You are much more likely to die from lung diseases here than in wealthier parts of London, with Mayor Sadiq Khan blaming air pollution inequality. Newham residents have more than double the chance of dying from COPD than those in Kensington and Chelsea…
Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA’s new Silica Rule will have a lasting effect on nearly 2.3 million workers and over 675,000 employers. The chances are high that the new Silica Rule will affect your business and may require you to implement new policies and programs to protect your employees’ safety.
ASCO 2016: SELLAS Life Sciences Group Announces Exciting Results For Galinpepimut-S, The Company’s WT1 Vaccine, In Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia And Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma , As Presented At The 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting /PRNewswire/ — SELLAS Life Sciences Group , a development-stage biopharmaceutical company with its main focus on developing innovative products to treat cancer, today announced that promising results from a Phase 2 trial of galinpepimut-S, the Company’s WT1 cancer vaccine, in patients with acute myeloid leukemia were presented in an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology , being held in .
Aduro Biotech, Inc. today announced the presentation of updated data from an ongoing Phase 1b clinical trial of its immunotherapy product candidate CRS-207 in combination with pemetrexed and cisplatin as front-line treatment for patients with unresecta…
A jury has awarded $8.75 million to a 65-year-old man who has incurable cancer as a result of asbestos exposure in the 1970s. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that David Hoff’s attorneys say the former construction worker’s mesothelioma was caused by a wallboard product that became airborne when it was sanded down.
Veterans from all branches of the military were once at risk of asbestos exposure. Even today, asbestos exposure remains an issue in the military, although it’s much less likely for those currently in service to come into contact with the harmful mineral.
Five Prime Therapeutics Announces Updated Data in Mesothelioma Patients from Ongoing Phase 1b Trial of FP-1039 Presented at 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting Objective response rate of 39% and disease control rate of 100% in patients at or below the maximum tol…
PITTSFIELD >> The South County Relay For Life is in a couple of weeks. For those who don’t know, it’s a weekend event that raises awareness of cancer and raises money for cancer research.
MYSTERY surrounds the death of a 71-year-old retired cleaner who had never knowingly come into contact with asbestos, but died from a cancer usually caused by the deadly mineral. Pauline Verity, of Bradford Road, Keighley, worked at a butcher’s making sausages, then at Bingley’s Andertons Engineering, making fastening clips before spending more than 20 years at Morton Close Nursing Home in Crossflatts.
It’s been just over two months since Ellen DeGeneres helped terminally-ill aspiring comedian Quincy Jones land an HBO special – and now, he’s just one day away from having his story hit the small screen. In anticipation of Thursday’s Quincy Jones: Burning the Light premiere, Jones, 32, opened up to Entertainment Weekly about his cancer battle, his comedy special and his perspective on life after being diagnosed with stage-4 mesothelioma cancer last year and was told that he has only a year to live.
It’s easy to get disenchanted and even disheartened in DC. So many people arrive here with ambitious and genuine goals of changing the world only to be held back by political realities that so often plague Capitol Hill.
Comedian Quincy Jones, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, is looking forward to his HBO special airing Thursday. The 32-year-old comedian, who shares his name with the renowned music producer , was diagnosed in 2015 with a rare form of cancer…
In 2015 and 2016, juries awarded $13 million in a talc case in California, and $72 million and $55 million in talc cases tried in Missouri. The California plaintiff argued that she used talcum powder which contained asbestos and the asbestos in the tal…
In 2015 and 2016, juries awarded $13 million in a talc case in California, and $72 million and $55 million in talc cases tried in Missouri. The California plaintiff argued that she used talcum powder which contained asbestos and the asbestos in the tal…
The California Supreme Court ruled that an asbestos supplier is responsible for not warning end users about the dangers of a manufacturer’s product. William Webb sued raw asbestos supplier Special Electric Company after he was diagnosed with mesothelio…