442 results for “General Electric”, page 13 of 23
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Environmental and occupational risk factors for lung cancer
…cancer deaths among women in two chrysotile mining areas. It said the contribution of low-dose environmental asbestos to lung cancer in the general population is not known. The author concluded that lung cancer is highly…
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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.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Smoking, coal, asbestos, and the lungs
…asbestos levels and smoking would cut lung cancer in workers, that cutting smoking would have more effect in asbestos-exposed workers than in the general population, and that banning tobacco advertising would be a sensible next…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: Accuracy of CT Against Immunohistochemical Test Among the Mexican Population
…and 85.7 vs. 93.2 and 65.6%, respectively. CT is an easily accessible and useful tool that should be incorporated into the medical education of general physicians to improve MPM diagnosis of suspected cases.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Contribution of environmental fibers to respiratory cancer
…large. Using a KL of 0.01, the authors estimated fewer than 100 lung cancers and 100 mesotheliomas per year in the general population from past ambient exposures. They noted great uncertainty in these estimates. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Man-made mineral fibers and interstitial lung diseases
…obliterative bronchiolitis who prepared fiberglass with styrene resins. The author stated that human data on fiber persistence in the lung were too limited for general conclusions about all MMMFs. The author concluded that epidemiological and toxicological…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Epidemiology of Lung Cancer
…medical history, and occupational exposures, however there is not yet a risk prediction model currently recommended for general use. As lung cancer screening becomes more widespread, a validated model will be needed to better define risk…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1955
Mortality from lung cancer in asbestos workers
…was a specific industrial hazard of certain asbestos workers and that the average risk among men employed for 20 or more years has been of the order of 10 times that experienced by the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Factors associated with cancer distress in the Asbestos Post-Exposure Survey (APEXS)
…asbestos will develop a disease was also associated with distress. The authors concluded that exposed subjects showed more distress than earlier studies had described. They noted their volunteer comparison group may not represent the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Environmental exposure to asbestos: A factor in the rising rate of cancer in the industrialized world?
…exposure could not easily be discounted. The author still saw no reason to change the Lyon conference conclusion of no evidence of a risk to the general public at present. The author urged physicians to take…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Dose-response relationships for asbestos-related disease: implications for hygiene standards. Part II. Mortality
…first exposure and duration were shown, with gastrointestinal cancer and asbestosis set aside. The author concluded that occupational exposure must be rigorously monitored, but that risk to the general population is likely to be extremely low.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Analysis of asbestos fiber burden in lung tissue from mesothelioma patients
…those without, but the authors found the ranges too wide to predict asbestosis from fiber counts. The authors concluded that most patients had a confirmed asbestos burden above general population levels, often of mixed types. They…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Predictors of participant retention in two chemoprevention feasibility trials
…the placebo run-in. The most frequently reported reasons for becoming inactive during the pilot studies were general health issues and problems and symptoms that were seen as specific to the CARET vitamins. These findings suggest…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 7, 2022 · in the opinion
Adams v. Eagle, Inc. (2022)
"General causation is whether a substance is capable of causing a particular injury or condition in the general population, while specific causation is whether a substance caused a particular individual's injury."\[61\] Because of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Occupational life course and lung cancer risk in men. Findings from a socio-epidemiological analysis of job-changing histories in a case-control study
Psychosocial factors in general, and the social and psychological conditions of work and occupation in particular, have attracted little attention to the epidemiological investigation into the occupational-related causes of lung cancer. There is some evidence…
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Court case · Alabama Supreme Court · December 16, 2011 · in the opinion
Bradberry v. Carrier Corporation ET AL. (2011)
\[8\] An exception to the general rule that the automatic stay does not apply to solvent codefendants has been recognized in certain "unusual circumstances" that are not present in this case. See A.H. Robbins Co…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
The effect of smoking on the risk of lung cancer mortality for asbestos workers in Great Britain (1971-2005)
Workers in the asbestos industry tend to have high smoking rates compared to the general population. Both asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking are recognized risk factors for lung cancer mortality, but the exact nature of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Environmentally related diseases and the possibility of valuation of their social costs
The risks of the morbidity of the asbestos-related lung cancer was estimated in the general population of Poles as the result of increased exposure to asbestos fibers during the removal of asbestos-cement products and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1972
Current opinions on the asbestos cancer problem
This article was a synopsis of a recent review of epidemiological studies and a general summary by the same author, drawing on opinions expressed at the 1969 Pneumoconiosis Conference in Johannesburg. The author described international studies…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · February 19, 2020 · in the opinion
Roverano v. John Crane, Inc. (2020)
Indeed, I believe that if the General Assembly had intended to do the opposite within the contours of a "Fair Share Act" — i.e., to maintain a liability allocation regime for strict liability cases that was…