Mesothelioma Legal News

Richard Weir has made a 15-man shortlist for the Plumber of the Year award and wants your support as he vows to donate his prize A North Shields plumber has pledged to donate his prize fund to the Mesothelioma UK charity if he wins the Plumber of the Y…

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals , [1] which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit : long , thin fibrous crystals , with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic “fibrils” that can be released …

Recently, an Orange County Grand Jury released a report about the presence of asbestos in schools across the county. ‘Dealing with Asbestos in Orange County Public Schools,’ reported that over two-thirds of Orange County’s nearly 600 K-12 public schools have encapsulated asbestos present in one or more of the buildings on their school campuses.

A new study of shipyard workers in Italy indicates that years and even decades later, those who have worked around asbestos can suffer health consequences, including mesothelioma and lung cancer. The study, published last month in La Medicina Del Lavoro , an Italian medical journal, looked at former workers from one specific shipyard who were diagnosed with asbestos-related illnesses, and analyzed postmortem lung samples to determine at what level asbestos remained in the worker’s bodies.

Testing for asbestos is underway in 68 buildings across Australia including Sydney’s Chris O’Brien Lifehouse after the deadly substance was found at Perth Children’s Hospital and a Brisbane office tower . Brad Parker, the national assistant secretary of the Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy sector Union construction division said he is concerned for his members.

When diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma, a rare cancer with a blighted future, evolutionary biologist and writer, Stephen Jay Gould, turned his attention to the statistics; specifically, the central tendency of survival with the tumor. The central t…