299 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 4 of 15
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Medical study · Medical research · 1993
Asbestos screening and education programs for building and construction trades unions
…screening and education programs designed for the building and construction trades unions were a national multisite effort that focused on improving the health of eligible union members and retirees at high risk of developing asbestos-related…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1992
Use of death certificates in epidemiological studies, including occupational hazards: variations in discordance of different asbestos-associated diseases on best evidence ascertainment
This was a prospective study of all 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada. They were followed from January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1991
Asbestos disease in construction, refinery, and shipyard workers
…workers, and how shipyard work and cigarette smoking affected it. Workers were recruited through local unions if their first asbestos exposure was at least 15 years earlier and had lasted 5 years. From 1986 to 1989…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1982
Mortality of brain tumors among asbestos insulation workers in the United States and Canada
This prospective cohort study followed 17,800 men on the rolls of the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, recording deaths through December 31, 1979. The men mainly…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1986
Patterns of mortality among plumbers and pipefitters
This proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) study compared causes of death among 7,121 white male members and retirees of California plumbers' and pipefitters' union locals who died in the U.S. in 1960-79 with the…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1990
Decline in death rates among asbestos insulation workers 1967-1986 associated with diminution of work exposure to asbestos
This prospective study followed the mortality of 17,800 men who belonged to the asbestos insulation workers' union in the United States and Canada on January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1986. They had used insulation…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1994
Spirometric impairments in long-term insulators. Relationships to duration of exposure, smoking, and radiographic abnormalities
This study examined breathing tests (spirometry) and chest X-rays in 2,611 men from the asbestos insulators' union. They were examined in 19 US and Canadian cities in 1981 to 1983; 87 percent were at…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Worker-sponsored survey for asbestosis: detection of occupational lung disease without a control group
…a cross-sectional survey, requested by a local union, of 57 white male workers at a small northeastern Massachusetts plant making asbestos wall board. The group was 52 of 56 active union members, three retirees and…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
Cancer Attributable to Asbestos Exposure in Shipbreaking Workers: A Matched-Cohort Study
This retrospective matched-cohort study followed 4,427 former shipbreaking workers in Taiwan, members of the 1985 Kaohsiung Shipbreaking Workers Union, and 22,135 general-population controls matched by age, sex and living area. All were…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Traffic-related distribution of antimony in roadside soils
…the need for more detailed research on various traffic-related emissions and related distribution patterns. Since the banning of asbestos in the European Union, its substitution with antimony (Sb) in brake linings has led to increased…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2023
Exposure to insulating materials and risk of coronary artery diseases: a cross-sectional study
…CAD among insulators. In this cross-sectional study, we recruited 643 adults (≥18 years), full-time insulators from the Local 110 Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Union in Edmonton, Alberta. We obtained demographic information…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2017
How Canada's Asbestos Industry Was Defeated in Quebec
…all the political parties in the Canadian House of Commons and the Quebec National Assembly, as well as from business and union organizations. Two lobby organizations (Chrysotile Institute and International Chrysotile Association) had significant global impact…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2016
Historical state of knowledge of the health risks of asbestos posed to seamen on merchant ships
…authors reviewed studies, air-sampling reports, government, union and industry documents, and 1980 Congressional hearings. They found maritime health and safety organizations first addressed it in the mid- to late 1970s and early 1980s. The Coast…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Australia's Ongoing Legacy of Asbestos: Significant Challenges Remain Even after the Complete Banning of Asbestos Almost Fifteen Years Ago
…The sustained efforts of trade unions and non-governmental organisations were essential in forcing the Australian government to finally implement the 2003 asbestos ban. Trade unions and non-government organisations continue to play a key role…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1967
Selikoff's Address to the Delegates of 21st Convention the International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Asbestos Workers
This is a transcript of a 1967 convention speech. The author, the union's medical consultant, studied members of New York and New Jersey Locals 12 and 32. Of 632 members on December 31, 1942, 255…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Cancer Incidence Among Painters And Some Allied Trades
…and insulators. The author followed three groups, drawn from union and certificate records, forward through national death and cancer registers. Painters had about twice the expected esophageal cancer (17 against 7.9) and excesses of respiratory…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2021
Orphan Designation and Cisplatin/Hyaluronan Complex in an Intracavitary Film for Malignant Mesothelioma
…patients or animals were tested in it. It described the European Union orphan-medicine designation procedure for a film made of sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronan) loaded with the cancer drug cisplatin. The film is meant to be…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2022
Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: A review
…work on diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (DMPM), a cancer of the lining of the abdomen. The three authors were based at China-Japan Union Hospital in Changchun, China. It reported no new patient data and did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1973
Relation Of Cigarette Smoking To Risk Of Death Of Asbestos-Associated Disease Among Insulation Workers In The United States
…Selikoff followed two groups of asbestos insulation workers to examine smoking and asbestos-associated deaths. Among 370 New York-area union members followed 1963 to 1971, 41 of 283 regular cigarette smokers died of lung cancer…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos Disease Among Career Insulators
…93 career insulators whose first exposure to asbestos-containing insulation material was at least 15 years earlier. The insulators chose to come forward after union locals announced free evaluations. Two plaintiff attorney groups sponsored the examinations…