825 results for “General Electric”, page 19 of 42
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Pleural mesothelioma risk in the construction industry: a case-control study in Italy, 2000-2018
…for blue-collar occupations (1993 cases, OR 4.52), including bricklayers (988 cases, OR 7.05), general construction workers (320 cases, OR 4.66), plumbers and pipe fitters (305 cases, OR 9.13), painters (104 cases…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Mortality among U.S. military participants at eight aboveground nuclear weapons test series
…2010. The authors compared their death rates with those of U.S. men in general and tested whether estimated radiation doses were linked to causes of death. Overall deaths were slightly below expected (standardized mortality ratio…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Public Health Value of Opioid Litigation
…not prompt changes such as an outright ban on asbestos. For opioids, the author reported settlements rising from $19.5 million (27 state attorneys general against Purdue Pharma, 2007) to $270 million (Oklahoma against Purdue, 2019)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Asbestos and disease - a public health success story?
…Swedish study showed that the general ban and other measures have decreased the risk of malignancies due to occupational exposure. The effect of the bans on adverse effects in the general population has yet to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Synchronous Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Sigmoid Adenocarcinoma: a Challenging Clinical Entity
…the final diagnosis was sigmoid adenocarcinoma with synchronous MPM. The patient was started on palliative chemotherapy (capecitabine) without active management of MPM because of her general condition. She was followed up with a good clinical course…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Tissue burden evaluation of elongated mineral particles in two individuals with mesothelioma and whose work history included manufacturing tile
…1, and 1944 and 42 in two Case 2 samples. The laboratory's general-population upper limit for lung tissue was 20 or fewer ferruginous bodies per gram of wet tissue. Lung asbestos fiber counts, per…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Occupational Asbestos Exposure and Kidney Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies
…mortality studies and 59 278 in incidence studies, with 468 kidney cancer deaths and 160 new kidney cancer cases. Each study compared the workers with the general population. Overall, kidney cancer deaths among exposed workers were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Environmental and ecological factors of stomach cancer incidence and mortality: a systematic review study on ecological studies
…keepers exposed to asbestos in drinking water. The review reported that this study found a positive correlation between ingested asbestos and gastrointestinal cancer in general and stomach cancer specifically. The review gave no figures for it…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · November 23, 2021
Johnson v. Orton (2021)
…Circuit's Krik decision. It limited Monona Rossol to ceramics, as agreed. It limited Dr. Barry Castleman to general historical testimony, barring opinions on Vanderbilt's knowledge, motives or lobbying. It allowed Dr. William Longo's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
What is the potential of compensation funds for addressing COVID-related personal injury?
…related schemes, and Belgian and Dutch asbestos funds were cited as examples paying fixed amounts. The authors concluded that applying the fund model to general COVID-19 loss is potentially fraught with difficulty and unmanageable expense.
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · July 14, 2020
Luca v. The Neslemur Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…of State was valid for a dissolved foreign corporation that had been authorized in New York. It found no general jurisdiction. It found specific jurisdiction because Luca's exposure and injury occurred in New York from…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 28, 2020
Germain v. The Neslemur Co. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
…mistaken use of § 307 did not matter. It found no general jurisdiction but found specific jurisdiction under CPLR 302(a)(1) and (2), because Neslemur was headquartered and manufactured in New York when the exposure occurred.
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · October 31, 2022
In re All Matters Related TO North American Refractories Company (2022)
…or the common law. The court found nothing improper in parties redacting exhibits they chose to introduce. It added that, even if access applied, it would have been limited to claimant names and general medical condition.
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana · September 16, 2020
Hostetler v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (2020)
…plaintiffs offered no evidence of how much any of them was exposed to, and the expert assumed only that exposure was above background. The court left open whether the experts' general testimony could still be offered.
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · December 12, 2022
Boutte v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2022)
…adopted allegations identified the workplaces, that missing job and date details could be learned in discovery, and that McDermott could simply deny the general paragraphs that did not apply to it. The pleading was not unintelligible.
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · October 25, 2022
Walls v. Ford Motor Company (2022)
…cited apply the same substantial-factor test the court had used. It noted that its later Daubert order allowed three other experts to give general causation testimony, and two of them to give specific causation testimony…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Biocompatibility and Carcinogenicity of Carbon Nanotubes as Biomaterials
…that nanotube carcinogenicity is caused by exposure of mesothelial tissue, and that medical use may be feasible if general safety and carcinogenicity tests give good results. They noted that nanotube types and doses vary between reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Malignant Diffuse Mesothelioma in Women: A Study of 354 Cases
… chrysotile was never the only fiber type. The authors concluded that peritoneal mesotheliomas in women, in general, are not likely to be caused by asbestos exposure. They noted that 95% of cases came from litigation and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Malignant Mesothelioma
…The findings it credits to named authors come from those separate articles, while its opening paragraph gave the editors' general overview of recent research. The authors concluded that the 19 articles might help reach the goal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
What are the psychological effects of mesothelioma on patients and their carers? A scoping review
…et al.) reported that mesothelioma patients had the highest suicide risk of all cancer types in the first six months after diagnosis, 8.61-fold compared with the general population. No study explored carers' experience separately…