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…
For decades, mesothelioma has predominately affected white men older than 60 years of age. This is largely because of the rare cancer’s connection to occupational asbestos exposure and its long latency period of 20 to 50 years. But as worldwide use of asbestos continues to decline and more industrialized countries continue to ban the toxic…
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Former Tennessee State Senator Ray Albright was exposed to asbestos four decades ago, and now he is struggling with mesothelioma cancer as a result.
Former Tennessee State Senator Ray Albright was exposed to asbestos four decades ago, and now he is struggling with mesothelioma cancer as a result.
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)
The recent record-setting $18 million verdict out of California rekindled the hotly debated link between talcum powder and mesothelioma cancer. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded Philip Depoian the multimillion-dollar verdict against talc supplier Whittaker, Clark & Daniels. Depoian claimed the company’s asbestos-tainted talcum powder products used at the barbershop where his father worked…
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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.
Mesothelioma cancer patients can live longer and better lives if they begin palliative care sooner, according to a multidisciplinary panel of experts convened by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The panel recommended that palliative care options should be explored almost immediately after diagnosis of mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive cancer with no definitive…
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A new study Inhalation Toxicology looks at the health risks of asbestos exposure on commercial ships. Read more at Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance.