4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos fibres and the environment
This article in a British Medical Journal series on pollution reviewed what was known about asbestos fibres and the risk to the general public. The author first discussed why cancer risk differed between groups of asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Can society live with asbestos?
…agreeing the data could be interpreted in other ways. The general view at the meeting was that rigorously enforced current standards should mean virtually no health effects. Dr J C Wagner described studies of 32 man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Smoking, coal, asbestos, and the lungs
…asbestos levels and smoking would cut lung cancer in workers, that cutting smoking would have more effect in asbestos-exposed workers than in the general population, and that banning tobacco advertising would be a sensible next…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos--can it be used safely?
…to crocidolite. For Quebec chrysotile miners and millers, the mesothelioma risk was perhaps three to six times that of the general population, compared with 100-200 times in insulation workers exposed to mixed fibres. Some data…