For how we live.
In a draft TSCA evaluation open for comment until 3 November, EPA preliminarily found the industrial solvent poses unreasonable risk to health. IARC classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen.
A case-crossover study in Kern County found the odds of coccidioidomycosis were about 12.5% higher in the 90 days after a new well was developed within 5 km of home.
A Swiss study tracking people who switched to remote work found no measurable change across 13 health outcomes. A review of pandemic homeworking found the relationship varies so much that no consensus emerged.
Thirty-two thousand mid-Ohio Valley residents with high PFOA exposure were tracked through 2021. Of 22 causes of death examined, one trend was significant and the authors themselves urge caution.
WHO and ILO estimate about 17% of workers face hazardous noise. Their review of whether it causes heart disease found only low-certainty signals — one for heart-attack incidence, little for stroke or blood pressure.
Leisure exercise reliably protects the heart. Physical activity done for a living shows mixed or even adverse associations — and some meta-analyses find higher mortality in men with the most physically demanding jobs.
WHO's ICD-11 lists burn-out, yet places it among reasons people contact health services, not among illnesses. It is defined strictly as a workplace phenomenon, which shapes who should be assessing it and how.
OSHA and NIOSH use different rules for how fast allowable exposure falls as sound gets louder. WHO's venue standard permits an average of 100 decibels. The headline 'one billion at risk' figure is a modelled range.
A Cochrane review found sit-stand desks reliably reduce workplace sitting, but graded the evidence low quality and could not tie it to better health. WHO backs cutting sedentary time but set no number.
The IARC calls night shift work probably carcinogenic. A 2026 meta-analysis of nurses shows why 'probably' is careful: the breast cancer signal appears only after decades, and shrinks to nothing once bias is corrected.
A 1,224-person biomonitoring study found four compounds only in firefighter serum. A separate 65-person pilot in Texas asked whether that matters for cognition, and got a partial answer.
Two national survey analyses find schedule unpredictability — not shift work itself — associated with insomnia symptoms, with a dose-response by how much advance notice a worker gets.
A year of wearable data from 76 subsistence farmers shows adaptation happening in real time. The women in the study had less room to slow down, and their strain readings show it.
A 43-year analysis at hourly resolution finds a 3.3% rise in average heat stress exposure duration across districts, with the change varying by time of day, season and region.