IIAC Meetings
Research Working Group Meeting
Thursday 25 January 2007, 10.00 a.m.
Agenda
- Minutes of the Last Meeting
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Silica-related COPD - Dr Lesley Rushton presentation
- Pesticides and Parkinson's disease
Relevant abstracts from the Pesticides Safety Directorate 1999-2005. Dr Lesley Rushton's comments.
- Organophosphates
Consideration of terms of prescription for PD C3 (Phosphorus). Literature search about peripheral neuropathy due to low dose exposure to organophosphates. Relevant abstracts from the Pesticides Safety Directorate 1999-2005.
- Asbestos bodies as diagnostic critieria
Letter from Dr Attenoos and letter from Dr Williams.
- Wood dust and nasopharyngeal cancer
Call for evidence made. Dr Anne Spurgeon's analysis of the literature.
- Osteoarthritis of the knee
Call for evidence made. Analysis of papers from Professor Coggon's medicolegal report by Dr Keith Palmer.
- Back and neck disorders
- AOB
Date of next meeting 10 May 2007