Congratulations, you’re now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. A RETIRED teacher who spent 35 years in Lancashire primary schools is appealing to her former colleagues for he…
Heidi von Palleske lost both parents to asbestos-related illnesses and her siblings have been diagnosed with pleural plaque. Heidi von Palleske lost both parents to asbestos-related illnesses and her siblings have been diagnosed with pleural plaque.
Congratulations, you’re now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. A LEEDS hospice that cared for a Wetherby man while he was dying from asbestos-related cancer has received almo…
When Courtney Davis got married last summer, she posed in her gown with a large placard: “Message2Congress: If you had banned asbestos, maybe my dad would have been here to give me away.” Davis’ father, Larry W. Davis of Southington, Conn., died in Jul…
Congratulations, you’re now registered! Let us know what news and updates you want to hear about and we’ll send them straight to your inbox. For the last 18 months, Chris Knighton, from Wallsend-based Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Research Fund, has been …
A FAMILY from Swindon has received thousands of pounds from British Rail following the death of a former employee who spent more than 40 years working for the company. Valentine Thomas died in 2011, aged 88, having contracted mesothelioma, a cancer cau…
Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, the EnPro Industries Inc. unit that filed Chapter 11 in June 2010 to address asbestos claims, won a long-fought battle with personal-injury claimants when their request to reopen the record of a trial estimating the co…
A FATHER of three’s job as a firefighter could have led to the disease that claimed his life, an inquest heard. David Roger Burt, 69, of Berrow Road, Burnham, died from malignant mesothelioma after coming into contact with asbestos when he worked for S…
On 8th December 2014, the Scottish Medicines Consortium accepted for use within NHS Scotland Alimta monotherapy for the maintenance treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in patients whose disease has not progressed imme…
Polaris Group is currently conducting clinical trials on ADI-PEG 20 in combination with cisplatin in melanoma and ovarian cancer, in combination with doxorubicin in HER2 negative breast cancer, in combination with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine for adv…
Q. My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer, and we’re confused by the med-speak that the doctors are using. They keep asking Mom what she wants to do, but how can she know what’s best for her? – Kathy G., Orlando, Florida A. You’ve pinpointed a…
This report provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma, complete with comparative analysis at various stages, therapeutics assessment by drug target, mechanism of action , route of administratio…
Q.: My mother was just diagnosed with breast cancer, and we’re confused by the med-speak that the doctors are using. They keep asking Mom what she wants to do, but how can she know what’s best for her? – Kathy G., Orlando, Fla.
A housing officer was paid A 48,000 after contracting Mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, a Freedom of Information disclosure has revealed. A teacher was awarded A 27,000 after a similar action, with the council paying A…
Gerald Twinn, of Burgess Road, Brigg, who was 74 when he passed away in July, worked as a mechanical fitter at the site for 36 years, according to his son Nicholas. After the factory’s closure, he took on a similar role at a breadcrumb factory in Gains…