6 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Mortality from non-malignant respiratory disease in the fibreglass manufacturing industry
…influenza and pneumonia (NMRDxIP) among workers in a fibreglass wool manufacturing facility. A case-control study with cases and controls derived from deaths recorded from the Kansas City plant in the Owens Corning mortality surveillance system…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Saving the asbestos industry, 1960 to 2006
…million in sponsorship by 1999. Citing documents from a Texas court case, the article reported that Owens-Illinois made regular payments to Wagner from 1986, probably exceeding $300,000 in total. During this period Wagner's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Computed tomography features of liparitosis: a pneumoconiosis due to amorphous silica
…22 of 31 showed no changes, 6 showed pleural plaques and 3, who had worked at drying ovens, showed masses near the centre of the lungs. Detailed CT of the remaining 28 workers found pleural plaques…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in bakers and pastry cooks
… 222 cases). Field-investigations revealed asbestos-containing material (ACM) in ovens for baking bread, that were manufactured prior to the 1980s. It is suggested that there is a possible new association of the risk of having…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Molecular targets in malignant pleural mesothelioma treatment
…inhibitors like bevacizumab, are among the most promising agents under evaluation in clinical trials. Mesothelioma is a malignancy which owes its chemoresistance to an apoptotic defect. Thus the introduction of new biologic drugs like vorinostat, bortezomib…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Human T cell responses to endogenously presented HLA-A*0201 restricted peptides of Simian virus 40 large T antigen
…of SV40 specific human cytotoxic T lymphocytes that recognize endogenously processed peptides from SV40. This peptide identification study opens the possibility to investigate immune responses against SV40 in mesothelioma patients and in individuals exposed to SV40.