10 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 · 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 · 1999
A study of lung cancer mortality in asbestos workers: Doll, 1955
…mice by asbestos, were circulated in confidence to its scientists, but being unpublished were unknown to the general scientific community. There were also cancer mortality data recorded for populations of exposed asbestos workers, but these were…
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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…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
The priority for recognizing asbestos as a multicentre carcinogen, and problems in categorizing asbestos tumours
…cited an earlier register study of 246 malignant mesothelioma cases in which three had additional primary cancers. That was not significantly different from the 1.2% rate in a separate review of 3,771 general autopsies.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Cape Asbestos, Barking, health and environment: 1928-1946
…Barking, and that its exhaust ventilation was quite up to the general standard and constantly being improved. Reports on the factory environment and information on the health of Cape's workforce that are available for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
The doctors and the dockers
…The Registrar General's occupational mortality report for 1951, noted excess tumors of the lung and stomach for dockers. Elevated Standardized Mortality Ratios for lung cancer had consistently been calculated by the Registrar General for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
Mesothelioma register 1967-68
…but, in general, mesothelioma occured at an earlier age than carcinoma of bronchus and lung' or all malignant tumours' in the Registrar General's statistical mortality tables. Concomitant asbestosis and the finding of asbestos bodies or…