Terry Miller grew up in the country not far from the River Murray and used to be a good swimmer. Now he struggles for breath and needs oxygen 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, making swimming and other simple pleasures impossible.
Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that affects the lining of a person’s internal organs, such as the lungs, stomach, and heart. There is no cure for the disease, and most cases are directly related to exposure to asbestos.
A grieving family are appealing to former colleagues of a much-loved man to help with an investigation into asbestos exposure. Bill Wyatt, of Ingrebourne Road, Rainham, worked at the Tate & Lyle factory in Silvertown, North Woolwich, between 1957 a…
In October, a board of supervisors from a California county approved the temporary closure of a local library for an asbestos abatement project. The closure is set to take place following the Thanksgiving holiday.
A new WorkSafeBC campaign is asking homeowners to use caution when renovating older homes as it could disturb asbestos, which can be found in a wide range of old products including drywall mud. While television, internet tutorials and a robust do-it-yo…
In October, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced that a company renovating a nursing home in Wisconsin is facing over $240,000 in proposed fines for four willful and nine serious health violations. OSHA inspectors became aware of…
Aduro Biotech, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company with three distinct immunotherapy technologies, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has lifted the partial clinical hold placed on its clinical trials evaluating the LADD immunoth…
ALTON Simmons Hanly Conroy is pleased to announce that Karoline Carstens , a mesothelioma attorney in the firm’s Asbestos Department, has been selected by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of its 2016 “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch.” In previous years, Simmons Hanly Conroy Chairman John Simmons and shareholders John A. Barnerd and Amy E. Garrett also were named to the LBPC 40 Under Forty list.
LOS ANGELES, CA , U.S., November 17, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — The Pacific Mesothelioma Center at the Pacific Heart, Lung & Blood Institute celebrated the fifth anniversary of its annual 5K Walk/Hike for Meso on Oct. 23rd 2016, at the Paramount …
NEW YORK, Nov 17 The company behind the controversial Dakota Access crude pipeline will seek to complete the project even if protests against its construction continue, its chief executive told the PBS NewsHour television news program late on Wednesday.
Novocure announces that interim data from its Phase 2 STELLAR trial assessing Tumor Treating Fields plus standard chemo in patients with advance mesothelioma will be presented on Wednesday, December 7 at the 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Vien…
The report presents analysi… )–Invitae Corporation , a genetic information company, today announced that members of the company’s management team will present at the Canaccord Genuity … )–The inaugural International Machine Vibration Analysis Conference in Orlando, Florida delivers an “all thumbs-up” event to attendees and adds Gold Coast, QLD, Austra… Novocure Presents Interim STELLAR Results at IASLC Suggesting Treatment with Tumor Treating Fields Plus Chemotherapy may Extend Survival of Patients with Mesothelioma )–Novocure announced today that data will be presented from STELLAR, its ongoing phase 2 pilot clinical trial in mesothelioma, at the International Association fo… )–Calimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage gene therapy company, has made a key addition to its leadership team with the appointment of Salim Yazji, M.D. as executive vice pr… )–Invitae Corporation today … (more)
A woman died of an asbestos-related cancer which she may have contracted from dust on her father’s work overalls decades before as a child. An inquest heard 59-year-old Julie Elizabeth Lawless, of Wrights Lane, Torquay, Devon died on New Year’s Eve 2015 from mesothelioma.
Workers on a famous bridge in Sydney unexpectedly found asbestos under concrete slabs earlier this year, and some government officials are questioning why they didn’t find out for nearly 10 months. A crew on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which carries vehicular traffic, a rail line and pedestrian and cycling lanes over Sydney Harbour, reportedly discovered the asbestos while removing a toll booth in February 2016.
The scientists at Adelaide’s Flinders University have found that malignant mesothelioma tumours are able to transform into blood vessels, promoting their own growth. “Instead of waiting for the outside of the tissue to grow blood vessels in, the tumour cells themselves branch out, growing blood vessels that reach out into surrounding tissues, tapping into the native vasculature,” she said.