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    The impact of the 2021 flood on the outpatient care in the North Rhine region, Germany: a cross-sectional study

    In the summer of 2021, heavy precipitation led to extreme flooding across Western Europe. In Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate were particularly affected. More than 180 people lost their...

    Luca Theresa Wiesehahn, Andrea Kaifie in BMC Public Health (2024)

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    Ten years after: findings from the medical surveillance program on Health Effects in High-Level Exposure to PCB (HELPcB)

    After the detection of high environmental and occupational exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in a German recycling company for transformers and capacitors in 2010, the multidisciplinary medical surv...

    Jens Rengelshausen, Isabella Randerath, Thomas Schettgen in Archives of Toxicology (2023)

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    Human detection thresholds of DC, AC, and hybrid electric fields: a double-blind study

    In the course of the ongoing transition of electric energy systems, transmission corridors are often upgraded to higher voltages and other technologies leading to another quality of human exposure. The study a...

    Michael Kursawe, Dominik Stunder, Thomas Krampert, Andrea Kaifie in Environmental Health (2021)