299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 14 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
A bibliometric analysis of scientific production in mesothelioma research
…cancer literature (123.5%). In these two decades, 2559 articles with IF were published: 46.4% came from the European Union (EU) (the UK, Italy and France ranking at the top), and 36.2% from the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282
…refinery. They also noted that Selikoff et al. (1979) reported many such cases among union contract workers, who had the heaviest asbestos exposures but were not included in company studies. The authors concluded that there can…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
An analysis of violations of Osha's (1987) occupational exposure to benzene standard
…government entities), given that the OSH Act primarily covers private sector employers. More violations have also been issued during inspections where union representation was present and from complaint-driven (vs. planned or other) inspections, which is…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Mortality among unionized construction plasterers and cement masons
…cement masons who entered the union after 1950. The present study suggests that plasterers and cement masons still have elevated risks for certain diseases, especially lung and stomach cancer. Therefore, union members currently living should be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2006
Residential proximity to naturally occurring asbestos: health risk or ecologic fallacy?
…lifetime residential history was a limitation. They reported an unpublished analysis showing no differential movement of former asbestos union members from the San Francisco Bay Area to counties with more NOA. They also suggested a prospective…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2001
Synthetic vitreous fibers: a review of toxicology research and its impact on hazard classification
…regulation of SVFs. For a nonhazardous classification, legislation recently passed by the European Union requires a respirable insulation wool to have a low lung-biopersistence or be noncarcinogenic in laboratory rats. U.S. fiberglass and mineral…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Efficacy and safety of an intensified schedule of tremelimumab for chemotherapy-resistant malignant mesothelioma: an open-label, single-arm, phase 2 study
…response (complete or partial), assessed in all patients who received at least one dose of the study drug. This study is registered with the European Union Clinical Trials Register, number 2012-002762-12, and ClinicalTrials.gov…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2008
James Hardie asbestos victims compensation summary
This is not a research study. It is a fact sheet and timeline from the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), reprinted in a journal. It covers compensation for victims of James Hardie, described as Australia…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Mesothelioma Among Shoe Workers
…described an unexpected finding in a study of causes of death among shoe industry workers. The study used death notices that labour unions published from 1966 to 1977, and the table heading gives 3806 deceased workers…
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Medical study · Medical research
Cilia and Axonemes in Mussels
…not deal with asbestos. The authors studied cilia, the tiny beating hairs on the gills of the freshwater mussel Unio, and tested how they reacted to serum from people with cystic fibrosis (CF), to serum from…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1984
Retired and former asbestos workers in Hawaii
…former male asbestos workers in Hawaii. Most had worked at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, and a few were contacted through two unions. Of 1,401 men reached by letter, 741 replied and 411 were interviewed…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1995
Beta-Carotene, vitamin A, and lung cancer chemoprevention: results of an intermediate endpoint study
…of 755 people in Texas with documented occupational asbestos exposure. They were former workers from a Tyler manufacturing plant and members of pipe fitters and insulation workers unions. The treated group (378 people) took 50 mg…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Difficulties of attribution of effect in workers exposed to fiberglass and asbestos
This study examined 175 workers from a rotary spun fiberglass plant in production since 1947. They were invited through their unions. The workers had chest X-rays, lung function tests, questionnaires and chest examinations. Of these…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Low Wages as Occupational Health Hazards
…on large, typically national, data sets and statistical models that use either instrumental variables or natural experiments and also account for other family income. Finally, we draw implications for laws governing minimum wages and labor unions.
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
How Canada Changed from Exporting Asbestos to Banning Asbestos: The Challenges That Had to Be Overcome
…to announcing a ban. The author described how the Quebec asbestos industry had the support of governments, political parties and trade unions, and how no Quebec or Canadian asbestos victims organization existed. The article recounted actions…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
History of Asbestos Ban in Hong Kong
…NGOs), labor unions and patients' self-help organizations demonstrated a more aggressive and proactive attitude than the HK government and have played a key role in the development of asbestos banning policy in HK. After numerous…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos and lung cancer: the clinicians' questions
…Doctors are increasingly asked to interpret scientific evidence for patients, families, co-workers, unions, employers, the public and courts of law, sometimes facing legal questions such as in which year it was known that asbestos causes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
The Status of Byssinosis in the United States
…2, 1970, with its organizing committee's recommendations. Participants included 200 scientists and representatives of industry, textile unions, government and private medical practice. The topic was byssinosis, a lung disease of workers exposed to cotton dust…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1971
Fibrous Glass Insulation: Health Hazard Question Resolved
…others on whether fibrous glass duct insulation is a health hazard. The author wrote that the health question had its roots in a jurisdictional dispute between two labor unions over installation work. Among the studies quoted…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2025
Engaging Social Stakeholders in National Asbestos Research for Public Health: An Italian Experience
…associations of former asbestos-exposed workers and of patients and their families, environmental non-governmental organisations, and national trade unions. Researchers presented project topics, such as mesothelioma surveillance and ovarian cancer attributable to asbestos in Lombardy…