74 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 4
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Ending asbestos poisoning: global advocacy from a survivor's view
…being clear of the disease since then. The author stated that the General Electric Company had put undisclosed asbestos in a power plant where the author worked in the 1970s, and reported proving that case in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Lung cancer and exposure to man-made vitreous fibers: results from a pooled case-control study in Germany
…The case series consisted of 3498 males who were histologically or cytologically verified primary lung cancer cases. 3541 male population controls were drawn at random from the general population and matched to cases by sex, age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Fiber size and number in workers exposed to processed chrysotile asbestos, chrysotile miners, and the general population
…chrysotile ore, 20 long-term chrysotile miners, and 20 members of the general population (controls). Significantly greater amounts of both chrysotile and tremolite were found in processed-ore workers and miners than in controls. On average…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma in an urban hospital: clinical spectrum and trend in incidence over time
This retrospective review covered coded mesothelioma patients at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1973 through 1986. Of 75 cases, 64 were diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma; four peritoneal and seven benign fibrous cases were not analyzed. Of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Tissue burden of asbestos in nonoccupationally exposed individuals from east Texas
The potential for asbestos exposure among members of the general population is appreciable, considering its widespread use in many products. This study examined tissue burden of asbestos in such a population. A group of 33 individuals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos in strange places: two case reports of mesothelioma among merchant seamen
The authors described two cases of malignant pleural mesothelioma in Greek merchant seamen. Both came from a mesothelioma registry in Greece and were seen at Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens. The first was a 71-year-old…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Dust levels in an asbestos-cement factory: problem solving
…Isasbest Ltd., an asbestos-cement pipe and sheet factory in Nahariya, Israel, written by the company's general manager. The plant employed approximately 340 workers, and its products averaged 90% cement and 10% asbestos. The article…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Mortality among shipbreaking workers in Taiwan--a retrospective cohort study from 1985 to 2008
…from 1985 to 2008. The mortality ratios-standardized for age and calendar years-(SMRs) for various causes of deaths were calculated with reference to the general population of Taiwan. Among men workers, a statistically significant increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Collegium Ramazzini statement on the Tokyo Declaration banning asbestos
…short editorial, not a research study. It was written by the President and Secretary General of the Collegium Ramazzini and published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. It reported that in November 2004, participants in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Maintenance work and asbestos-related cancers in the refinery and petrochemical sector
…are at increased risk of lung cancer. The author noted that refinery and petrochemical workers overall have lower lung cancer rates than the general population, with one review reporting lung cancer mortality at 77% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Mortality of a cohort of men in a silicosis register: further evidence of an association with lung cancer
…on a Hong Kong silicosis compensation register from July 1980 through 1986, comparing deaths with those expected in Hong Kong's general male population. They had excluded 68 workers thought to have had past or concomitant…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Comparison of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards and German Berufsgenossenschaften Guidelines for Preventive Occupational Health Examinations
…compared the medical examination requirements in U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) general industry standards with those in the German Berufsgenossenschaften guidelines for preventive occupational health examinations. They used a previously published method that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Re: Call for an International Ban on Asbestos
…not a research study. The author, Secretary General of the Collegium Ramazzini, supported the Collegium's Call for an International Ban on Asbestos. The author stated that asbestos harm is proven but underestimated in the scientific…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Hospitalization in Winnipeg, Canada due to occupational disease: a pilot study
…For 4.4% (13/297) of male admissions to the general medical wards from the emergency room occupational factors may have played a role in the development of medical conditions which led to admission or to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Compensation of pleural mesothelioma in France: data from the French National Mesothelioma Surveillance Programme
…the Compensation Fund for Asbestos Victims (FIVA) were analyzed. Approximately 30% of subjects presenting with pleural mesothelioma, affiliated to the General National Health Insurance fund, neither sought recognition as an OD nor claimed for FIVA compensation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina
…rate ratios (SRRs) were calculated to compare mortality rates between workers ever employed vs never employed in the pot room. All-cause mortality among Badin workers was lower than in the general population (SMR: 0.81…
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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 · 2020
Re Ferrante et al (2020). Mortality and mesothelioma incidence among chrysotile asbestos miners in Balangero, Italy: A cohort study
…incomplete, explanation. Lung cancer SMRs versus the general population were almost identical: 1.14 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.55) and 1.16 (0.87 to 1.52). By cumulative exposure (fiber/mL-years), Pira…
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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 · 2022
Public health risks from asbestos cement roofing
…cement plants, and that another cited study did not control for confounders. The authors concluded it is biologically plausible that asbestos roofing can cause asbestos-related disease in the general public. Citing the precautionary principle, they…