427 results for “General Electric”, page 10 of 22
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Combined effect of asbestos and smoking on mortality from lung cancer and mesothelioma in factory workers
…Deaths were tracked to 1980. There was no unexposed comparison group, so lung cancer deaths were compared with numbers expected from death rates in the general population of the region, adjusted for smoking. After this adjustment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestos associated tumours in car mechanics
…cancer register (1961-79, ages 20 to 69), and compared observed cases with the numbers expected from the general population. One mesothelioma was found in the cancer register and none in the death register. That man…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Primary mesothelioma of atrioventricular node: cause of sudden death
…by epithelial cells within dense fibrous tissue, which destroyed much of the conducting tissue. The author noted general agreement that this kind of lesion is congenital, meaning present from birth, but some disagreement about where it…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
International classification trial of AIA set of 100 radiographs of asbestos workers
…the best estimate for each film. For small opacities in the lung tissue, the authors judged that differences between readers were not large compared with general variability in reading. Even so, the share of films each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Dysphagia due to mesothelioma infiltrating the oesophagus: palliative treatment
…found a tumour completely blocking it. A guide wire could not be passed through the stricture, so a tube was placed in the oesophagus under general anaesthetic via a gastrotomy. Afterwards she improved quickly, went home…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Malignant mesothelioma in British Columbia in 1982
…construction or insulation trades. In lung tissue from six men, chrysotile was within the general-population range, but amosite and crocidolite were raised about 300-fold on average; two men also had raised noncommercial amphiboles such…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
The pathology of asbestos related disease
…from 1 000 000 to several hundred million in severe asbestosis. It reported that mesothelioma cases in general had chrysotile counts no higher than controls. It described mesothelioma cases with no asbestos bodies in lung sections…
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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 · 1980
Forensic detection and investigation of occupational-environmental disease
…been found in 7 to 11% of deaths after asbestos exposure, compared with about 0.1 or 0.01% of deaths in the nonexposed general population. It also stated that pleural plaques and asbestos (ferruginous) bodies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Tremolite/chrysotile ratios
…on lung fibers in processed-chrysotile workers, chrysotile miners, and the general population. That paper had reported a tremolite-to-chrysotile ratio of 9.7 for processed-ore workers. The letter writers said the paper's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Health effects of indoor pollutants
…Data were limited, applied mostly to schools and office buildings, and indicated that general public exposure there was apparently exceedingly low. Control by fixatives was judged probably better than removal. Synthetic fibers were described as much…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Indoor air pollution: a public health perspective
…than 100 fibers per milliliter during disruptive contact maintenance to ceilings. They wrote that risks to the general public were unknown because exposure-effect data came only from occupational settings. Unless the material was extremely friable…
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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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Company document · JM Document Review · September 27, 1984
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Chenoweth and Machle's Industrial Hygiene Handbook (1984)
…its chapter on dust diseases is mostly about silicosis, with "only a brief mention of asbestosis," which she quoted: asbestosis is caused by breathing fine asbestos dust, a "general lung fibrosis follows and disability is marked."
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Company document · JM Document Review · September 27, 1984
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on Collis and Greenwood's The Health of the Industrial Worker (1984)
…Gaul found its chapter on cancer "very general," and its section on dust and lung disease made "no mention of asbestos." She quoted the book's statement that dust phthisis "is only associated with exposure to…
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Company document · JM Document Review · November 11, 1986
Lois Gaul's Manville Memo on H. E. Mock's Industrial Medicine and Surgery (1986)
…of Northern Colorado. She reports that "there is no mention of asbestos hazards," though there is "some discussion of dust in general," a chapter on industrial hygiene and production during World War I, and a bibliography…
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Company document · 1989
Manville Fund's Answers to Interrogatories in Gunn v. Celotex (1989)
…Form B interrogatories in Gunn v. The Celotex Corporation, Civil Action 86-5090 in the U.S. District Court for New Jersey, sworn by the Fund's general counsel, David T. Austern, on December 7, 1989…