It’s not easy being a chemical company these days, especially not a chemical company with a long history. And both 3M fall into that category.There’s one particular chemical that’s causing looming legal headaches for both companies right now — however, 3M is better equipped to weather the storm than Chemours.
It has long been surmised that the aluminum compounds used in many antiperspirant deodorant products may be a cause of cancer. But a new study out of Switzerland confirms this to be true, showing that aluminum chloride , a common additive in antiperspi…
ALEXANDER Culbert lost his mother in May is calling on his late father’s colleagues to help him achieve justice for both his parents. A GRIEVING son has launched a legal action after his mum died from asbestos-related cancer he believes she got from cleaning his dad’s dusty work clothes.
SELLAS Life Sciences Group , a development-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative products to treat cancer, has made four executive appointments to provide medical, clinical, commercial and financial expertise to support the development of its unique product, the galinpepimut-S immunotherapeutic anti-cancer treatment. — William Pollett has been appointed SELLAS’ Chief Financial Officer.
Rosetta Genomics Ltd. , a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based and other molecular diagnostics, today announced that the Company has added two new patent allowances to its intellectual property portfolio for its microRNA platform technology…
DR. ROACH WRITES: Flu season is approaching, and it is time to review the options available to prevent flu for the 2016-17 season.
A NEW combination of drugs that could save the lives of pancreatic cancer sufferers is to be tested in Scotland. The assessments will form part of a new collaboration between Cancer Research UK and drugs companies MSD and Verastem, and will be co-led b…
The Indigenous community of Baryulgil is facing a new wave of asbestos-related illness after the first mesothelioma diagnosis of a miner’s child. Ffloyd Laurie, 54, was diagnosed with mesothelioma earlier this year, developing the cancer after playing in the tailings from James Hardie’s mine at Baryulgil, in northern New South Wales, as a child.
In a recent published opinion, the Arizona Court of Appeals held that an employer does not owe a duty of care to the child of an employee who contracts mesothelioma from asbestos brought home on the employee’s work clothes, dealing a fatal blow to “Take-Home” asbestos exposure cases in Arizona. In Quiroz v.
The drug Bronchitol has been approved for marketing in Russia following new Russian laws that provide patients access to innovative medicines, Pharmaxis announced to the ASX on Tuesday. Bronchitol will be manufactured and exported to Russia from Pharmaxis’ Sydney factory with the first sales expected before the end of 2016.
The $12.7 million multi-purpose terminal will be able to accommodate cruise ships up to 3000 metres long and will be similar in scale to Sydney’s White Bay Terminal. The Hunter region’s tourism industry would significantly grow once the facility was built, Premier Mike Baird said on Tuesday.
A Perth mesothelioma sufferer who won a record compensation payout from James Hardie has died a week after marrying his partner. The father of two was diagnosed with mesothelioma of the stomach in 2009.
A Perth mesothelioma sufferer who won a record compensation payout from James Hardie has died a week after marrying his partner. The father of two was diagnosed with mesothelioma of the stomach in 2009.
The devastated children of a former sergeant major who died decades after coming into contact with deadly asbestos are appealing for help from his former colleagues. Ronald Bell, from Wallsend , died after a short battle with mesothelioma – a terminal …
FIFTY years ago Richard Mills was a shy, gay teenager at Sydney’s Marsden High School, when he met Richard Gill AO who at the time was a music teacher with a burgeoning career in classical music. Gill had begun pioneering an inclusive kind of music instruction where the classroom was open for all to attend, whether they were musicians or not.