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EDITOR’S
COMMENT
REPORT FROM THE WORKSHOP OF THE WORKING GROUP IN UPPSALA 8-12 JUNE 1998
THE CENTRE FOR METAL BIOLOGY IN SWEDEN
PLANNED BOOK ON MEDICAL GEOLOGY
MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN NORWAY
NORDIC NETWORK FOR MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY
IN MEMORIAM OF VALENTINE KONSTANTINOVICH LUKASHEV
Message from
the Chairman
IGCP Project 454. Medical Geology
Geomedicine in East and Southern Africa
Environmental Studies Programme: Moi
University
Geomedicine Course Syllabus
Geology in Researching Links between
Environment and Health
List of Working Group Members
Workshop
in Uppsala
Message from
the chairman
Medical Geology an emerging discipline
The presence of calcium oxalate in street sediment from Niteroi (Brazil), and
its health implications
An imperial legacy? An exploration of the environmental impact of ancient metal
mining and smelting in Southern Jordan
Medical geology at the United States Geological Survey
Upcoming conferences
New book on Medical geology
Second East and Southern Africa Regional Workshop in Geomedicine, Zambia, June
2001
Message from
the Chairman
Editors
comments and Guidelines for authors
Introduction
to the Radon Hotline
Health
Effects and Indoor Radon Reduction
Soil
Nutrient Deficiencies in an Area of Endemic Osteoarthritis, South Africa
“Manganese
Madness” Clues to the Aetiology of Human Brain Disease Emerges from an Geological
Anomaly
Medical
Geology Applications of an East Africa Geochemical Database
3rd
International Conference of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa Euroregion “Environment
and Health”
Multiple
Metal Contamination from House Paint: Consequences of Power Sanding and Paint
Scraping in New Orleans
Books
of Interest
Message from the Chairman
The Emerging Discipline of Medical Geology
Report on the Medical Geology: Earth Systems Conference
Air Quality Downwind of Sour Gas Flaring
Environmental Pathology and Health Effects of Arsenic Poisoning
ITTRCA: International Tissue and Tumor Repository for Chronic Arsenias
Medical Geology Research in the Slovak Republic
Human Exposure to Lead from a Mining Area in Brazil
Arsenic Groundwater Pollution in Mexico
Environmental Mercury and Methylmercury contamination from the Palawan Quicksilver
Mine, Philippines
Toxic Mercury from the Industrialised World is Flooding Developing Countries
Challenges of Using Plants in Biogeochemical Studies
Short Course in Medical Geology
Contents of newsletter#7
Message from the chairman
Health effects of toxic organic compounds from coal: from Romania to Powder
River
Preliminary assessment of the impact of petroleum refinery, Kaduna, Northern
Nigeria on the environment and human health
Distribution of some respiratory diseases within the Minsk oblast
High fluoride in groundwater cripples life in part of India
Groundwater resources and quality in Lithuania
Drinking water: Safety issues in Lithuania
Book review: Green chemistry in Africa
IMGA
New website
Short courses
Book Medical Geology
Contents
of Newsletter # 8
Special newsletter: International Medical Geology Association
Message from the
chairman
Book: Medical Geology
The new IMGA
2004 Activities
Initiatives for the future
The website, logo competition
Short courses
Regions: Brazil, China, Cuba, Africa, Russia, India, Malaysia, USA
Biographies, contact information
COHAB 2000
Message from the
directors
UK Research Councils new Environment and Health Program
Letter to the editor: Geoscience philosophy
Dangerous gas in the Jubarkas district, Lithuania
International Year of Planet Earth
International symposium on medical geology, Stockholm, abstracts
Postgraduate training in medical geology, University of Western Australia
Geohealth and medical geology listserve
FROM THE DIRECTORS
MEDICAL GEOLOGY IN
THE IMGA RUSSIA-NIS
DIVISION
ISOTOPES 234, 238U AND
241Am IN THE ENVIRONMENT
DISTRIBUTION OF NATURAL
RADON IN THE
MOSCOW REGION
METHODOLOGY FOR THE
RADIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
OF UNDERGROUND
WATERS IN THE MOSCOW
REGION
RISK ASSESSMENT RELATED
TO MINERALS
THE CORRELATION OF
POTENTIAL FIELDS WITH
PSYCHIC DISORDERS AND
SOMATIC DISEASES IN
LITHUANIA
HEALTH OF CATTLE AND
WILDLIFE DOWNWIND
FROM GAS FACILITIES:
THE WESTERN CANADA
STUDY
BOOK: MEDICAL GEOLOGY
IN BRAZIL
FROM THE DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
INTERNATIOAL YEAR OF
PLANET EARTH
WHY EATING DIRT CAN
BE GOOD FOR YOU
MEDICAL GEOLOGY FORUM,
MALAYSIA
GEOGENIC DISEASE IN
THE GANGETIC PLAIN
LITHIUM IN GROUNDWATER
AND SUICIDE MORTALITY
MALIGNANCIES IN SWEDEN
AFTER CHERNOBYL
ECOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL
HABITAT QUALITY
ASSESSMENT
US NRC REPORT, EARTH
MATERIALS AND HEALTH:
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
IMGA AND GSA GEOLGY
AND HEALTH DIVISION
22ND HEMISPHERIC MEDICAL
GEOLOGY CONFERENCE, BRAZIL
NEW DISTANCE EDUCATION
COURSE IN MEDICAL GEOLOGY