1,676 results for “General Electric”, page 43 of 84
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Awake video-assisted pleural decortication for empyema thoracis
…by video-assisted keyhole surgery in 15, and by open thoracotomy in four with major pleural thickening. None needed general anaesthesia. During surgery the blood oxygen measure showed no significant overall change; carbon dioxide rose slightly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Parental occupational exposure and risk of childhood central nervous system tumors: a pooled analysis of case-control studies from Germany, France, and the UK
…face-to-face or by telephone. A general population job-exposure matrix was used to assign a level of exposure to each job. Logistic regression models were fitted to compute odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Respiratory illness in asbestos contaminated sites: the role of environmental exposure
…Plaques had a significant effect on forced vital capacity in males. Pleural abnormalities were less prevalent in the general population exposed after 1976. The editorial authors argued that exposure categories should consider distance from fibre sources…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Valproate-doxorubicin: promising therapy for progressing mesothelioma. A phase II study
…patients (16%; 95% CI 3 to 25%) had a partial response. All seven were in good general condition (performance status 80 to 100), though statistical tests found no factor that significantly predicted response. The best disease…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Investigation of occupational and environmental causes of respiratory cancers (ICARE): a multicenter, population-based case-control study in France
…was linked to cancer risk. The study included 2926 people with lung cancer, 2415 with head and neck cancer and 3555 comparison subjects from the general population. Between 2001 and 2007, cases were identified with cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Prognosis and prognostic factors of patients with mesothelioma: a population-based study
…more than 2 years, and less than 15% were alive at 3 years, against 90% of people of similar age and gender in the general Dutch population. After adjusting for other factors, worse survival was associated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Community-level social support responses in a slow-motion technological disaster: the case of Libby, Montana
…enacted) support, 12.7% versus 5.3%. Only 4 of 31 ARD participants (12.9%) called Libby supportive in general, versus 9 of 17 family members (52.9%) and 10 of 23 others (43.5%). Each…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Pemetrexed re-challenge in pleural malignant mesothelioma: an option for a subset of patients initially treated with pemetrexed-platinum doublets in the first-line setting?
…results as background. As the editorial described it, the Ceresoli study included 32 patients in good general condition whose disease had not progressed for at least 3 months after first-line treatment. On re-treatment, 19%…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Reply: No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…wrong population. According to the author, both cases and controls came from the French general population, and the two sets of cases (1987–1996 and 1998–2006) showed no significant differences in socioeconomic status. The author…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · July 29, 2015
Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. (2015)
…of asbestos knowledge, the Walsh-Healey Act, specific risk percentages, life expectancy, and general symptoms and quality of life, plus an unlisted 1956 article. It also struck his rebuttal report to Dr. Stockman. It kept the…
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Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 2013
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2013)
…accrued at the first diagnosis, asbestosis, not the later mesothelioma diagnosis. The court said any change must come from the General Assembly. Two justices dissented. They would have treated mesothelioma as a separate cause of action.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 29, 2019
Mantovi v. American Biltrite (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…types or to exposure levels in other studies. The court found the plaintiffs had not raised a triable issue on general or specific causation and granted the motion. It dismissed the claims and cross-claims against…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · May 14, 2013
Wannall v. Honeywell International, Inc. (2013)
…held that the earlier expert opinions, which spoke only of cumulative exposure, substantial contribution or general risk, did not show that the brake exposure alone was sufficient to cause the cancer. It said the new declaration…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · April 9, 2014
Hasenberg v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2014)
…not make clear which defendants were sued in which counts, the court dismissed it without prejudice and ordered an amended complaint by May 9, 2014. It also noted general personal jurisdiction standards for a later motion.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Invited Commentary
…at one center by one surgeon. The author concluded that age alone should not decide fitness for surgery. In the author's view, measures of general well-being and activity should stay central to surgical decisions.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Simian virus 40 may be associated with developing malignant pleural mesothelioma
…needs larger studies with more reliable detection methods. They noted several limitations: the small sample, possible false or missed results from the staining method, and no published data on SV40 levels in Vietnam's general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Absence of multiplicative interactions between occupational lung carcinogens and tobacco smoking: a systematic review involving asbestos, crystalline silica and diesel engine exhaust emissions
…The silica studies disagreed on the additive scale. The authors concluded that, in general, there is no multiplicative interaction between these exposures and smoking, and that the evidence was insufficient to conclude on the additive scale…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
OSHA and elongate mineral particles
…new rulemaking if there are sufficient data and exposed employees. They could also be regulated under OSHA's General Duty section if four conditions are met, including a recognized serious hazard and a feasible way to…