7 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Saving the asbestos industry, 1960 to 2006
…million in sponsorship by 1999. Citing documents from a Texas court case, the article reported that Owens-Illinois made regular payments to Wagner from 1986, probably exceeding $300,000 in total. During this period Wagner's…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Asbestosis among electricians
This cross-sectional study examined 38 of 39 eligible union electricians who had worked on renovating a specific building in May 1985, when asbestos exposure was documented. Exact exposure values were unknown, so the authors used years worked as an…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1951
Carcinoma and asbestosis of the lung; report of a case
This article reports a single case. The patient, a 39-year-old man, had been a ship's steward for five years and before that had kept a greengrocery business for fifteen years. Twenty years earlier he had worked for twelve months in an asbestos…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1965
Mesothelial tumors and exposure to asbestos dust
The author, a hospital pathologist in Liverpool, England, re-examined 30 cases of cancer of the chest or abdominal lining from Liverpool and the Merseyside area, covering ten years from 1953. All had at some point been suggested to be diffuse…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1964
Diffuse mesothelioma and exposure to asbestos dust in the Merseyside area
This 1964 report described 17 people with diffuse mesothelioma (16 pleural, one peritoneal) in Merseyside, England. Most cases came from Liverpool cancer and thoracic surgery records for 1955 to 1963. The author re-examined tissue, took work…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma and asbestos exposure
This case series, continuing an earlier one by Owen, covered 52 people with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma diagnosed between 1955 and 1970 at three Merseyside hospitals in England. Industrial histories confirmed asbestos exposure in 80% of…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Chemo-physical properties of asbestos bodies in human lung tissues studied at the nano-scale by non-invasive, label free x-ray imaging and spectroscopic techniques
…Fe content in the ABs was higher than that possibly contained in chrysotile and crocidolite. This finding opens two opposite scenarios, the first with Fe coming from the fiber bulk and concentrating on the surface as…