CHRIS UHLMANN: More than a thousand anxious and grief-stricken families caught up in an asbestos crisis have been thrown a billion dollar lifeline by Federal Cabinet. AM understands it agreed last night to give the ACT Government a concessional loan.
ASBESTOS ALERT: Daniel and Nicola Moore, with son, Hunter, 2, raised concerns in June about the way asbestos issues in the ceiling of their house were handled. The result last week of a WorkSafe New Zealand investigation into the Earthquake Commission’…
Mesothelioma Victim Has $18 Million Punitive Damages Award Upheld
HEALTH authorities have revealed a spike in deadly mesothelioma rates in the area around an old asbestos factory in Melbourne’s west, after 16 people in the area were found to have died from the disease. VICTORIA’S environment watchdog was told deadly …
Joe Amento, a lifelong resident of Ambler, Pennsylvania, was 53 when he died of a rare cancer with one main cause: exposure to asbestos. He was fine at Christmas 2002.
State Investigates Demolition Contractor for Possible Asbestos Violations
Of 16 evaluable patients with response data, 75% had confirmed durable partial responses and 19% experienced stable disease after CRS-207 and chemotherapy, for a 94% rate of disease control . At the time of the presentation, estimated progression-free …
Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals recently reconsidered the duty to warn of asbestos-containing replacement parts that the defendants did not manufacture or place in the stream of commerce in Philip Royce May v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., et al …
David Mason, chief of thoracic surgery and transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center, is building a new program with multiple cancer specialists.
Barabara Fiona Fargus, who lived at King Edward Road, Oxhey, died on September 14 at the Peace Hospice from cancer. The 54-year-old worked in a London hospital for about two years and during that period building alterations took place which exposed her…
A hospital which claimed a man with terminal cancer who could not speak phoned them to cancel an examination and a locum GP who withdrew continuous pain relief from a dying man have been criticised by an ombudsman. A hospital which claimed a man with t…
An asbestos factory in Melbourne’s western suburbs may have affected nearby residents and left dust in homes, even 30 years after it closed, in what’s been described as Australia’s worst asbestos tragedy since Wittenoom. LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: For nea…
The Commonwealth received expert medical advice more than 25 years ago warning Canberra’s death rate to mesothelioma would almost certainly rise if people lived with Mr Fluffy insulation and that children were particularly vulnerable to harm from the a…
By Liz Segrist lsegrist@scbiznews.com Published Oct. 20, 2014 From the Oct. 6 print issue of the Business Journal With the terminal renovation project about halfway completed at Charleston International Airport , construction crews have discovered more…
Joe Amento, a lifelong resident of Ambler, Pennsylvania, was 53 when he died of a rare cancer with one main cause – exposure to asbestos. He was fine at Christmas 2002.