825 results for “General Electric”, page 23 of 42
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · January 4, 2023
Shellenberger v. Kreider Farms (2023)
…Failure to Warn; Premises Owner Liability; Employer and Contractor Liability, and Workers' Compensation; Wrongful Death and Survival Worksites: Kreider Farms dairy processing plant general manager of dairy plant operations Kreider Farms dairy processing plant 1972-1980
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · May 26, 2021
Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2021)
…be told this. In multi-defendant asbestos cases, medical causation instructions must include the frequency, regularity and proximity test, not just a general proximate cause charge. Causation; Product Identification; Failure to Warn; Design Defect; Sophisticated User…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · April 1, 2021
Lege v. Union Carbide Corporation (2021)
…affirmed the judgment for the Leges, including the 51% fault allocation to Birla. A jury's allocation of fault and general damages is reviewed for manifest error or abuse of discretion, and exposure need not be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Unusually Aggressive Presentation of Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Two Case Reports
…radiotherapy and/or intraperitoneal or systemic therapy. Prognosis depends on TNM stage and histologic subtype with epithelioid subtype being the most favorable one but in general remains poor. We present a 59-year-old male (patient…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
A clinical evaluation and tissue fiber burden analysis of a lifetime resident of Libby, Montana with adenocarcinoma of the lung
…lifelong resident of Libby and whose history of exposure was as a member of the general population there. To our knowledge this is the first time tissue from a member of the general population of Libby…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Fusobacterium nucleatum-Induced Empyema Masquerading as Lung Cancer: A Diagnostic Challenge
…and fatigue. He was referred by a general practitioner for evaluation of a round lesion in the right lung. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a pleural-based mass and small right-sided pleural effusion that was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Diffuse pleural thickening and thoracic contraction: An indistinguishable case from malignant pleural mesothelioma
…to take any kind of mesothelioma treatments. Four months later, she consented to a surgical pleural biopsy under general anesthesia to obtain larger tissue samples, which included typical proliferating polygonal cells positive for CAM5.2, calretinin…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Evaluation of Deposition and Clearance of Asbestos (Detected by SEM-EDS) in Lungs of Deceased Subjects Environmentally and/or Occupationally Exposed in Broni (Pavia, Northern Italy)
…certainly exposed to asbestos (mainly crocidolite and chrysotile) during their life. Moreover, we investigated possible correlations between the lung burden of asbestos (in general and considering each asbestos type), as well as their dimension (length, width…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The Wittenoom legacy
…products in Western Australia. As a result, the state has recorded a higher malignant-mesothelioma mortality rate than in any other Australian state and in any defined general population in the world. Thus, the legacy of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Incidence of Cancer and Asbestos-Related Diseases among Residents Living near Abandoned Asbestos Mines in South Korea: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using National Health Insurance Database
…Database of South Korea. We determined the risk of developing asbestos-related diseases (ARDs) among residents living near asbestos mines compared with those living in the control area and the general population. The risks of asbestosis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
A framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health: findings from a narrative review
…pharmaceuticals, weapons, textiles and asbestos, and a small number of general studies. We identified 18 types of NGO strategies, categorised according to the target (i.e. commercial actor or government actor) and type of interaction with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Development of Nationwide Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk Evaluation Methods with Comprehensive Past Asbestos Exposure Reconstruction
…calculate the Excess Lifetime Cancer Risk (ELCR) of Koreans. The past occupational exposure reconstruction was conducted by rebuilding the previous general population job-exposure matrix (JEM). The para-occupational and household exposure estimation was based on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Impact of climate change on temperature variations and extrinsic incubation period of malaria parasites in Chennai, India: implications for its disease transmission potential
…vivax was calculated from longitudinal temperatures recorded during both periods. Vector surveillance was also carried out in the area during the summer season. In general, temperature and daily temperature range (DTR) have increased significantly compared to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Awareness of environmental carcinogens and cancer risk among Jordanians
…This study aimed to assess Jordanians' awareness of some of the recognized environmental human carcinogens and general cancer information. This study was conducted using a cross-sectional descriptive survey based on a questionnaire completed by Jordanian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Symptom Burden and Unmet Needs in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Exploratory Analyses From the RESPECT-Meso Study
…of the symptom burden and unmet needs identified from RESPECT-Meso participants. Exploratory analysis from 174 participants using the General Health Status (GHS) measure (from the EORTC QLQ-C30 QoL questionnaire) and 87 participants using validated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
An Approach to Overcome the Limitations of Surveillance of Asbestos Related Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: What We Learned from the Sibaté Study in Colombia
…regional, and national authorities, as well as the general population. The active surveillance strategy successfully identified a mesothelioma cluster in Sibaté, revealing the inadequacy of the existing health information system in monitoring asbestos-related diseases. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
The role of sex in particle-induced inflammation and injury
…is greatly lacking. Only ~20% of basic research in the general sciences use both male and female animals and a substantial percentage of these do not address differences between sexes within their analyses. This has prevented…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Estimates of carbon nanotube deposition in the lung: improving quality and robustness
…particles, although experimental confirmation of this would be of benefit, especially given their low density. The validation of fiber deposition models is significantly less extensive and, in general, focused on larger particles, e.g. asbestos. This…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Data mining analysis of the PP2A cell cycle axis in mesothelioma patients
…2A (PP2A) network, we analyzed the gene expression of known PP2A inhibitors in mesothelioma patient samples. Our analysis disclosed a general overexpression of all PP2A-negative regulators in mesothelioma patients. Moreover, the expression of ANP32E and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
The Epidemiologic Characteristics of Malignant Mesothelioma Cases in Korea: Findings of the Asbestos Injury Relief System from 2011-2015
…resident registrations in order to investigate the dates of diagnosis and death. Asbestos exposure and patients' general characteristics were investigated through face-to-face interviews. The standardized incidence ratio was calculated as the number of observations…