110 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 6
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Letter to the Editor regarding Bullock 2020
…it added, Hamilton wrote to General Electric's president recommending better dust control and chest X-rays of the longest-exposed workers. They cited a 1935 Pennsylvania state report listing 45 UK references and over 30…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos Exposure and Malignant Mesothelioma in Construction Workers-Epidemiological Remarks by the Italian National Mesothelioma Registry (ReNaM)
…8% to 23.9%. Among 2310 cases exposed only in construction, most exposures were in general building construction, with others in plumbing and electrical installation. Cases occurred across the whole country. The authors concluded that a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Mongolia: Failure of Total Banning of Asbestos
…After the banning of asbestos, thermal power plants told the government that they could not produce electricity without insulation of AMCs and substitution materials were economically not feasible. Due to pressure from the energy sector and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Awareness, knowledge and training gaps regarding asbestos among General Practitioners: a pilot study
General Practitioners (GPs) have good knowledge of health status and sociocultural backgrounds of their patients, thus could be decisive in early detection of cases of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). In this cross-sectional pilot study, we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Knowledge and awareness of asbestos risk among General Practitioners: Validation of a questionnaire in an area with a high incidence of asbestos-related diseases
Given the critical role of general practitioners (GPs) in the early diagnosis and management of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs), and the significant history of asbestos fibres pollution in Alessandria Local Health Authority (ASL AL), this project…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
The Brazilian System for Monitoring Workers and General Population Exposed to Asbestos: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities for Workers' Health Surveillance
…especially in lower-income countries. This paper aims to present the recently developed Brazilian system for monitoring workers and general population exposed to asbestos (Datamianto), and to discuss the main challenges and opportunities for workers' health…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
The asbestos-asbestosis exposure-response relationship: a cohort study of the general working population
…observed increasing risk with increasing cumulative exposure in the inception population. This study found exposure-response relations between cumulative asbestos exposure and incident asbestosis in the Danish general working population with mainly low-level exposed occupations…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Lung Cancer and Pleural Mesothelioma Risk Assessment for the General Population Exposed to Asbestos in Different Regions of Tehran, Iran
This study did not count actual cases of disease. It used air-monitoring results to estimate cancer risk for the general population of Tehran, Iran. The authors took yearly average outdoor asbestos fiber concentrations for 2011…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Commentary: SARS-CoV-2 and Asbestos Exposure: Can Our Experience With Mesothelioma Patients Help Us Understand the Psychological Consequences of COVID-19 and Develop Interventions?
This was a general commentary, an opinion piece, responding to a 2020 article by Granieri and colleagues that had compared COVID-19 with malignant mesothelioma (MM). It reported no new data and studied no people. The…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Malignant pleural mesothelioma in a patient with pneumothorax: A cumbersome subtype both clinically and pathologically
This case report from Takatsuki General Hospital, Japan, described one patient whose malignant pleural mesothelioma the authors found very hard to diagnose. A 62-year-old woman had undergone surgery for recurrent pneumothorax (collapsed lung) on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Mediastinal and pleuropulmonary myeloid sarcoma with HBME1 and podoplanin expression. A diagnostic pitfall
This letter to the editor reported a single case: a 60-year-old man with general symptoms, shortness of breath and fluid around the lung (pleural effusion). A scan showed an 11 cm mass in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Usefulness of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase and BRCA-associated protein 1 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in effusion cytology specimens
This retrospective study, using cases from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, asked whether a laboratory stain for a protein called MTAP helps tell malignant mesothelioma apart from harmless (reactive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Synchronous Jejunal Sarcomatoid Carcinoma and Incidentally Associated Localized Peritoneal Malignant Mesothelioma
This case report described one 67-year-old Japanese man treated at Shimada General Medical Center in Japan. He had a history of asbestos exposure in plumbing work 30 years earlier. The article did not name…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
No causal association between pneumoconiosis and three inflammatory immune diseases: a Mendelian randomization study
…condition causes another. The authors used published summary-level genetic data from people of European origin. They tested whether pneumoconiosis in general, and separately 'pneumoconiosis due to asbestos and other mineral fibers' (235 cases, 216,866…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Experiences of healthcare professionals with support for mesothelioma patients and their relatives: Identified gaps and improvements for care
…professionals and other stakeholders, including medical oncologists, a psychologist, a general practitioner and patient organisation representatives, about psychosocial support and palliative care for mesothelioma patients and their relatives. One participant was from abroad. Interviews took place…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Understanding clinical decision-making in mesothelioma care: a mixed methods study
…for malignant pleural mesothelioma. It was carried out at three National Health Service trusts in South England between March 2019 and March 2021: one tertiary cancer centre and two district general hospitals. The authors reviewed care…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma mortality among atomic veterans
…ground nuclear weapons test series. Deaths through 2010 were compared with those expected from U.S. general population rates. Enlisted sailors' exposure was judged from Navy job titles ("ratings") and pay grades; officers were classed by…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Malignant mesothelioma metastatic to the oral region and latest topics (Review)
…review by authors from Osaka Dental University in Japan. It covered malignant mesothelioma in general and focused on cases where the cancer had spread (metastasised) to the mouth. The authors searched the PubMed database and the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Timely diagnosis of primary pericardial mesothelioma
This was a brief case report, published as an image article, by authors at Cheng Hsin General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. It described one 66-year-old man with shortness of breath and swelling of both…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Standardized Incidence Ratio and Standardized Mortality Ratio of Malignant Mesothelioma in a Worker Cohort Using Employment Insurance Database in Korea
…calculated using the indirect standardization method. There were 641 malignant mesotheliomas that occurred; the SIR was significantly higher than the general population (men 1.36, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.24-1.48, women 1.44…