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The 59-year-old’s death was announced in an email sent to employees at Stewart’s lifestyle company, where Plimpton worked alongside her famous sister for more than 25 years.

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Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. , a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel protein therapeutics for cancer and inflammatory diseases, today provided a corporate update and reported financial results for the secon…

STEVE Jobs was quoted as saying: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

As a result of damage from rockets, asbestos roofs are becoming a dangerous threat, Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz says.

In Bostic, et. al. v. Georgia-Pacific Corporation , 57 Tex.Sup.Ct.J. 1091, the Supreme Court of Texas reaffirmed that the “substantial factor” causation test applies in asbestos personal injury cases, defined the quantitative evidence necessary to esta…

In Graver v. Foster Wheeler Corp., 2014 Pa. Super. 132, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania held that the statute of repose applicable to designers and constructors of improvements to real property applied to asbestos claims.

But his life changed when he became ill due to mesothelioma, a form of cancer which can be caused by exposure to asbestos.

MINING giant BHP Billiton will pay a record $2.2 million to a man who was exposed to asbestos at a NSW steelworks.

On April 8, 2014, the Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments in an asbestos case concerning the liability of a defendant who has sold a component part to a manufacturer who then incorporates the part into its own products.

Through focused advocacy, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation , as well as other members of the Deadliest Cancers Coalition, increased membership in the newly established Congressional Caucus on the Deadliest Cancers.

The ACT Government will ask the Commonwealth for a low interest loan or fund, potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to help it solve the region’s asbestos crisis.

LOADING and unloading asbestos sheets and pipes led to the death of a Wotton-under-Edge lorry driver decades later, a coroner has ruled.

Ltd., the commercial arm of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The agreement involves collaboration with the Nancy and Stephen Grand Israel National Center for Personalized Medicine to develop novel methods for the preparation of next-generation sequen…