449 results for “General Electric”, page 10 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Environmental contaminants and low-level cancer risks: perceptions and scientific strategies
…concern, that data are limited and apply mostly to schools and office buildings, and that general public exposure to asbestos fibres in these buildings is apparently exceedingly low. The paper did not name a fiber type…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos: a chronology of its origins and health effects
…described, Doll's 1955 study of 113 men who had worked at least 20 years where they were exposed to asbestos dust found an average lung cancer risk 10 times that of the general population. Wagner…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Biological effects: asbestos-cement manufacturing
… if so, then the no-threshold model for lung cancer risk is inappropriate since there is general agreement that very low exposures will not result in radiologically detectable lung fibrosis. Further data on this potential link…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Pleural effusion during bromocriptine exposure in two patients with pre-existing asbestos pleural plaques: a relationship?
…also received steroids, had normal lung function 12 months after he first presented. The second man's general symptoms eased quickly, but his chest X-ray and lung function did not improve substantially. The authors concluded…
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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 · 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 · 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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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 27, 1990
Chevron USA v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1990)
…mesothelioma was not an outgrowth of the asbestosis. It also held that a 1986 California Supreme Court case, General Foundry, did not require a single date of injury. It denied the family's request for attorney…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 29, 1993
Angelo v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1993)
…It upheld exclusion of a treating doctor's deposition because the Angelos had not shown diligent efforts to secure his attendance. It found the reverse bifurcation proper, and the jury instructions and general verdict form adequate.
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 15, 1990
Uram v. Abex Corp. (1990)
…run long before 1987. For Virginia's consortium claim, the court applied the general one-year statute with a discovery rule. It found she should likewise have suspected the cause in 1976, so her claim was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Human risk assessment of carcinogens from an administrative perspective
…animal data, or positive in vitro data, especially from human or mammalian cells. Although low-exposure cancer risk to the general population cannot be proven, they concluded the risk must be minimized. Asbestos regulations, they noted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Drinking water and cancer
…water. The author also noted suggested elevations of gastric, kidney and pancreas cancers that warranted further investigation. The author named small relative risks and the difficulty of estimating past exposures as general problems in this research.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
The production of TNF-alpha and IL-1-like activity by bronchoalveolar leucocytes after intratracheal instillation of crocidolite asbestos
…both substances. The authors noted that low-level endotoxin in culture media could have contributed to background release. They concluded that, in general, asbestos exposure increased production of both substances, with short-term variations after instillation.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers 1955
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos exposure and fire fighting
…that fire fighters are at risk of asbestos-induced pleural and pulmonary fibrosis independent of other exposure. They noted that 9% pleural thickening exceeded the roughly 2% reported in general population studies. They recommended reducing exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Environmental airborne tremolite asbestos pollution and pleural plaques in Afghanistan
…and that this hazard may be encountered in Afghanistan. They could not obtain detailed information on how common pleural plaques on chest X-rays are in the general population of the Kabul area and Loghar region.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural plaques and exposure to asbestos: a mathematical model
…latency of around 13 years, 'a' around 0.4, and a constant depending on exposure intensity. The author noted that the model's general applicability cannot be judged until it is tested on other data sets.