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Court case · Arizona Supreme Court · May 10, 2017
City of Phoenix v. Glenayre Electronics, Inc. (2017)
…claims. The Arizona Supreme Court held that the statute applies to government entities despite the general exemption of the state from limitations periods and the common-law doctrine that time does not run against the government…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · October 15, 2018
Isernia v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…proof that its tiles caused his disease. The court denied the motion. On general causation, Amtico's own expert cited an EPA statement that chrysotile is associated with mesothelioma, and the other experts did not dispute…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 4, 2018
Shulman v. Imerys Talc America (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…as to Imerys. Imerys is a Delaware corporation based in California, so New York had no general jurisdiction over it. The court nonetheless found specific jurisdiction under New York's long-arm statute. In interrogatory answers…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · December 17, 2014
Crawford v. Alcoa (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2014)
…the substances to Crawford's specific lung diseases. Her doctor filed three affidavits that discussed contaminants in general terms and did not tie them to her specific disease. The District Court dismissed the case with prejudice…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · May 23, 2017
Hodjera v. BASF Catalysts LLC (2017)
…in Ohio, asked to be dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court agreed. It found no general jurisdiction, because Dana Companies is neither incorporated nor headquartered in Washington. It found no specific jurisdiction either. The…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · March 2, 2012
John Crane, Inc. v. Hardick (2012)
…whether under DOHSA, the Jones Act, or general maritime law, and a Navy sailor who contributed to the function of vessels and had a substantial connection to them is a seaman. Arguments not briefed under Rule…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Survival patterns in lung and pleural cancer in Europe 1999-2007: Results from the EUROCARE-5 study
…and 34,146 pleural cancer patients diagnosed in 2000–2007, followed to the end of 2008. Relative survival compares patients with the general population. For lung cancer, relative survival was 39% at 1 year and 13…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Pleural mesothelioma in Poland: Spatial analysis of malignant mesothelioma prevalence in the period 1999-2013
…Geostatistical analysis shows that strong spatial clustering of MM incidence (referring to the general population as well as females and males separately) during the period 1999-2013 in the administrative units of Poland (provinces and counties…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
MesoTRAP: a feasibility study that includes a pilot clinical trial comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial
…Another is video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication (VAT-PD). Performed under general anaesthesia, VAT-PD permits surgical removal of the rind of tumour from the visceral pleura thereby allowing the lung to fully re-expand…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Patterns in the incidence, mortality and survival of malignant pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, New South Wales, 1972-2009
…in 2009. The rate for men peaked at 5.7 per 100,000 (95% CI 4.7–6.6) in 1994. Relative survival compares patients with the general population. For people diagnosed 2000 to 2006, five…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Occupational exposure to flour dust and the risk of head and neck cancer
…cancers, diagnosed between 2001 and 2007, with 762 women and 2745 men randomly selected from the general population as controls. Flour dust exposure was estimated from each person's job history using a job-exposure matrix…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Pleural small cell carcinoma with massive pleural effusion: A case report
…staining tests showed small cell carcinoma instead, and further scans found no tumor in the lung. Because of the patient's old age and poor general condition, chemotherapy was not given. Only the fluid was drained…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Iron from a geochemical viewpoint. Understanding toxicity/pathogenicity mechanisms in iron-bearing minerals with a special attention to mineral fibers
…the role of iron in erionite's toxicity is controversial. The authors stated that a general model of how iron leads to adverse effects is still missing. They concluded that the crystal chemistry and surface chemistry…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Assessment of physicians' proficiency in reading chest radiographs for pneumoconiosis, based on a 60-film examination set with two factors constituting eight indices
…based on the participants' specialty: radiology, respiratory medicine, industrial medicine, public health, general internal medicine, and miscellaneous physicians. Our analysis revealed that radiologists had a significant difference in the mean scores of X3, X5, and X8…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Anthophyllite asbestos: state of the science review
…a standardized incidence ratio of 67 (95% CI 18 to 172) for mesothelioma in heavily exposed men who had worked at least 3 months, compared with the eastern Finland general population. In one reviewed rat study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Impact of low-dose computed tomography screening on lung cancer mortality among asbestos-exposed workers
…deaths from all cancers or from malignant neoplasm of the pleura. Deaths from pleural cancer were higher than in the general population in both groups. The authors concluded that taking part in screening was associated with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Management of malignant pleural mesothelioma - part 1: epidemiology, diagnosis, and staging : Consensus of the Austrian Mesothelioma Interest Group (AMIG)
…2005. The authors noted uncertainty about cases not reported to AUVA. They stated that current European guidelines recommend no general screening, and that blood biomarkers give too many false-positive results to be reliable screening tools…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…workers came mainly from two companies, the Holmes Foundry and Fiberglas Canada. Almost every respondent said publicity focused on asbestos alone rather than on workplace carcinogens in general. Labor activists said that, through the occupational clinic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Asbestos and the lung: highlights of a detrimental relationship
…pleural diseases. They described a study in which asbestos workers employed for at least 20 years in places with moderate to high exposure had a 10-fold higher lung cancer risk than the general population. Another…