Exposure assessment is an applied science that describes how an individual or population comes in contact with a risk factor, including quantification of the amount of the risk factor across space and ...

Background Retrospective exposure assessment in community-based studies is largely reliant on questionnaire information. Expert assessment is often used to assess lifetime occupational exposures, but ...

Mathematicians have developed statistical methods that lay the framework for the crucial first step of determining whether there are any linkages between exposures and health outcomes from the 2010 ...

The Exposure Scientist Podcast explores real-world chemical and biological exposures through the lens of toxicology, risk ...

Designing Coherent Assessment Programs Effective industrial hygiene programs integrate exposure assessment and analytical quality into coherent systems rather than treating them as separate activities ...

Techniques used in weather forecasting can be repurposed to provide individuals with a personalized assessment of their risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other viruses, according to new research ...

Purdue University assistant professor Aaron Specht demonstrates using a portable XRF analyzer to detect levels of lead exposure in bone. Specht has created new noninvasive methods to test dried blood ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers' historical internal radiation exposure. They focused their efforts on workers employed at the start of plutonium ...

From wildfires to floods, cleanup crews face serious respiratory and skin exposure risks. What lessons can be learned from the Lahaina and California fires and applied to PPE and respiratory ...