One of the university’s buildings was singled out by a staff member and a student over concerns that people teaching and taking classes there could be exposed to asbestos. The hall was built during a time when asbestos-containing materials were commonl…
MARCH 16: Youssef Cohen rides to a doctor’s appointment with his wife Lindsay Wright on March 16, 2016 in New York City. Cohen, 68, has an incurable cancer called mesothelioma and is advocating for the right to choose how and when he will die, proposed…
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Aside from ominous television commericals, Tiffany Schreiber had never heard of the cancer caused by asbestos exposure, until her own diagnosis. “I had lost 80 pounds over the course of maybe 10 months, and I knew there was something wrong,” said Schre…
MARCH 16: Youssef Cohen rides to a doctor’s appointment with his wife Lindsay Wright on March 16, 2016 in New York City. Cohen, 68, has an incurable cancer called mesothelioma and is advocating for the right to choose how and when he will die, proposed…
Paul Toki spent more than 20 years as a sheet metal worker, a lot of it in coal-burning power plants where dealing with asbestos was part of the job. The 69-year-old retired member of Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 12 recalled using a metal grinder wi…
Larry Myers worked 40 years as an electrician, unaware that he had been handling materials that could cause his death. Cancer-causing asbestos at center of complex Indiana legal battle Larry Myers worked 40 years as an electrician, unaware that he had …
For 18 years, my husband and I would go out on a date once a month. We’d wander through downtown, do our grocery shopping and then go out for a nice dinner at a restaurant.
Patriots Environmental of Oxford and three companies it owns will pay up to $129,000 to settle allegations that workers mishandled asbestos-containing material during two demolition projects, and that one of the companies failed to pay a $54,714 penalt…
Cancer Center researcher Haining Yang, pictured, received $1.9 million to look for biological signs to predict the risk of developing mesothelioma that could lead to early detection with researcher Michele Carbone. Researchers with the University of Ha…
MARCH 16: Youssef Cohen rides to a doctor’s appointment with his wife Lindsay Wright on March 16, 2016 in New York City. Cohen, 68, has an incurable cancer called mesothelioma and is advocating for the right to choose how and when he will die, proposed…
No April Fools joke here. Asbestos – a known human carcinogen – has not been banned and is still legal in the United States.
Carol Rogers of Leesburg has come to rely upon Angel Flight Southeast, a volunteer outreach that provides no-cost air transportation in privately owned planes for patients of all ages, to get to her appointments for treatments for mesothelioma at Flori…
Carol Rogers of Leesburg has come to rely upon Angel Flight Southeast, a volunteer outreach that provides no-cost air transportation in privately owned planes for patients of all ages, to get to her appointments for treatments for mesothelioma at Flori…