Asbestos Discovered In South-Doyle High School’s Library
Asbestos was discovered in South-Doyle High School’s library, specifically between the ceiling and roof, causing it to close.
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New Immunotherapy Center Raises Hopes for Mesothelioma
Johns Hopkins leaders expect the recently launched Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in Baltimore will advance treatment for malignant mesothelioma. The future of mesothelioma treatment will arrive quicker now. The institute likely will become America’s research and development centerpiece for immunotherapy, which many cancer experts believe is the future of all cancer treatment. “The potential…
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New Immunotherapy Center Raises Hopes for Mesothelioma
Johns Hopkins leaders expect the recently launched Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in Baltimore will advance treatment for malignant mesothelioma. The future of mesothelioma treatment will arrive quicker now. The institute likely will become America’s research and development centerpiece for immunotherapy, which many cancer experts believe is the future of all cancer treatment. “The potential…
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New Immunotherapy Center Raises Hopes for Mesothelioma
Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg–Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in Baltimore will advance mesothelioma treatment.
Asbestos Exposure Concerns Raised at a University in California
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…
Life-insurance industry wants assisted dying treated differently than suicide
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…
Children, Teachers Risk Asbestos Exposure in Chicago Schools
A new report shows hundreds of Chicago’s students and teachers are at risk of asbestos exposure in schools because of damaged asbestos products.
Two Companies Fined $27k For Asbestos Violations
Oregon-based Conser Design & Construction and Master Craft Restoration and Maintenance of Corvallis have been fined a total of $27,200 in asbestos violations.
Cancer ‘death sentence’ warning for former Mansfield factory workers
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. The family of a former factory worker diagnosed with terminal cancer are warning other former employees they co…
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Woman educates public about asbestos exposure
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…
B.C. woman with multiple sclerosis first to be granted doctor-assisted death
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…
Metal workers exposed to asbestos undergo testing for lung diseases
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…
Asbestos focus of complex Indiana legal battle
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 …
My husband died after asbestos exposure. He would be outraged by this legislation
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.