The British Lung Foundation is this week launching ‘Take 5 and Stay Alive’, a major campaign designed to raise awareness about the dangers of asbestos amongst tradespeople.
A widow, whose husband died a painful death 50 years after he was exposed to asbestos, has warned others to get themselves checked.
Michael has been battling mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos, for two years.
Asbestos exposure is causally associated with the development of malignant mesothelioma .
Verastem is a small-cap company that is developing cancer therapeutics targeting the cancer stem cells .
A schoolgirl who organised a charity fundraiser in memory of her dad has been nominated for the Croydon Champions Child of Courage Award.
HOME renovators are risking death by not protecting themselves from asbestos, according to an article in the latest issue of the Medical Journal of Australia.
MolMed S.p.A. announces today receipt of the official notification from the European Patent Office of the decision to grant a patent covering the therapeutic use of its investigational anticancer drug NGR-hTNF at low doses.
A new targeted therapy for asbestos-related tumours has shown promise in an animal model.
Verastem Inc. on Tuesday announced the start of a late-stage trial of its potential drug for mesothelioma which it hopes will form the basis of a new drug application in as soon as three years.
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade has hired experts to clean every truck at its 47 fire stations across the city after asbestos was found at its Thornbury mechanics workshop.
In A Clinical Guide to Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases , pp. 153-169, doi:10.1007/978-1-62703-149-3_8 Despite the numerous manuscripts published on the respiratory health effects of asbestos over the past 50 years, there are a number of cl…
Background We applied the well-established, but rather under-utilized, indicator of Potential Years of Life Lost to estimate the global burden of mesothelioma and asbestosis.
Research and Markets: Lung Cancer Drug Pipeline Update 2013: Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and Small Cell Lung Cancer Comprises Over 95% of all Lung Cancers High unmet needs still persist for this tumor type and despite two decades of extensive R&D an…
South and East Cumbria coroner, Mr Ian Smith, recorded a verdict of natural causes in relation to Henry Austin McGeown.