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Environmental medicine is concerned primarily with prevention. Food-borne infections or infections that are water-borne (e.g. cholera and gastroenteritis caused by norovirus or campylobacteria) are typical concerns of environmental medicine, but some opinions in the fields of microbiology hold that the viruses, bacteria and fungi that they study are not within the scope of environmental ...
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), founded in 1965 as the Society for Clinical Ecology, is an international association of physicians and associated professionals interested in the clinical aspects of ecological or environmental illnesses, which is called clinical ecology. The academy aims for recognition of ecologic illness ...
The American Occupational Medical Association was created in 1916. The American Academy of Occupational Medicine was created in 1946. In 1988, both organizations were merged to form the present day American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. [1]
The term environmental medicine may be seen as a medical specialty, or branch of the broader field of environmental health. [9] [10] Terminology is not fully established, and in many European countries they are used interchangeably.
Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and non-human animal health and environmental conditions. Specifically, conservation medicine is the study of how the health of humans, animals, and the environment are interconnected and affected by conservation issues. [ 1 ]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal which covers research in occupational and environmental medicine.It is published by the BMJ Group and is the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
The 1994 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine, Dr. Martin Rodbell, served as Scientific Director of the NIEHS from 1985 to 1989. [5] Later on in 1994, NIEHS scientists assisted in identifying the first breast cancer gene, BRCA1, and, in 1995, identified a gene that suppresses prostate cancer. [4]
Wilderness & Environmental Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering wilderness medicine. [1] It is the official journal of the Wilderness Medical Society [2] and published its Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines. [3] [4] The journal is published by Sage Publishing and the editor-in-chief is William D ...