Context. Mining operations conducted at high altitudes provide health challenges for
workers as well as for medical personnel. Objective. To review the literature regarding …

The purpose of this review is to examine the evidence for a relationship between mercury
(Hg) exposure from dental amalgams and certain idiopathic chronic illnesses–chronic …

Substantial evidence indicates that predisposition to diseases can be acquired during early
stages of development and interactions between environmental and genetic factors may be …

To investigate the long-term effects of developmental exposure to methylmercury (MeHg),
pregnant mice were exposed to at 0.5 mg MeHg/kg/day via drinking water from gestational …

Background Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is a poverty-driven activity practiced
in over 70 countries worldwide. Zimbabwe is amongst the top ten countries using large …

Background Damage to the locus ceruleus, with a subsequent decrease of CNS
noradrenaline, occurs in a wide range of neurodegenerative, demyelinating and psychiatric …

This review examines health issues around human/social determinants of health within
artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM). The focus is on working children and violence …

This paper assessed approximately 30 studies, mostly involving occupationally exposed
subjects, concerning the extent to which those who developed elemental mercury (Hg) …

Environmental stressors can negatively affect avian cognitive abilities, potentially reducing
fitness, for example by altering response to predators, display to mates, or memory of …

Exposure to soil and dust derived mercury (Hg), associated with a historical legacy of Hg
mining in the city of Idrija in Slovenia, is evaluated using results from an earlier geochemical …