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Original articles

• The effectiveness of ergonomic interventions on return-to-work after low back pain; a prospective two year cohort study in six countries on low back pain patients sicklisted for 3–4 months (18 March, 2004)

  J R Anema, B Cuelenaere, A J van der Beek, D L Knol, H C W de Vet, W van Mechelen
• Mortality patterns among residents in Louisiana’s industrial corridor, USA, 1970–99 (18 March, 2004)

  S P Tsai, K M Cardarelli, J K Wendt, A E Fraser
• A case-crossover study of transient risk factors for occupational acute hand injury (18 March, 2004)

  G S Sorock, D A Lombardi, R Hauser, E A Eisen, R F Herrick, M A Mittleman
• Biological monitoring of kidney function among workers occupationally exposed to trichloroethylene (18 March, 2004)

  T Green, J Dow, C N Ong, V Ng, H Y Ong, Z X Zhuang, X F Yang, L Bloemen
• Pre-employment urine drug testing of hospital employees: future questions and review of current literature (18 March, 2004)

  M R Levine, W P Rennie
• Temporal association between serum prolactin concentration and exposure to styrene (18 March, 2004)

  U Luderer, R Tornero-Velez, T Shay, S Rappaport, N Heyer, D Echeverria
• Paternal exposure to agricultural pesticides and cause specific fetal death (18 March, 2004)

  E Regidor, E Ronda, A M García, V Domínguez
• Cigarette smoking, occupational exposure to noise, and self reported hearing difficulties (18 March, 2004)

  K T Palmer, M J Griffin, H E Syddall, D Coggon
• Reducing absenteeism in hospital cleaning staff: pilot of a theory based intervention (18 March, 2004)

  S Michie, B Wren, S Williams
• Long term effects of exposure to automobile exhaust on the pulmonary function of female adults in Tokyo, Japan (18 March, 2004)

  K Sekine, M Shima, Y Nitta, M Adachi
• Mortality of workers exposed to ethylene oxide: extended follow up of a British cohort (18 March, 2004)

  D Coggon, E C Harris, J Poole, K T Palmer
• Mortality in a cohort of vermiculite miners exposed to fibrous amphibole in Libby, Montana (18 March, 2004)

  J C McDonald, J Harris, B Armstrong