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…
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 …
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.
Patriots Environmental of Oxford and three companies it owns will pay up to $129,000 to settle allegations that workers mishandled asbestos-containing material during two demolition projects, and that one of the companies failed to pay a $54,714 penalt…
Cancer Center researcher Haining Yang, pictured, received $1.9 million to look for biological signs to predict the risk of developing mesothelioma that could lead to early detection with researcher Michele Carbone. Researchers with the University of Ha…
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…
No April Fools joke here. Asbestos – a known human carcinogen – has not been banned and is still legal in the United States.
Carol Rogers of Leesburg has come to rely upon Angel Flight Southeast, a volunteer outreach that provides no-cost air transportation in privately owned planes for patients of all ages, to get to her appointments for treatments for mesothelioma at Flori…
Carol Rogers of Leesburg has come to rely upon Angel Flight Southeast, a volunteer outreach that provides no-cost air transportation in privately owned planes for patients of all ages, to get to her appointments for treatments for mesothelioma at Flori…
VICTIMS of asbestos-related cancer in Scotland could be in line for bigger payouts following a ruling in their favour at the Court of Session. A worker who sought compensation when he developed pleural plaques on his lungs as a result of being exposed …
$700k will be paid out to OSHA by Dover Greens LLC for asbestos fines resulting from work performed at the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Dover Plains.
Researchers are hopeful the immunotherapy vaccine will be the first to provide treatment for mesothelioma when standard therapies fail.
A Colorado high school is seeking the public’s opinion on the future of its building—all four options involve removing asbestos.
Convicted of selling his office for millions in bribes, disgraced former New York Assemblyman Sheldon Silver cannot practice law while his appeals process plays out, an appellate court ruled on Tuesday. Silver resigned as speaker of the New York State …
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