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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International ...
Van Hai Pham +7 more
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History of asbestos related disease [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2004 Abstract The first medical article on the hazards of asbestos dust appeared in the British Medical Journal in 1924. Following inquiries by Edward Merewether and Charles Price, the British government introduced regulations to control dangerous dust emissions in UK asbestos factories.
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Small, Volume 22, Issue 26, 8 May 2026.ABSTRACT Urban heat islands have become a global issue, as they severely impact several key factors, including elevated energy consumption, increased air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, compromised human health and comfort, and reduced water quality.
G.P. Darshan +5 more
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Physicochemical Properties and Factors that Induce Asbestos-Related Respiratory Disease
KONA Powder and Particle Journal, 2014 It is thought that inhaled dusts such as asbestos and man-made mineral fibers in the lung repeatedly induce persistent inflammation and finally lead to pulmonary fibrosis and respiratory cancer.
Hiroto Izumi, Yasuo Morimoto
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Public Health Versus Court-Sponsored Secrecy [PDF]
, 2006 Public health practice relies on access to information. Givelber and Robbins discuss the debate about court-sponsored secrecy: Whether or not courts should tolerate, edorse, or protect secrecy when the sequestered information might help protect the ...
Givelber, Daniel J., Robbins, Anthony
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Pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer risks in relation to occupational history and asbestos lung burden. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: We have conducted a population-based study of pleural mesothelioma patients with occupational histories and measured asbestos lung burdens in occupationally exposed workers and in the general population.
Burdett, G +9 more
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Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the outsourcing of asylum processing and resettlement from Global North to South. Many of these containment practices retrace the fault lines of more typically thought‐of colonial extractive regimes. This article draws on long‐term ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, the world'
Julia Morris
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OncoImmunologyImmune checkpoint therapy (ICT) causes durable tumour responses in a subgroup of patients, but it is not well known how T cell receptor beta (TCRβ) repertoire dynamics contribute to the therapeutic response.
Joel Kidman +21 more
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JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Werner Aberer +4 more
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Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2018 Background This study aimed to enhance understanding of the epidemiologic characteristics of asbestos-related diseases, and to provide information that could inform policy-making aimed at prevention and compensation for occupational asbestos exposure ...
Yon Soo An +4 more
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