299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 11 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
Parenchymal asbestosis due to primary asbestos exposure among ship-breaking workers: report of the first cases from Bangladesh
…among current workers in Bangladesh. They said their sample was small, biased and selected by the union. They also said exposure could not be measured and that workers moved between jobs, so different tasks could not…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Burden of Lung Cancer Attributable to Occupational Carcinogens from 1990 to 2019 and Projections until 2044 in China
…of deaths in 2044 was 111,195 higher than in 1990, mainly because of population aging. The authors concluded the absolute burden will keep rising. They noted the exposure data came mainly from European Union countries.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1976
Asbestos The TLV Approach
…2 in 2066 without one. Asked about June to December 1972, 171 union insulators reported seeing a dust count and 4956 did not. The author concluded that the TLV approach to carcinogens is of limited effectiveness.
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Medical study · Medical research · 1979
Asbestos Legislation
…Jeffrey Smith. The author disputed a Science article's statement that the Johns-Manville Corporation drafted the bill. The author wrote that a member of the author's staff drafted it with a lawyer for the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Non-malignant occupational respiratory diseases in Germany in comparison with those of other countries
…in bakeries, the health care sector, farming, and mining. Furthermore, there is a urgent need for harmonization of recognition and compensation systems for occupational diseases as well as of respective preventive strategies within the European Union.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
History of asbestos related disease
…workers, other users of asbestos products and people living near factories, and that stricter British and US rules and a European Union ban on chrysotile followed. It reported that whether SV40 virus causes mesothelioma remained unclear…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2004
Asbestos dispatches
…use, industry promotion in India, and Canada's role in blocking international listing of chrysotile. It reported national bans in 13 of 15 European Union states and in Australia, and a Japanese order, effective October 2004…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2002
Translating evidence about occupational conditions into strategies for prevention
…presented the process as three linked boxes: sources of evidence (toxicology, epidemiology, occupational medicine, occupational hygiene, unions and workers), scientific, social and economic influencing factors, and prevention strategies. Eight case studies illustrated the process: vinyl chloride…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Asbestos diseases and compensation
…was reasonably secure and to encourage eligible patients to claim benefit. Patients considering legal action should be referred to a trade union or solicitor rather than told to sue. Patients with pleural plaques should be reassured…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1988
Malignant mesothelioma
…the late 1950s, after he arrived in Australia. The Electrical Trades Union prepared a workers' compensation claim and argued that the statute of limitations should be waived on humanitarian grounds. The claim succeeded, with a settlement…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Comparative toxicities of different forms of asbestos in a cell culture assay
Three forms of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos, amosite, crocidolite, and chrysotile, were assayed for their cytotoxicity (inhibition of colony formation) in cell culture. Using embryonic human intestine-derived (I-407) and adult rat…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2007
Exposure of UK industrial plumbers to asbestos, Part II: Awareness and responses of plumbers to working with asbestos during a survey in parallel with personal sampling
Throughout the European Union, millions tonnes of asbestos were used in the manufacture of products for building and for industrial installations. Today, in the UK, it is estimated that over half a million non-domestic premises…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Iron topochemistry and surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos: relations with in vitro toxicity
Chemical reactivity of asbestos tremolite from Italy and USA localities and Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) crocidolite was studied in relation to Fe content, oxidation state, and structural coordination. Direct correlation between amount of Fe…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1987
Physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos in the hamster lung
The physical and microchemical alterations of chrysotile and amosite asbestos (Union International Contre le Cancer standard samples) in the hamster lung and in vitro following acid treatments were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and x…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Report of the Advisory Committee on Asbestos Cancers to the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer
In 1964 the Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union against Cancer (UICC) set up a working group on asbestos and cancer and later issued a Report and Recommendations (1965). A further meeting was held at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Rare Tumours: A Systematic Review
Rare cancers, as defined by the European Union, occur in fewer than 15 out of 100,000 people each year. The International Rare Cancer Consortium defines rare cancer incidence as less than six per 100,000…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1985
Kinetics of deposition and clearance of inhaled mineral dusts during chronic exposure
New inhalation studies have been carried out with rats exposed to UICC (Union International Contre le Cancer) amosite asbestos, with the main aim of further elucidating the factors the influence the accumulation of dust in the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1996
Nitric oxide (NO) synthase activity in the lung and NO synthesis in alveolar macrophages of rats increased on exposure to asbestos
We examined whether the lung of rats induced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) on instillation of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer (UICC) asbestos into the trachea, and whether alveolar macrophages (M phi s) of rats increased synthesis…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2005
Predictions of mortality from pleural mesothelioma in Italy: a model based on asbestos consumption figures supports results from age-period-cohort models
Italy was the second main asbestos producer in Europe, after the Soviet Union, until the end of the 1980s, and raw asbestos was imported on a large scale until 1992. The Italian pattern of asbestos consumption…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1997
Proportionate mortality among unionized construction ironworkers
This report presents the results of proportionate mortality ratios (PMR) and proportionate cancer mortality ratios (PCMR) among 13,301 members of the International Union of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Ironworkers who had been members for a…