973 results for “General Electric”, page 24 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
No meeting of the minds on asbestos
…The other, called 'revisionist', held that chrysotile poses relatively little risk to the general public at usual exposure levels. The article cited 1970s studies indicating a smaller percentage of chrysotile-exposed workers dying of mesothelioma; the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Prognosis and prognostic factors of patients with mesothelioma: a population-based study
…more than 2 years, and less than 15% were alive at 3 years, against 90% of people of similar age and gender in the general Dutch population. After adjusting for other factors, worse survival was associated…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1989
An industrial hygienist's perspective on generic standards
…The author, an industrial hygienist, argued that 1990s workplace regulation should concentrate mainly on "generic" standards for toxic materials in general, while keeping a way to add substance-specific requirements where appropriate. The author pointed to…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Increased risk of lung cancer in pesticide-exposed male agricultural workers
…5 yr. The SMR (standardized mortality ratio) of 2.0 for lung cancer morbidity (mortality) in these pesticide-exposed subjects was significantly higher than that for the general male population of the German Democratic Republic. A…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Tobacco and asbestos: consistent treatment advocated
…smoking estimates based on 800 interviews were unstable, given only 7% to 10% mean differences in smoking between white male automotive workers and the white male general population. They also argued that the adjustment method might…
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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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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Pemetrexed re-challenge in pleural malignant mesothelioma: an option for a subset of patients initially treated with pemetrexed-platinum doublets in the first-line setting?
…results as background. As the editorial described it, the Ceresoli study included 32 patients in good general condition whose disease had not progressed for at least 3 months after first-line treatment. On re-treatment, 19%…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2013
Reply: No indication that mineral wool causes mesothelioma
…wrong population. According to the author, both cases and controls came from the French general population, and the two sets of cases (1987–1996 and 1998–2006) showed no significant differences in socioeconomic status. The author…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
A technical comparison of evaluating asbestos concentration by phase-contrast microscopy (PCM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) as illustrated from data generated from a case report
…333 asbestos fibers per gram of deparaffinized wet tissue. Both laboratories found asbestos bodies above the level the authors cite as the upper limit expected in the general population. The authors calculated that 97% of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Analysis of lung asbestos content
…In the author's laboratory the upper 95th percentile for the Vancouver general population was around 1 000 000 fibres each of chrysotile and tremolite and 10 000 fibres of amosite plus crocidolite per g of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
What is the potential of compensation funds for addressing COVID-related personal injury?
…related schemes, and Belgian and Dutch asbestos funds were cited as examples paying fixed amounts. The authors concluded that applying the fund model to general COVID-19 loss is potentially fraught with difficulty and unmanageable expense.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Survival in patients with malignant pleural effusion undergoing talc pleurodesis
…to 2.39; 222 trial patients). The authors concluded there is an association between successful pleurodesis and survival. They called the results by no means definitive and had no data on patients' general fitness (performance status).
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Loss of C/EBP-β LIP drives cisplatin resistance in malignant pleural mesothelioma
…of liver, kidney, heart or muscle toxicity. The authors called their patient data preliminary. With few patients and no comparison group given other treatments, they could not tell general prognosis apart from prediction of cisplatin response.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Biocompatibility and Carcinogenicity of Carbon Nanotubes as Biomaterials
…that nanotube carcinogenicity is caused by exposure of mesothelial tissue, and that medical use may be feasible if general safety and carcinogenicity tests give good results. They noted that nanotube types and doses vary between reports…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Invited Commentary
…at one center by one surgeon. The author concluded that age alone should not decide fitness for surgery. In the author's view, measures of general well-being and activity should stay central to surgical decisions.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Simian virus 40 may be associated with developing malignant pleural mesothelioma
…needs larger studies with more reliable detection methods. They noted several limitations: the small sample, possible false or missed results from the staining method, and no published data on SV40 levels in Vietnam's general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Malignant Diffuse Mesothelioma in Women: A Study of 354 Cases
… chrysotile was never the only fiber type. The authors concluded that peritoneal mesotheliomas in women, in general, are not likely to be caused by asbestos exposure. They noted that 95% of cases came from litigation and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Malignant Mesothelioma
…The findings it credits to named authors come from those separate articles, while its opening paragraph gave the editors' general overview of recent research. The authors concluded that the 19 articles might help reach the goal…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Absence of multiplicative interactions between occupational lung carcinogens and tobacco smoking: a systematic review involving asbestos, crystalline silica and diesel engine exhaust emissions
…The silica studies disagreed on the additive scale. The authors concluded that, in general, there is no multiplicative interaction between these exposures and smoking, and that the evidence was insufficient to conclude on the additive scale…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
What are the psychological effects of mesothelioma on patients and their carers? A scoping review
…et al.) reported that mesothelioma patients had the highest suicide risk of all cancer types in the first six months after diagnosis, 8.61-fold compared with the general population. No study explored carers' experience separately…