Tag: Mesothelioma News

Brian McConnell’s wife Marion and daughter Josie Barac remember the respected drug law reformer after he died of Mesothelioma. If you see any accidents or have any info on the morning commute, let us know whenever it is safe to do so.

Youssef Cohen, 68, sits while undergoing cancer treatment as his wife Lindsay Wright looks on, on March 17, 2016 in New York City. Cohen 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.

Many mesothelioma patients avoid surgery for fear it will degrade their quality of life. But a study has found just the opposite: Patients who underwent an operation called pleurectomy and decortication (PD) generally reported their quality of life imp…

Although surgery can prolong the lives of patients with an aggressive type of cancer called malignant pleural mesothelioma, many patients avoid the operation for fear it will degrade their quality of life. But a study led by a Loyola Medicine thoracic …

You are much more likely to die from lung diseases here than in wealthier parts of London, with Mayor Sadiq Khan blaming air pollution inequality. Newham residents have more than double the chance of dying from COPD than those in Kensington and Chelsea…

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA’s new Silica Rule will have a lasting effect on nearly 2.3 million workers and over 675,000 employers. The chances are high that the new Silica Rule will affect your business and may require you to implement new policies and programs to protect your employees’ safety.

ASCO 2016: SELLAS Life Sciences Group Announces Exciting Results For Galinpepimut-S, The Company’s WT1 Vaccine, In Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia And Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma , As Presented At The 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting /PRNewswire/ — SELLAS Life Sciences Group , a development-stage biopharmaceutical company with its main focus on developing innovative products to treat cancer, today announced that promising results from a Phase 2 trial of galinpepimut-S, the Company’s WT1 cancer vaccine, in patients with acute myeloid leukemia were presented in an oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology , being held in .

Aduro Biotech, Inc. today announced the presentation of updated data from an ongoing Phase 1b clinical trial of its immunotherapy product candidate CRS-207 in combination with pemetrexed and cisplatin as front-line treatment for patients with unresecta…

A jury has awarded $8.75 million to a 65-year-old man who has incurable cancer as a result of asbestos exposure in the 1970s. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that David Hoff’s attorneys say the former construction worker’s mesothelioma was caused by a wallboard product that became airborne when it was sanded down.

Veterans from all branches of the military were once at risk of asbestos exposure. Even today, asbestos exposure remains an issue in the military, although it’s much less likely for those currently in service to come into contact with the harmful mineral.