3 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Exposure of sheet-metal workers to asbestos during the construction and renovation of commercial buildings in New York City. A case study in social medicine
…buildings. In 1982 the Occupational Health Program of Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine initiated a multidimensional asbestos evaluation and intervention program for the sheet-metal industry and union in New York…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
The role of intervention studies in ascertaining the contribution of dietary factors in lung cancer. The Seattle chemoprevention trial of retinoids in asbestos-exposed workers
…at Bremerton, medical specialists, lawyers and union screening programs. The planned double-blind randomized trial required about 2500 subjects (1250 per arm) receiving 25,000 units of retinol plus 15 mg of beta-carotene daily, or…