973 results for “General Electric”, page 23 of 49
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Current controversies regarding the role of asbestos exposure in the causation of malignant mesothelioma: the need for an evidence-based approach to develop medicolegal guidelines
…no new data. The authors described Bradford Hill's criteria for judging causation and criticized the 1997 Helsinki criteria as giving only very general and internally contradictory answers to questions raised in court. They then posed…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Respiratory illness in asbestos contaminated sites: the role of environmental exposure
…Plaques had a significant effect on forced vital capacity in males. Pleural abnormalities were less prevalent in the general population exposed after 1976. The editorial authors argued that exposure categories should consider distance from fibre sources…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Estimating exposures in the asphalt industry for an international epidemiological cohort study of cancer risk
…companies enrolled in the cohort, plus the Swedish asphalt paving industry in general. Most companies were engaged in road paving and asphalt mixing, but some also participated in general construction and roofing. Coal tar use was…
-
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…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Health effects of indoor pollutants
…Data were limited, applied mostly to schools and office buildings, and indicated that general public exposure there was apparently exceedingly low. Control by fixatives was judged probably better than removal. Synthetic fibers were described as much…
-
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…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Indoor air pollution: a public health perspective
…than 100 fibers per milliliter during disruptive contact maintenance to ceilings. They wrote that risks to the general public were unknown because exposure-effect data came only from occupational settings. Unless the material was extremely friable…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2003
Asbestos-induced apoptosis is protein kinase C delta-dependent
…dnPKC alpha. Activities of PKC alpha and PKC zeta increased after exposure to asbestos, but neither isoform migrated to mitochondria. A general inhibitor of PKCs, bisindolylmaleimide I, had no effect on asbestos-induced apoptosis. Hydrogen peroxide…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Valproate-doxorubicin: promising therapy for progressing mesothelioma. A phase II study
…patients (16%; 95% CI 3 to 25%) had a partial response. All seven were in good general condition (performance status 80 to 100), though statistical tests found no factor that significantly predicted response. The best disease…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Investigation of occupational and environmental causes of respiratory cancers (ICARE): a multicenter, population-based case-control study in France
…was linked to cancer risk. The study included 2926 people with lung cancer, 2415 with head and neck cancer and 3555 comparison subjects from the general population. Between 2001 and 2007, cases were identified with cancer…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1979
A study of the size distributions of airborne amosite fibres in the manufacture of asbestos insulation boards
…tasks such as bag opening, sawing and sanding, and in general areas. One filter of each pair was examined by optical phase contrast microscopy and the other by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Fibre length distributions did…
-
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…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Mesothelioma in the London area
…to see whether the link with asbestos held in an urban setting. The team used hospital ward notes, the patients' general practitioners, and home interviews with surviving relatives, mostly carried out by social worker Hilda Thompson…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Lung fibre burden in lung cancer cases employed in the rock and slag wool industry
…dry lung. Asbestos fibres were found in 16 cases in minor amounts, described by the authors as similar to general-population levels. Lung fibre levels did not follow estimated exposure to MMVF or asbestos, and age…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Absence of post-transcriptional RNA modifications of BCL10 in human malignant mesothelioma and colorectal cancer
…lines. SSCP revealed several different band shifts in these samples. The nucleotide changes observed in the cDNA samples were also seen in matched genomic DNA and corresponded to known polymorphisms in the general population. Thus, we…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Public health impact of the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest
…of whom were admitted to hospitals. Asbestos came up only as part of the hazardous-materials response: there was general concern about asbestos in the burned debris and in the air. County staff and the fire…