985 results for “General Electric”, page 40 of 50
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Medical study · Medical research · 1978
Malignant mesothelioma of the pleura in Barrow-in-Furness
…lungs has been measured in the last 20 cases, in 18 of whom it was found to be substantially greater than the accepted levels for the general population. In a small number studied by electron microscopy…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Cryptococcus pneumonia presenting in an immunocompetent host with pulmonary asbestosis: a case report
…follow up, she had marked improvement in her general condition along with a diminution of the lower lobe lung mass. We report a clinical and radiological improvement in a patient treated for cryptococcal pneumonia. Asbestos exposure…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Overview of asbestos issues in Korea
…ban of its use, previously applied asbestos still causes many problems. A series of asbestos-related events that recently occurred in Korea have caused the general public to become concerned about asbestos. Therefore, it is necessary…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
The reliability of measures of amphibole fiber concentration in water
…However, the relative variability among laboratories was reasonably uniform. There was general agreement that water from some sites was consistently high in concentrations of amphibole fibers, while other sites were consistently low. We conclude that comparisons…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with oxaliplatin for peritoneal mesothelioma: preliminary results and survival analysis
…multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma from August 2004 to October 2012 was analyzed. Patients with sarcomatoid or biphasic peritoneal mesothelioma were not included due to general poor prognosis. Treatment consisted in CRS and HIPEC-OX (460 mg/m…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Cancer mortality and exposure to crocidolite
…a further 800 f/ml shorter than 5 µm. Samples from the general area outside the plant showed up to 2 f/ml longer than 5 µm. Rogers noted that de Klerk et al had applied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
The microbial and danger signals that activate Nod-like receptors
…may be perceived similarly by host recognition systems. Gaining insight into the function of NLR proteins in general will impact considerably on our understanding of the mechanisms underlying immunity to infection, adjuvanticity and auto-inflammatory disorders…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Proportionate mortality among US shoeworkers, 1966-1977
…None of the shoeworker deaths were attributed to nasal cancer, whereas 2.2 were expected on the basis of general population data. Mortality from leukemia and cancer of the urinary bladder was not unusual in either…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos and the pleura: a review
…the evidence indicated plaques do not increase cancer risk, though this was far from a universal view. They reported general agreement that diffuse pleural thickening can cause significant restrictive ventilatory impairment. For mesothelioma, they reviewed incidence…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Parenchymal and pleural fibrosis in construction workers
…male population from another investigation indicates that the frequency of lung fibrosis (ILO greater than or equal to 1/1) is at least two times higher among the examined construction workers than among the general population…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Ionizing radiation: a risk factor for mesothelioma
…but not all, epidemiology studies (particularly those of Thorotrast- and radiation-treated patients). Given the low mesothelioma rate in the general population, the consistently increased risk among these radiation-exposed individuals is noteworthy. Many studies were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Smoking intervention in subjects at risk of asbestos-related lung cancer
…and for a shorter period, than had the continuing smokers. Counseling by a general physician increased successful quitting threefold, compared to counseling by a physician in a specialized institution. These results suggest a potential for smoking…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Predictions of mortality from mesothelial tumours in asbestos factory workers
…mortality and somewhat higher for women. The highest number of deaths from mesothelial tumours will occur during the 1980s, thereafter the numbers will decline because of the decreasing size of the cohort resulting from general mortality.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
What every surgeon should know regarding asbestos-related disease
…no satisfactory treatment. Prevention is the only practical way. In spite of the fact that the general public is invariably exposed to small amounts of the material, asbestos is not a public health problem. Exemptions are…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Exposure to non-arsenic pesticides is associated with lymphoma among farmers in Spain
…with all other occupations. Farmers were analysed according to the type of farming job performed: crop farming, animal farming, and general farming. Occupational exposure was summarised into 15 main categories: organic dust, radiation, contact with animals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
The epidemiology of renal cell carcinoma
…analgesics have been convincingly linked with renal cell cancer. With respect to diet a general protective effect of fruit and vegetable consumption is the only consistently reported finding. For occupational factors the weight of the evidence…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Cytotoxicity study of rock wool by cell magnetometric evaluation
…of decay of cytotoxicity, was observed by cell magnetometry immediately postmagnetization in the group to which RW was added. In general, materials phagocytosed by macrophages are ingested into phagosomes and digested while migrating. This migration of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2009
Mortality from occupational exposure to relatively pure chrysotile: a 39-year study
…was attributed to cardiovascular diseases in 23 subjects and to liver cirrhosis in 1. Overall mortality rate was significantly lower than that of the Greek general population, standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was 0.71 (95% CI…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Student nurses' risk perceptions of home environmental hazards
…Students who identified hazards in their own homes were more likely to identify them as hazards in general and for their own state. These results fill a foundational knowledge gap by describing the risk perceptions of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Retrospective assessment of asbestos exposure--I. Case-control analysis in a study of lung cancer: efficiency of job-specific questionnaires and job exposure matrices
…the assessment obtained by the application of two job exposure matrices (JEM) to the job history. The study includes 391 incident male cases and the same number of controls from the general population, matched by sex…