449 results for “General Electric”, page 11 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma and non-occupational environmental exposure to asbestos
…the plant. The numbers were small, but rates appeared to fall with distance from Casale Monferrato. They discussed possible biases and concluded that a cancer risk from asbestos may arise in the general, non-occupational environment.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
New molecular and epidemiological issues in mesothelioma: role of SV40
…was difficult to draw conclusions. They suggested that SV40 and asbestos might act together. The authors concluded that it would be premature to reach definitive conclusions about SV40's role in mesothelioma in the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Peritoneal mesothelioma: the role of computed tomography in diagnosis and follow up
…On follow-up, seven of eight patients showed increasing disease, but this was judged by general impression rather than precise measurement. The authors found no CT feature that was diagnostic. They concluded that CT is at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Analysis of asbestos fiber burden in lung tissue from mesothelioma patients
…those without, but the authors found the ranges too wide to predict asbestosis from fiber counts. The authors concluded that most patients had a confirmed asbestos burden above general population levels, often of mixed types. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Predictors of participant retention in two chemoprevention feasibility trials
…the placebo run-in. The most frequently reported reasons for becoming inactive during the pilot studies were general health issues and problems and symptoms that were seen as specific to the CARET vitamins. These findings suggest…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · November 5, 1997 · in the opinion
Ciletti v. Raymark Indus. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 1997)
In general, filing a proof of claim would not appear to constitute settlement under § 15-108. The plaintiff's proffer of a release to the defendant has been called "the defining moment of settlement", In re…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
The relationship between respiratory impairment and asbestos-related pleural abnormality in an active work force
With the general improvement in environmental controls in workplaces where asbestos is used, an increasing number of workers are seen who exhibit isolated pleural plaques. The question as to whether these are associated with respiratory impairment…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality among United Kingdom servicemen who served abroad in the 1950s and 1960s
The Registrar General's decennial supplements on occupational mortality provide only limited information on mortality in the armed forces in the United Kingdom. Mortality has therefore been studied among a group of 30,619 United Kingdom…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Occupational life course and lung cancer risk in men. Findings from a socio-epidemiological analysis of job-changing histories in a case-control study
Psychosocial factors in general, and the social and psychological conditions of work and occupation in particular, have attracted little attention to the epidemiological investigation into the occupational-related causes of lung cancer. There is some evidence…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural malignant mesothelioma in Tuscany, Italy (1970-1988): I. Anatomo-pathologic aspects
Our investigation did not confirm the general experience that significant numbers of cases initially considered malignant mesothelioma or metastatic carcinoma are actually found to be metastatic carcinoma or malignant mesothelioma, respectively, upon deeper investigation using ancillary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
There is extensive information on discordance in general between accuracy of medical diagnoses on death certificate categorization of cause of death and available clinical and histopathological data. This is as true for occupational disease as for…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Appeals · April 10, 1992 · in the opinion
Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Balbos (1992)
Castleman also testified that some general-knowledge encyclopedias included notes on asbestosis as early as 1939 or 1940. The Court of Special Appeals reviewed this evidence and held that "\[a\] jury ... could reasonably infer that Porter…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Pleural mesothelioma
Diffuse pleural malignant mesothelioma (DMM) is an uncommon tumor in the general population, but its incidence can be very high in persons exposed to asbestos. There has been controversy about the role of the different fiber…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 23, 1999 · in the opinion
Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp. (1999)
The "fund" in this case comprised both the general assets of Fibreboard and the insurance assets provided by the two policies, see 90 F. 3d, at 982 (describing the fund as Fibreboard's entire equity and…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 25, 1997 · in the opinion
Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor (1997)
"But the settlement does more than simply provide a general recovery fund," the Court of Appeals immediately added; "\[r\]ather, it makes important judgments on how recovery is to be allocated among different kinds of plaintiffs…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · February 13, 1993
Union Carbide Chemicals and Plastics Company's Responses to Plaintiff's Interrogatories in Gambrell v. The Aber Company, with Shipment Printouts and Calidria Literature Lists (1993)
First page of Union Carbide's responses to interrogatories, caption and general objections (Gambrell v. Aber Co.) Signature page (James D. Stanton, DeHay & Elliston) and certificate of service dated February 13, 1993; stamped page 40 of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Survival of asbestos insulation workers with mesothelioma
Malignant mesothelioma is a lethal disease. It is rare in the general population; however, workers exposed to asbestos suffer significant burdens of the neoplasm. The survival time of 457 consecutive fatal cases of pleural and peritoneal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Asbestos exposure and ovarian fiber burden
Epidemiologic studies suggest increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in female asbestos workers and increased risk of malignancy in general in household contacts of asbestos workers. Ovaries were studied from 13 women with household contact with…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · July 27, 1993 · in the opinion
Dunn v. Hovic (1993)
I do not propose to enter the debate here over the merits of punitive damages in general.\[1\] For purposes of this case, I accept the premise that in appropriate cases punitive damages may be assessed…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · January 17, 1995 · in the opinion
Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995)
…the court was confronted with a complicated claim that General Motors' defective design of the wheel assembly and front floorboard enhanced the injuries the plaintiff suffered when another car collided with the left front wheel area…