263 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 12 of 14
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Malignant transformation of immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by asbestos fibers
…these BEP2D cells after a single, 7-day treatment with a 20-microgram/ml (4 micrograms per cm2 area) dose of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) Rhodesian chrysotile fibers. Asbestos treatment resulted in a surviving…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Particle toxicology: from coal mining to nanotechnology
…Current particle research in Europe is dominated by PM, and funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), European Union Framework programs, and the Health Effects Institute (HEI). Differences between historical and current research in particle toxicology…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Auscultated forced expiratory time as a clinical and epidemiologic test of airway obstruction
…male plumbers and pipefitters were evaluated by spirometry, chest roentgenography, and a standardized respiratory questionnaire during a union-sponsored asbestos screening program. Subjects were classified as having large airway obstruction (LAO), small airway obstruction (SAO) alone…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Sister chromatid exchanges in rat pleural mesothelial cells treated with crocidolite, attapulgite, or benzo 3-4 pyrene
…mutagen. The attapulgite sample came from Senegal and had fibres shorter than 2 µm. The crocidolite was a Union Internationale contre le Cancer sample. Cells between the 12th and 15th passage were treated with 10, 15…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Asbestos and lung cancer: what we know
…increased risk of lung cancer death in those with both exposures. Later reports on 17,800 union insulators showed a greater than fourfold increased risk. These studies had been criticized for comparing insulators with the U…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Soil fungi reduce the iron content and the DNA damaging effects of asbestos fibers
…the surface reactivity of asbestos fibers. One sample of chrysotile from the Western Alps and a sample of UICC (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer) crocidolite were incubated with or without fungi. All fungi extracted iron from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Trends in the health of the asbestos worker
…the Johns-Manville Corporation, commented on the health of asbestos workers and on how asbestos-related disease had been reported. He argued that the term "asbestos worker" was used too loosely. Insulation union members might have…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Dasatinib: an anti-tumour agent via Src inhibition
…BCR-ABL fusion protein and SFKs, which led to dasatinib approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Union for the treatment of imatinib-resistant or -intolerant CML, and Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Combined use of X-ray photoelectron and Mössbauer spectroscopic techniques in the analytical characterization of iron oxidation state in amphibole asbestos
…Fe(III)/Fe(tot) ratios. A standard reference asbestos (Union Internationale Contre le Cancer crocidolite from South Africa) and three fibrous tremolite samples (from Italy and USA) were investigated. In addition to the Mössbauer spectroscopy study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Effect of mineral dusts on metabolic cooperation between Chinese hamster V79 cells in vitro
…communication. The three dusts studied were: amosite, a fibrous asbestos from the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) standard reference series, which is a typical carcinogenic fibrous dust inducing pleural tumors following intrapleural injection into rats…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Asbestos-related occupational cancers compensated under the Spanish National Insurance System, 1978-2011
…activity, and occupation were obtained. We compared mortality rates of mesothelioma and bronchus and lung cancer mortality in Spain and the European Union. Between 1978 and 2011, 164 asbestos-related occupational cancers were recognized in Spain…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
A bibliometric analysis of scientific production in mesothelioma research
…cancer literature (123.5%). In these two decades, 2559 articles with IF were published: 46.4% came from the European Union (EU) (the UK, Italy and France ranking at the top), and 36.2% from the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…refinery. They also noted that Selikoff et al. (1979) reported many such cases among union contract workers, who had the heaviest asbestos exposures but were not included in company studies. The authors concluded that there can…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
An analysis of violations of Osha's (1987) occupational exposure to benzene standard
…government entities), given that the OSH Act primarily covers private sector employers. More violations have also been issued during inspections where union representation was present and from complaint-driven (vs. planned or other) inspections, which is…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Mortality among unionized construction plasterers and cement masons
…cement masons who entered the union after 1950. The present study suggests that plasterers and cement masons still have elevated risks for certain diseases, especially lung and stomach cancer. Therefore, union members currently living should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Residential proximity to naturally occurring asbestos: health risk or ecologic fallacy?
…lifetime residential history was a limitation. They reported an unpublished analysis showing no differential movement of former asbestos union members from the San Francisco Bay Area to counties with more NOA. They also suggested a prospective…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Synthetic vitreous fibers: a review of toxicology research and its impact on hazard classification
…regulation of SVFs. For a nonhazardous classification, legislation recently passed by the European Union requires a respirable insulation wool to have a low lung-biopersistence or be noncarcinogenic in laboratory rats. U.S. fiberglass and mineral…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Efficacy and safety of an intensified schedule of tremelimumab for chemotherapy-resistant malignant mesothelioma: an open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study
…response (complete or partial), assessed in all patients who received at least one dose of the study drug. This study is registered with the European Union Clinical Trials Register, number 2012-002762-12, and ClinicalTrials.gov…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
James Hardie asbestos victims compensation summary
This is not a research study. It is a fact sheet and timeline from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), reprinted in a journal. It covers compensation for victims of James Hardie, described as Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Retired and former asbestos workers in Hawaii
…former male asbestos workers in Hawaii. Most had worked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, and a few were contacted through two unions. Of 1,401 men reached by letter, 741 replied and 411 were interviewed…