449 results for “General Electric”, page 7 of 23
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · November 29, 1995
Responses of Union Carbide Corporation to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories, In re Asbestos Litigation, Cameron County, Texas (1995)
…District Courts of Cameron County, Texas, served November 29, 1995. After general objections, most answers read 'This answer will be provided.' Substantive answers identify trial witnesses and experts, including Calidria witnesses and experts (Nos. 39, 60…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Global corporate policies and international "double standards" in occupational and environmental health
…in others, using asbestos in Brazil as the main example. The author reported that General Motors still used asbestos engine gaskets in Brazil, although it had stopped using them in North America five years earlier. At…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Lung cancer and mesothelioma in the pleura and peritoneum among Swedish insulation workers
…some years after the exposure had ended. In a cohort study the cancer morbidity and cause of death was investigated in 248 insulation workers and compared with the corresponding morbidity and mortality in the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Absence of evidence for a significant background incidence of diffuse malignant mesothelioma apart from asbestos exposure
…1940s. One must conclude that the background level of diffuse malignant mesothelioma in Europe and in the United States prior to 1930 was extremely low. No case was detected at the Massachusetts General Hospital until 1946.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis. A clinicopathologic analysis of 11 cases with review of the literature
…was a case series with a review of earlier published reports. The authors, from Maine Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, described 11 patients with malignant mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis, the lining around the testis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Occupational exposure to carcinogens and risk of lung cancer: results from The Netherlands cohort study
…dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and welding fumes) in a prospective cohort study among the general population, and to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases attributable to these occupational exposures. A prospective cohort study on diet…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos content of lung tissue, lymph nodes, and pleural plaques from former shipyard workers
…in tissue taken at autopsy from eight former shipyard workers, aged 58 to 82, at the General Hospital of Monfalcone, a shipyard town in northeastern Italy. Seven had work histories of 6 to 46 years in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Comparison of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and German Berufsgenossenschaften Guidelines for Preventive Occupational Health Examinations
…compared the medical examination requirements in U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) general industry standards with those in the German Berufsgenossenschaften guidelines for preventive occupational health examinations. They used a previously published method that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
New developments in asbestos-induced pleural disease
…plaques and diffuse pleural thickening, together called pleural fibrosis. It reported that across 16 general-population autopsy studies, pleural plaques were found in 857 of 7,085 autopsies (12.2 percent, range 0.5 to 39…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
What every physician should know about environmental health
…and chose textbooks, journal articles and government documents, favoring recent ones and those relevant to general practitioners. From these they listed what they called the top ten environmental health threats in the United States, including asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos-related pleural plaques and lung cancer
…pleural plaques and lung cancer in the absence of parenchymal asbestosis. There were six cohort studies in which the comparison group was limited to unexposed persons or the general population, four lung cancer case-control studies…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
The long-lasting legacy of industrial carcinogens: the lesson of asbestos. Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Lecture, 1995
…Lecture, given in 1995. Much of it is the author's general discussion of cancer and industrial carcinogens. Its main original content was a series of Italian mesothelioma cases collected by the European Ramazzini Foundation. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Hazards of white asbestos
…a letter to The Lancet, not a research study, written by a health and safety co-ordinator at the UK Transport and General Workers Union. It responded to a May 9, 1998 commentary by Mark Cullen…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Diet and other risk factors for laryngeal cancer in Shanghai, China
…box) in urban Shanghai, China. The authors interviewed 201 people newly diagnosed during 1988-1990 (177 men, 24 women) and 414 residents randomly selected from the general population (269 men, 145 women). Interviews covered smoking, drinking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer
The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Limitations in drawing etiologic inferences based on measurement of asbestos fibers from lung tissue
…exposure and disease cause from lung fiber and asbestos body counts. The author argued that autopsy subjects do not represent general-population deaths and that counts vary several-fold within one lung. Laboratory methods also differ…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · June 4, 1991
Bergeron v. Celotex Corp. (1991)
…1989. He had worked for Foster Wheeler as an ironworker from February to March 1967, when it was the general contractor building a steam generator at a plant in Michoud, Louisiana. Plaintiffs did not dispute that…