973 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 49
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Letter to the Editor regarding Bullock 2020
…it added, Hamilton wrote to General Electric's president recommending better dust control and chest X-rays of the longest-exposed workers. They cited a 1935 Pennsylvania state report listing 45 UK references and over 30…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Ending asbestos poisoning: global advocacy from a survivor's view
…being clear of the disease since then. The author stated that the General Electric Company had put undisclosed asbestos in a power plant where the author worked in the 1970s, and reported proving that case in…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Case report: peritoneal mesothelioma from asbestos in hairdryers
…a blow dryer 1 to 2 feet from her face. She reported using only asbestos-containing hairdryer models (Conair, General Electric, Gillette) from 1976 to 1982. The article lists chrysotile as a keyword but does not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Rheumatoid pneumoconiosis in association with asbestosis
…case report about one man. He was a 49-year-old electric arc-welder of 20 years, admitted to Maryland General Hospital with cough and mild shortness of breath on exertion. His chest X-ray showed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
The analysis of lagging materials for asbestos: CEGB procedures
This article, by an author from the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB), described how the Board sampled and analysed thermal insulation (lagging) in its power stations for asbestos, and reviewed the analytical methods it used. It…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
Risk of cancer among Danish utility workers--a nationwide cohort study
…with 2,825 expected, yielding a small but significantly increased risk of 1.06 (95% confidence interval 1.03-1.10) among the utility workers in comparison with the general population. No excess was observed for…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Mesothelioma of the tunica vaginalis testis with possible occupational asbestos exposure
…a man with possible occupational asbestos exposure. A 45-year-old white man who had worked in an electrical power plant developed a painless mass in the right testicle. He was first treated for presumed epididymitis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Surveillance of Australian workplace Based Respiratory Events (SABRE) in New South Wales
…to December 2008). Every 2 months, participating occupational physicians, respiratory physicians and general practitioners (accredited by the NSW WorkCover Authority) reported new cases of occupational lung disease seen in their practices. Data collected include gender, age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Asbestos: some nonradiological aspects
…types. It listed exposure sources including mining, insulation work, ship-breaking, demolition, electricians near laggers, and air pollution from brake linings. It stated that any type can cause asbestosis, which was becoming rare. Citing Doll (1965)…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Asbestos Exposure and Malignant Mesothelioma in Construction Workers-Epidemiological Remarks by the Italian National Mesothelioma Registry (ReNaM)
…8% to 23.9%. Among 2310 cases exposed only in construction, most exposures were in general building construction, with others in plumbing and electrical installation. Cases occurred across the whole country. The authors concluded that a…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Does occupational exposure to brown coal dust cause a decline in lung function?
…time windows. This study was conducted over a period of 14 years from 1980 to 1994 and used data collected by the State Electricity Commission (SEC) Lung Function Unit for an asbestos surveillance programme. The subjects…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Measurement of asbestos fibre concentrations in fluid of repeated bro-choalveolar lavages of exposed workers
…Uncertainties related in general to lung residues and in particular to mineralogical analysis of BALF (mainly due to the high coefficient of variation (CV) at low fibre concentrations and the results of the statistical analysis on…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2000
Lung cancer and exposure to man-made vitreous fibers: results from a pooled case-control study in Germany
…The case series consisted of 3498 males who were histologically or cytologically verified primary lung cancer cases. 3541 male population controls were drawn at random from the general population and matched to cases by sex, age…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
European Code against Cancer 4th Edition: Environment, occupation and cancer
…throughout life to a wide range of environmental and occupational pollutants from different sources at home, in the workplace or in the general environment - exposures that normally cannot be directly controlled by the individual. Several chemicals…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Occupation and work-related ill-health in UK construction workers
…frequencies of reported causal exposures or tasks reported by clinical specialists, occupational physicians and general practitioners. We found significantly increased incidence of WRI compared with other workers in the same major Standard Occupational Classification, i.e…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Quality assessment and public health status of harvested rainwater in a peri-urban community in Edo State of Nigeria
…where there is limited or scarcity of water distribution system. However, contamination of roof-harvested rainwater is of immense concern to the general public health. Therefore, this study was initiated to assess the levels of physicochemical…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Mongolia: Failure of Total Banning of Asbestos
…After the banning of asbestos, thermal power plants told the government that they could not produce electricity without insulation of AMCs and substitution materials were economically not feasible. Due to pressure from the energy sector and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Awareness, knowledge and training gaps regarding asbestos among General Practitioners: a pilot study
General Practitioners (GPs) have good knowledge of health status and sociocultural backgrounds of their patients, thus could be decisive in early detection of cases of asbestos-related diseases (ARDs). In this cross-sectional pilot study, we…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1998
General thoracic surgery
This article was a review by a single author of recently published work in general thoracic surgery. It was not a new study. It covered lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, lung volume reduction surgery, video-assisted thoracic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Emergency diagnosis of cancer and previous general practice consultations: insights from linked patient survey data
This study re-analysed the 2010 English Cancer Patient Experience Survey, linked to records of each patient's diagnostic route. It included 4647 responders whose cancer, one of 18 types including mesothelioma, was diagnosed as an emergency. It used…