The dust came from asbestos sheets he used to cut with a Skilsaw, while working as a Dunedin builder in the 1970s. He and other workers were given paper masks, but they were nothing compared with today’s modern respirators, he said.
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A conversation with comedian Quincy Jones is like sitting down with an old friend. More than a few “dudes,” “mans,” and excited “rights,” pepper his sentences, and he speaks freely, like he’s known you forever.
It was a solemn memorial to 14 men taken too soon – photographs of the dead, showing men lost to lung, bowel or prostate cancer, pinned to a noticeboard in the Dunedin City Council’s former Midland St workers’ yard. The men worked for the council’s water maintenance team, and most never saw retirement – dying in their 50s, early 60s, or in one case a week after retirement.
From miracle mineral to silent killer, asbestos has left behind a toxic legacy of death and disease in New Zealand. In the first of a three-part series, Chris Morris counts the human cost.
The death toll from asbestos-related disease in New Zealand will continue to climb for decades to come, despite a ban on imports of building materials containing the toxic mineral. Environment Minister Nick Smith on Wednesday announced New Zealand woul…
Renowned thoracic surgeon Dr. Wickii Vigneswaran in Chicago believes far too many patients with pleural mesothelioma are being denied aggressive surgeries that could improve their quality of life. He wants to fix that dilemma. Vigneswaran, a mesothelioma specialist at the Loyola University Medical Center, authored a recent study debunking the long-standing belief that major surgery…
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The road toward eliminating the threat of asbestos has been long, slow-moving, incredibly frustrating and littered with significant hurdles. Thankfully, advocates like Linda Reinstein, who lost her husband to asbestos-related disease in 2003, refuse to…
A former Marlow teacher who is dying from a type of cancer believed to be caused by asbestos has called on her family to launch a campaign pressurising the government rid schools of the deathly material. Sue Stephens – who taught at two primary schools…
Montana State University (MSU) received $18k for asbestos research as part of a $190k grant to increase quality healthcare.
Badly timed IPO and a weak market have led to a poor stock performance, but the fundamentals tell a different story. Stock, near an all-time low, is trading at a significant discount to other biotech names that are focusing on cancer treatments, which …
Asbestos was discovered at the Mill Run project site in Levittown, Pennsylvania during construction into a mixed-use assisted care facility.
Synergistic anti-tumor efficacy of immunogenic adenovirus ONCOS-102 and standard of care chemotherapy in preclinical mesothelioma model. Malignant mesothelioma is a rare cancer type caused mainly by asbestos exposure.
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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 in New York State’s End of Life Options Act, currently in front of the state legislature.