985 results for “General Electric”, page 24 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Lung fibre burden in lung cancer cases employed in the rock and slag wool industry
…dry lung. Asbestos fibres were found in 16 cases in minor amounts, described by the authors as similar to general-population levels. Lung fibre levels did not follow estimated exposure to MMVF or asbestos, and age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Absence of post-transcriptional RNA modifications of BCL10 in human malignant mesothelioma and colorectal cancer
…lines. SSCP revealed several different band shifts in these samples. The nucleotide changes observed in the cDNA samples were also seen in matched genomic DNA and corresponded to known polymorphisms in the general population. Thus, we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Mechanisms of asbestos-induced carcinogenesis
…mesothelioma, genetic changes found in human mesothelioma, and animal models. The review described a general consensus that the risk of mesothelioma and lung cancer is greatest with crocidolite, less with amosite, and apparently less with chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Insurance, reinsurance and underwriting names' liability for asbestos-related diseases
…cited earlier work by Hammond (1966), which reported a lung cancer risk 53 times the general population's level for people with both persistent asbestos exposure and smoking. It then described US court rulings and litigation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Public health impact of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest
…of whom were admitted to hospitals. Asbestos came up only as part of the hazardous-materials response: there was general concern about asbestos in the burned debris and in the air. County staff and the fire…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
No meeting of the minds on asbestos
…The other, called 'revisionist', held that chrysotile poses relatively little risk to the general public at usual exposure levels. The article cited 1970s studies indicating a smaller percentage of chrysotile-exposed workers dying of mesothelioma; the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Prognosis and prognostic factors of patients with mesothelioma: a population-based study
…more than 2 years, and less than 15% were alive at 3 years, against 90% of people of similar age and gender in the general Dutch population. After adjusting for other factors, worse survival was associated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
An industrial hygienist's perspective on generic standards
…The author, an industrial hygienist, argued that 1990s workplace regulation should concentrate mainly on "generic" standards for toxic materials in general, while keeping a way to add substance-specific requirements where appropriate. The author pointed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Increased risk of lung cancer in pesticide-exposed male agricultural workers
…5 yr. The SMR (standardized mortality ratio) of 2.0 for lung cancer morbidity (mortality) in these pesticide-exposed subjects was significantly higher than that for the general male population of the German Democratic Republic. A…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Tobacco and asbestos: consistent treatment advocated
…smoking estimates based on 800 interviews were unstable, given only 7% to 10% mean differences in smoking between white male automotive workers and the white male general population. They also argued that the adjustment method might…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Community-level social support responses in a slow-motion technological disaster: the case of Libby, Montana
…enacted) support, 12.7% versus 5.3%. Only 4 of 31 ARD participants (12.9%) called Libby supportive in general, versus 9 of 17 family members (52.9%) and 10 of 23 others (43.5%). Each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Pemetrexed re-challenge in pleural malignant mesothelioma: an option for a subset of patients initially treated with pemetrexed-platinum doublets in the first-line setting?
…results as background. As the editorial described it, the Ceresoli study included 32 patients in good general condition whose disease had not progressed for at least 3 months after first-line treatment. On re-treatment, 19%…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Reply: No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…wrong population. According to the author, both cases and controls came from the French general population, and the two sets of cases (1987–1996 and 1998–2006) showed no significant differences in socioeconomic status. The author…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
A technical comparison of evaluating asbestos concentration by phase-contrast microscopy (PCM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) as illustrated from data generated from a case report
…333 asbestos fibers per gram of deparaffinized wet tissue. Both laboratories found asbestos bodies above the level the authors cite as the upper limit expected in the general population. The authors calculated that 97% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Analysis of lung asbestos content
…In the author's laboratory the upper 95th percentile for the Vancouver general population was around 1 000 000 fibres each of chrysotile and tremolite and 10 000 fibres of amosite plus crocidolite per g of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
What is the potential of compensation funds for addressing COVID-related personal injury?
…related schemes, and Belgian and Dutch asbestos funds were cited as examples paying fixed amounts. The authors concluded that applying the fund model to general COVID-19 loss is potentially fraught with difficulty and unmanageable expense.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Biocompatibility and Carcinogenicity of Carbon Nanotubes as Biomaterials
…that nanotube carcinogenicity is caused by exposure of mesothelial tissue, and that medical use may be feasible if general safety and carcinogenicity tests give good results. They noted that nanotube types and doses vary between reports…