Occupational medicine and toxicology

TLDR

Occupational medicine and toxicology encompass diagnosis, prevention, and management of occupational and environmental diseases, including pollution effects, carcinogenesis, biological monitoring, ergonomics, epidemiology, product safety, and health promotion. The editorial announces the launch of the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology. It is a new open‑access, peer‑reviewed online journal published by BioMed Central. The launch is expected to advance research in these areas by uniting multidisciplinary findings.

Abstract

Abstract This editorial is to announce the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology , a new Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal published by BioMed Central. Occupational medicine and toxicology belong to the most wide ranging disciplines of all medical specialties. The field is devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, management and scientific analysis of diseases from the fields of occupational and environmental medicine and toxicology. It also covers the promotion of occupational and environmental health. The complexity of modern industrial processes has dramatically changed over the past years and today's areas include effects of atmospheric pollution, carcinogenesis, biological monitoring, ergonomics, epidemiology, product safety and health promotion. We hope that the launch of the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology will aid in the advance of these important areas of research bringing together multi-disciplinary research findings.