8 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 · 2005
Collegium Ramazzini statement on the Tokyo Declaration banning asbestos
…short editorial, not a research study. It was written by the President and Secretary General of the Collegium Ramazzini and published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. It reported that in November 2004, participants in…
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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 · 1991
Asbestos exposure and fire fighting
…that fire fighters are at risk of asbestos-induced pleural and pulmonary fibrosis independent of other exposure. They noted that 9% pleural thickening exceeded the roughly 2% reported in general population studies. They recommended reducing exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Occupational exposure to asbestos and ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis
…authors independently abstracted data; any disagreement was resolved by consulting a third reviewer. All but one study reported standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) comparing observed numbers of deaths with expected numbers for the general population; the exception…