Newsletter Archive (click on issue number to download)
 

• What Occupational and Environmental Medicine Providers Need to Know When Responding to a Disaster
• The Dizzy Patient in the Occupational Medicine Practice
• 2009 Moore Medical Scholar

• The Lead-Exposed Worker: New Challenges for the Occupational Physician
• What’s new in Hernia Repair?
• In Memoriam: NECOEM Member Lisa Woody

• OEMAC/NECOEM Merger
• H1N1
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)

• OEM Delegation to China
• Wellness in the Workplace
• Traditional Patients and Alternative Medicine

• Solutions for the Future of OEM
• The New ADA
• Worker Comp Rate Increase

Issue #24 (586kb)

• How to Reduce Cardiovascular Mortality in Fire Dept.
• Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters
• RI, NH, MA legislative updates
• Member Profile: Dr. Stratford

Issue #23 (321kb)

• NECOEM Podcasts introduced
• House of Delegates update
• Patterson Memorial Lecture declared
• NECOEM Educational Mission Statement
• Dr. Pransky awarded Kehoe
• Review: Medical Causality in Litigation Setting

Issue #22 (362kb)

• 2007 Annual Conference reviews
• Dive Medicine
• State news (MA, VT, RI)

Issue #21 (299kb)

• Physician Extenders
• Nurse Practioners in Occ Hlth
• Member Avocation Survey
• Irish Delegation observe PAs
• Knee Osteo Impairment Ratings

Issue #20 (319kb)

• Impartial Physician in Massachusetts
• Lawyer Perspective: Preemployment Exams
• World Medical Assoc. Physicians and the Environment
• Obese Workers Cost Employers
• OEM news: MA, RI, VT

Issue #19 (426kb)

• Quarantined in Flight
• Tdap as a Booster Vaccine
• Dr. Hu: Remarks on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Dr. Brigham: Impairment Rating Tips: Combining, Spinal and Sleep.

Issue #18 (916kb)

• Cape Wind, Wind Energy in MA from Candidates for Governor
• HIV and Occupational Medicine
• Lead and Children
• New NECOEM Reporter Editor
• Penalties for Worksite Negligence

Issue #17 (1058kb)

• Well Water
• Prevention and Control of Influenza
• Vermont OEM news
• Task force on  Workers’ Compensation for Immigrants

Issue #16 (518kb)

• MA Workers Compensation 2006
• Children’s Health Care in the Future
• Comments of Dr. LaDou about the Specialty
• Environmental Health in a Low Income Neighborhood

Issue #15 (238kb)

• Safe Patient Handling, nurse perspective
• Connecticut ACOEM component
• OH+R Merger
• Responding to Disasters

Issue #14 (229kb)

• Pediatric Environmental Toolkit
• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Protecting America’s Workers Act

Issue #13 (225kb)

• Children’s Environmental Health Issue

Issue #12 (330kb)

• Controlled Substances Act
• Zoonotic Disease
• Dr McCloy in Guatemala
• Injured Foot

Issue #11 (249kb)

• Restoring Scientific Integrity
• Conflict of Interest
• VT Reform
• MA CTS Guideline Revised

Issue #10 (196kb)

• Utilization Review in Massachusetts
• Harriet Hardy Award: Dr. Kern

Issue #9 (109kb)

• Illegal Immigrants and Illegal Employers
• Hospital Based OH
• Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics

Issue #8 (188kb)

• Maintaining Ethics in an Unethical Environment.
• MA Workers’ Compensation Impartial Physician Program. -Judge O’Shea

Issue #7 (177kb)

• Threshold limit values - should we trust them?
• Reform initiatives and utilization review in MA: mechanism for complaint.

Issue 6 (149kb)

• EEOC regulations: Supreme Court rejects limited definition of ‘Direct Threat.’
• Why ecological medicine?

Issue #5 (99kb)

• Reductions in diesel exhaust emissions: the 2007 rule.

Issue #4 (161kb)

• The IME: past and future trends.

Issue #3 (103kb)

• MassCOSH
• World Trade disaster

Issue #2 (239kb)

• Health care without harm.
• Tuberculosis is back - are you ready?

Issue #1 (120kb)

• Violence in the workplace.
• Limited ‘Direct Threat’ defense to disability discrimination.

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