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Explaining the Flood of Asbestos Litigation: Consolidation, Bifurcation, and Bouquet Trials [PDF]

The number of asbestos personal injury claims filed each year is in the hundreds of thousands and has been increasing rather than decreasing over time, even though asbestos stopped being used in the early 1970's.
Michelle J. White
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Lung Function Profiles among Individuals with Nonmalignant Asbestos-related Disorders

Safety and Health at Work, 2014
Background: Inhalation of asbestos fibers can lead to adverse health effects on the lungs. This study describes lung function profiles among individuals with nonmalignant asbestos-related disorders (ARDs).
Eun-Kee Park, Deborah H. Yates, Donald Wilson   +2 more
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Exploring Animal Models That Resemble Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2017
Large multicenter clinical trials have led to two recently approved drugs for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF); yet, both of these therapies only slow disease progression and do not provide a definitive cure.
Jun Tashiro, Gustavo A. Rubio, Andrew H. Limper, Kurt Williams, Sharon J. Elliot, Ioanna Ninou, Vassilis Aidinis, Argyrios Tzouvelekis, Marilyn K. Glassberg, Marilyn K. Glassberg   +9 more
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Incidencia en España de la asbestosis y otras enfermedades pulmonares benignas debidas al amianto durante el período 1962-2010

Revista Española de Salud Pública, 2012
Fundamentos: En España carecemos de una descripción completa de las enfermedades profesionales causadas por el amianto. El objetivo del presente trabajo esconocer la incidencia durante el período 1962-2010 de las asbestosis y otras enfermedades ...
Montserrat García Gómez, Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro, Rosario Castañeda López   +2 more
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Toxic Time Bomb: The True Legacy Cost of the Auto Industry [PDF]

, 2009
This article is part of the collection of writings of Marshall (Mike) Westfall, retired autoworker from General Motors in Flint, Michigan (1964-1994) and activist critic of the auto industry restructuring that led to devastating job losses. It originally
Westfall, Marshall (Mike)
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ASBESTOSIS.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 1996
No Abstract.
openaire   +2 more sources

"À faire un peu de Poussière": Environmental health and the asbestos strike of 1949 [PDF]

, 2012
In Mid-February 1949, Workers at the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Québec, voted to strike against the American-owned Johns-Manville Company. This work stoppage precipitated a provincial industry-wide strike that lasted for almost five months.
Van Horssen, J
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Odgovornost za štetu zbog bolesti pomorca (azbestoza) : [prikaz presude]

Poredbeno Pomorsko Pravo, 2004
Azbest, s obzirom na svoja štetna svojstva predstavlja opasnu stvar, zbog toga rad s njime predstavlja opasnu djelatnost (posebno kad tuženik nije osigurao odgovarajuću zaštitnu opremu). Šteta koja je nastala u svezi s opasnom stvari, tj.
Vesna Skorupan
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Características de la exposición al amianto en los empleados de una empresa en Azuay, Ecuador

Oncología
Antecedentes: El amianto o asbesto, que según la Organización Mundial de la Salud puede causar cáncer y enfermedades pulmonares como la asbestosis, todavía se usa para hacer fibrocemento.
Juan Vázquez Andrade, Denisse Escandón Quezada   +1 more
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Understanding exposure risk using soil testing and GIS around an abandoned asbestos mine

Annals of Global Health
Background: Abandoned asbestos mines are a potential source of environmental contamination and exposure for nearby residents. The asbestos exposure risk may persist even after the cessation of mining activity if the mine is not properly closed.
Abhijeet V. Jadhav, Nilesh Gawde, Ramesh Veerappan, Yeyong Choi, Arthur L. Frank   +4 more
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