Category: <span>Outreach & Awareness</span>

Category: Outreach & Awareness

Cancer & Caregiving, Events & Support, Mesothelioma News, Outreach & Awareness

Fall 2019 Scholarship Winner Karina Stiles-Cox

 

Mesothelioma.com is pleased to announce the winner of the Fall 2019 Scholarship, Karina Stiles-Cox.
This fall, Karina will begin pursuing her doctorate in humanities at Salve Regina University. As Karina explained in her essay, the dream of earning her PhD has been many years in the making and has been derailed numerous times from hardships she has faced, including her breast cancer diagnosis.

asbestos exposure, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Outreach & Awareness

EPA’s New Rule Shows Resistance to the Need for an Asbestos Ban

 

Asbestos is still not banned in the United States, despite the warnings and concerns of scientists and advisors. Asbestos is known to cause a series of diseases, including malignant mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put various rules and regulations into place to help protect the public and the environment from the dangers of asbestos, however, their recent rule calls their protections into question.