performed a mix of these tasks). The crude odds ratios (ORs) for neck/shoulder complaints were 1.

WITHDRAWN: Lidocaine-prilocaine cream for analgesia during circumcision in newborn boys.

The authors have requested this review to be withdrawn. The reason is the intervention, lidocaine‐prilocaine cream for analgesia during neonatal circumcision, is covered in the Cochrane Review of "Pain relief for neonatal circumcision" (Brady‐Fryer 2004). The editorial group responsible for this previously published document have withdrawn it from publication.