442 results for “General Electric”, page 9 of 23
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · November 20, 2019
Temperino v. Amchem Prods. (2019)
…cigarettes a day for about 37 years. Honda moved for summary judgment, arguing plaintiff could not prove general or specific causation. Several other defendants asked the court to bar plaintiff's medical experts and, if successful…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · December 14, 1983
Skip Fordyce, Inc. v. Workers'comp. Appeals BD. (1983)
…and multiple-level hearsay from a doctor's report, a general pamphlet and an unsupported 'admission' that brake linings contain asbestos does not supply it. Medical opinions based on statistical studies can be substantial evidence of…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit · June 2, 1993
Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (1993)
…had worked at the plant for sixteen to twenty-three years between 1956 and 1979. Most were general tireworkers who did not handle the products. The complaint and the doctors' testimony said the workers had asbestosis…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 29, 2019
Albin v. Mannington Mills (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2019)
…make a prima facie showing that its product did not contribute to the illness, and conflicting expert affidavits on general and specific causation raise fact issues for trial. Causation; Expert Testimony Worksites: House on Beach Street…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Pleural mesothelioma in Poland: Spatial analysis of malignant mesothelioma prevalence in the period 1999-2013
…Geostatistical analysis shows that strong spatial clustering of MM incidence (referring to the general population as well as females and males separately) during the period 1999-2013 in the administrative units of Poland (provinces and counties…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Increased Risk of Gastric Cancer in Asbestos-Exposed Workers: A Retrospective Cohort Study Based on Taiwan Cancer Registry 1980-2015
…the period 1980-2015. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for cancer were computed for the whole cohort using reference rates of the general population, and also reference labor population. Compared with the general population, SIR of the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
MesoTRAP: a feasibility study that includes a pilot clinical trial comparing video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy decortication with indwelling pleural catheter in patients with trapped lung due to malignant pleural mesothelioma designed to address recruitment and randomisation uncertainties and sample size requirements for a phase III trial
…Another is video-assisted thoracoscopic partial pleurectomy/decortication (VAT-PD). Performed under general anaesthesia, VAT-PD permits surgical removal of the rind of tumour from the visceral pleura thereby allowing the lung to fully re-expand…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Re Ferrante et al (2020). Mortality and mesothelioma incidence among chrysotile asbestos miners in Balangero, Italy: A cohort study
…incomplete, explanation. Lung cancer SMRs versus the general population were almost identical: 1.14 (95% CI 0.81 to 1.55) and 1.16 (0.87 to 1.52). By cumulative exposure (fiber/mL-years), Pira…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Anthophyllite asbestos: state of the science review
…a standardized incidence ratio of 67 (95% CI 18 to 172) for mesothelioma in heavily exposed men who had worked at least 3 months, compared with the eastern Finland general population. In one reviewed rat study…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Risk factors for malignant mesothelioma in people with no known exposure to asbestos
…histories. Over 9 years, 38 cases and 134 hospital controls with conditions unrelated to asbestos (65 with other cancers, 69 with general medical conditions) were interviewed about their histories. An industrial hygienist, unaware of diagnoses, coded…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Impact of low-dose computed tomography screening on lung cancer mortality among asbestos-exposed workers
…deaths from all cancers or from malignant neoplasm of the pleura. Deaths from pleural cancer were higher than in the general population in both groups. The authors concluded that taking part in screening was associated with…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Meta-Analysis of the Association between Asbestos Exposure and Esophageal Cancer
…ranges below are also 95% intervals). The authors described this as exposed participants being 1.28 times more likely to die from esophageal cancer than the general population. The pooled SMR was significantly raised for chrysotile…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Commentary: Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risk
…used the statistical relationship between the average lung burden of asbestos particles and mesothelioma death rates in the general population to predict rates in younger people who began work after asbestos was no longer in use…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Germline mutations in DNA repair genes predispose asbestos-exposed patients to malignant pleural mesothelioma
…lifetime asbestos exposure had been estimated from interviews about exposure at work, at home and in the general environment. The authors sequenced 94 cancer-related genes from blood samples and compared the results with 96 Italian…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Single-institution experience of intensity-modulated radiotherapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma at University of Catania
…Seven patients completed radiotherapy. One stopped early when their general condition worsened and died two months later from local spread of the disease. At a median follow-up of 16 months (range 6 to 23 months…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Occupational asbestos exposure and urinary bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
…observed no difference in the subgroup analysis for countries and no direct publication bias evidence. There is evidence that workers with occupational asbestos exposure have a bladder cancer incidence and mortality similar to the general population.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Mortality in a cohort of asbestos-exposed workers undergoing health surveillance
…to asbestos, enrolled in a PHSP in FVG between the early 1990s and 2008, with that of the general population of FVG and Italy. Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR), with 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI), for all…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2024
Asbestos and disease - a public health success story?
…Swedish study showed that the general ban and other measures have decreased the risk of malignancies due to occupational exposure. The effect of the bans on adverse effects in the general population has yet to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Cancer mortality in a surveillance cohort of German males formerly exposed to asbestos
…been exposed to chrysotile. Through April 30, 2007, 128 men died. Compared with German men in general, overall deaths were lower than expected (SMR 0.59, 95% CI 0.49-0.70). However, 15 men died…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1983
Diseases associated with asbestos exposure. Diagnostic perspectives in forensic pathology
…from highest to lowest risk: direct occupational, indirect occupational, neighborhood, and household and family. They said the risk from general environmental exposure was not known. They described pleural effusions, pleural plaques, asbestosis, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma…