6 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Letter to the Editor regarding Bullock 2020
…it added, Hamilton wrote to General Electric's president recommending better dust control and chest X-rays of the longest-exposed workers. They cited a 1935 Pennsylvania state report listing 45 UK references and over 30…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1963
Case 62-1963: Case Records Of The Massachusetts General Hospital
This article is a clinicopathological case record from the Massachusetts General Hospital. It discusses one patient, a fifty-six-year-old plumber admitted because of chest pain. He had worked as a plumber for forty years…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1953
Asbestosis And Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Report Of One Autopsied Case And Review Of The Available Literature
…reviewed published literature on asbestos exposure and lung cancer. The patient was a 41-year-old asbestos mill worker admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in April 1951. He had worked about twelve years in a mill…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Global corporate policies and international "double standards" in occupational and environmental health
…in others, using asbestos in Brazil as the main example. The author reported that General Motors still used asbestos engine gaskets in Brazil, although it had stopped using them in North America five years earlier. At…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Globally asbestos-free automobiles
…products and engine gaskets. According to the author, General Motors used asbestos gaskets in new engines in Brazil, although it had used safer substitutes in vehicles sold in North America since around 1993. A Brazilian government…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
The case for a global ban on asbestos
…cancer and mesothelioma. They described industry-sponsored "product defense" science. They cited a court document stating that General Motors, Ford and Chrysler paid almost $37 million between 2001 and 2008 to scientist-consultants. They reported that…