434 results for “General Electric”, page 10 of 22
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Histological characteristics of mesothelioma associated with asbestos
…10 of them found among 307 consecutive deaths. Seven came from 26 consecutive asbestosis cases among 2500 autopsies at Middlesex General and Barnert Memorial Hospitals. Twelve came from 45 Armed Forces Institute of Pathology cases checked…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos disease in United States shipyards
…based on only 13 shipyard asbestosis deaths. Overall, shipyard insulators' mortality did not differ substantially from that of insulators in general. Second, in 1975 and 1976 the authors X-rayed 1000 volunteer workers at a shipyard…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1969
Asbestos and health in 1969
…found the contention that crocidolite itself causes mesothelioma difficult to accept. The author also argued that ferruginous bodies in the general public had not been proved to be asbestos, and named talc as another fiber source…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-related disease
…to the author, the study prompted the United States surgeon general to alert more than half a million physicians about probable asbestos-related disease in people employed in shipbuilding during World War II. The letter stated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Pleural effusion during bromocriptine exposure in two patients with pre-existing asbestos pleural plaques: a relationship?
…also received steroids, had normal lung function 12 months after he first presented. The second man's general symptoms eased quickly, but his chest X-ray and lung function did not improve substantially. The authors concluded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Mechanisms of asbestos-induced carcinogenesis
…mesothelioma, genetic changes found in human mesothelioma, and animal models. The review described a general consensus that the risk of mesothelioma and lung cancer is greatest with crocidolite, less with amosite, and apparently less with chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Insurance, reinsurance and underwriting names' liability for asbestos-related diseases
…cited earlier work by Hammond (1966), which reported a lung cancer risk 53 times the general population's level for people with both persistent asbestos exposure and smoking. It then described US court rulings and litigation…
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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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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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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 27, 1990
Chevron USA v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1990)
…mesothelioma was not an outgrowth of the asbestosis. It also held that a 1986 California Supreme Court case, General Foundry, did not require a single date of injury. It denied the family's request for attorney…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 15, 1990
Uram v. Abex Corp. (1990)
…run long before 1987. For Virginia's consortium claim, the court applied the general one-year statute with a discovery rule. It found she should likewise have suspected the cause in 1976, so her claim was…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Management of malignant pleural mesothelioma - part 3 : Data from the Austrian Mesothelioma Interest Group (AMIG) database
…had earlier-stage disease, were in better general condition and more often had epithelioid tumors. When these factors were analyzed together, only general condition (Karnofsky index) and tumor subtype remained statistically significant. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Silicosis and asbestosis: diagnosis, prevention and treatment
…stated that effective therapy for disabling asbestosis had not been demonstrated. American experience had not shown more lung cancer in recognized asbestosis cases than in the general population, although British experience suggested a possible causal relationship…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
Modelling prevalence and incidence of fibrosis and pleural plaques in asbestos-exposed populations for screening and follow-up: a cross-sectional study
…not duration, should be included in high-risk definitions for screening. They also concluded that short-interval CT follow-up for plaques seemed not warranted. They noted the volunteers were not representative of the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos-associated neoplasms of B cell lineage
…combined incidence of these two cancers was 7.7 per cent. The authors said this appeared much greater than in the general South African population, but that the number of patients was too small for epidemiologic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Historical background to the asbestos problem
…with the Cape asbestos field, and Doll's 1955 finding that men employed 20 or more years at a large asbestos works had 10 times the general population's lung cancer risk. The authors concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
RE: Asbestos in brakes: exposure and risk of disease
…cannot be defended. The letter discloses that the author has served as an expert witness in friction brake litigation, with the author's employer receiving funding for this work from Ford, General Motors and Daimler Chrysler.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Effects of tobacco smoking on findings in chest computed tomography among asbestos-exposed workers
…The authors concluded that CT can detect changes due to smoking at an early stage. They noted that there were only 18 never-smokers and that the results cannot be applied directly to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1968
Occupational and "non-occupational" asbestosis in Finland
…peritoneal tumors were not more frequent in the calcification area than in other rural east Finland. The author said the hazard could be controlled, but that too little was known about danger to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Asbestos-related lung cancer mortality in Piedmont, Italy
…The association held without Casale Monferrato or without Turin. The authors suggested that asbestos effects on lung cancer known from occupational studies are also observable in the general population. Smoking and individual case data were unavailable.