37 results for “Owens-Corning Fiberglas”, page 1 of 2
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of a fiberglass manufacturing facility. II. Exposure assessment
A case-control study of malignant and non-malignant respiratory disease among employees of the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation's Newark, Ohio plant was undertaken. The aim was to determine the extent to which exposures to…
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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 · 2021
Dual Screen for Efficacy and Toxicity Identifies HDAC Inhibitor with Distinctive Activity Spectrum for BAP1-Mutant Uveal Melanoma
This laboratory study did not involve asbestos or people with mesothelioma. It concerned uveal melanoma, an eye cancer, and the gene BAP1, which the authors note is also mutated in mesothelioma and other cancers. The authors looked for drugs that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestosis among electricians
This cross-sectional study examined 38 of 39 eligible union electricians who had worked on renovating a specific building in May 1985, when asbestos exposure was documented. Exact exposure values were unknown, so the authors used years worked as an…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Measurement of asbestos dust levels in British asbestos factories in the 1930s
…which treated the average dust level of spinners as a "dust datum." Those data came from 51 samples in eight factories, taken with an Owens Jet Counter, which could not tell asbestos fibers from other particles…
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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 · 2017
Loss of BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) expression is rare in non-small cell lung cancer
This laboratory study, by Vancouver pathologists, asked how often non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) loses a protein called BAP1. Loss of BAP1 on tissue staining helps pathologists diagnose malignant mesothelioma, so the authors wanted to know how…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Carcinoma and asbestosis of the lung; report of a case
This article reports a single case. The patient, a 39-year-old man, had been a ship's steward for five years and before that had kept a greengrocery business for fifteen years. Twenty years earlier he had worked for twelve months in an asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Mesothelial tumors and exposure to asbestos dust
The author, a hospital pathologist in Liverpool, England, re-examined 30 cases of cancer of the chest or abdominal lining from Liverpool and the Merseyside area, covering ten years from 1953. All had at some point been suggested to be diffuse…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Diffuse mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos dust in the Merseyside area
This 1964 report described 17 people with diffuse mesothelioma (16 pleural, one peritoneal) in Merseyside, England. Most cases came from Liverpool cancer and thoracic surgery records for 1955 to 1963. The author re-examined tissue, took work…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Dosimetry of inhaled elongate mineral particles in the respiratory tract: The impact of shape factor
This article was an overview of a computer model, the multi-path particle dosimetry (MPPD) model version 3.04, with example simulations of how elongate mineral particles (EMPs), a group that includes asbestos fibers, are breathed in and deposited in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1974
A survey of occupational cancer in the rubber and cablemaking industries: results of five-year analysis, 1967-71
Fox, A. J., Lindars, D. C., and Owen, R. (1974).British Journal of Industrial Medicine,31, 140-151. A survey of occupational cancer in the rubber and cablemaking industries: results of five-year analysis, 1967-71…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Pleural mesothelial cells stimulated by asbestos release chemotactic activity for neutrophils in vitro
This was a laboratory study of cells grown in dishes, not a study of people. The authors cultured pleural mesothelial cells (cells lining the chest cavity) from 16 rabbits and exposed them to crocidolite or chrysotile asbestos in serum-free medium.…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma and asbestos exposure
This case series, continuing an earlier one by Owen, covered 52 people with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosed between 1955 and 1970 at three Merseyside hospitals in England. Industrial histories confirmed asbestos exposure in 80% of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos containing materials in schools of Rome and surrounding area (Italy)
…vinyl floor tiles. Forty also had friable ACM, such as boiler insulation, linings of laboratory ovens and centrifuges, and Bunsen burner gauze mats. Crocidolite with chrysotile was found in about 80% of roofing samples, and vinyl…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Health survey of former workers in a Norwegian coke plant: Part. 1. Estimation of historical exposures
…monoxide (CO) and heat) based on measurements and other indicators of exposure. Exposure to PAHs was highest for those who worked at the top of the ovens (300 micrograms/m3) in the period from 1970-6…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Medico-legal issues in occupational lung disease litigation
…groups. The case settled confidentially in July 1991. The authors explained that a physician retained by an attorney to examine radiographs or a claimant owes a duty of care to the attorney, not the patient, though…
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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 · 1991
Difficulties of attribution of effect in workers exposed to fiberglass and asbestos
…the air in a manufacturing plant where ovens insulated with asbestos were continuously cleaned, repaired, dismantled, and rebuilt. It appears that attribution of the effects of their exposure to fiberglass could not be estimated independently of…