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One of our youngest EOM members Dr. Dennis Wilken tragically passed away

20.02.2016

One of our youngest EOM members Dr. Dennis Wilken tragically passed away

Dennis was an extraordinary lung physician currently starting his new academic carrier and additional education in occupational medicine in Berlin. He was a very engaged empathic medical doctor and talented scientist focusing his research on occupational asthma and asbestos-related disorders. We will all miss him.

With heartfelt sympathy to his family and loved ones from EOM board and EOMsociety members.

Some publications from Dennis Wilken:
What are the benefits of medical screening and surveillance?
Baur X, Wilken D, Rooyackers J, Heederik D. Eur Respir Rev. 2013 Mar 1;22(127):96-7. doi: 10.1183/09059180.00004412.

The management of work-related asthma guidelines: a broader perspective.
Baur X, Aasen TB, Burge PS, Heederik D, Henneberger PK, Maestrelli P, Schlünssen V, Vandenplas O, Wilken D; ERS Task Force on the Management of Work-related Asthma. Eur Respir Rev. 2012 Jun 1;21(124):125-39. doi: 10.1183/09059180.00004711. Review.

What are the benefits of medical screening and surveillance?
Wilken D, Baur X, Barbinova L, Preisser A, Meijer E, Rooyackers J, Heederik D; ERS Task Force on the Management of Work-related Asthma. Eur Respir Rev. 2012 Jun 1;21(124):105-11. doi: 10.1183/09059180.00005011. Review.

Lung function in asbestos-exposed workers, a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Wilken D, Velasco Garrido M, Manuwald U, Baur X. J Occup Med Toxicol. 2011 Jul 26;6:21. doi: 10.1186/1745-6673-6-21

Full publication List at:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis_Wilken/publications

Making a cancer cluster disappear

10 Februar 2016

Making a cancer cluster disappear. Read below an article from Center for Public Integrity, winner of Pulizer Price in 2014. By David Heath, Center for Public Integrity

After a record number of brain tumors at a chemical plant, industry launched a flawed study that obscured the extent of the problem:

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/10/19265/making-cancer-cluster-disappear?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-94aec29d9f-100233081&mc_cid=94aec29d9f&mc_eid=b837362be0

2015 Report on Worlds Worst Pollution Problems published

2016 Blacksmith Institute

The 2015 World’s Worst Pollution Problems report is the tenth in an annual series published by Green Cross Switzerland and Pure Earth (formerly Blacksmith Institute).

The New top Six Toxic Threads: A Priority List of Remediation:

http://www.worstpolluted.org/

Asbestos industry celebrates sabotage of UN Convention

Mai 2015

At the close of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam  May 15, Russia and Kazakhstan – the world’s biggest asbestos exporters – refused to allow chrysotile asbestos to be put on the Convention’s list of hazardous substances These two asbestos exporters were joined by Zimbabwe (which wants to re-open its asbestos mines) and Russia’s ally, Kyrgyzstan. This group of four countries blocked the recommendation of the Convention’s scientific committee and the wishes of the overwhelming majority of countries attending to put chrysotile asbestos on the Convention’s list, which would have required prior informed consent to be obtained before chrysotile asbestos could be exported - See more at: 

http://www.rightoncanada.ca/?p=2976#sthash.7FlF9MUW.dpuf