The California Supreme Court ruled that an asbestos supplier is responsible for not warning end users about the dangers of a manufacturer’s product. William Webb sued raw asbestos supplier Special Electric Company after he was diagnosed with mesothelio…
In addition, SELLAS announced today that ZELTHERVA has been formally accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research as the proprietary name for SELLAS ‘s WT1 vaccine is a late clinical-stage cancer immu…
Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $55 million in a talcum powder case for feminine hygiene products that caused ovarian cancer.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced what labor and public health groups have spent years waiting to hear about the nation’s asbestos epidemic. “We’ve actually made the commitment that we are moving forward on a ban,” Trudeau said. “We know that its impact on workers far outweighs any benefits that it might provide.” Trudeau…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced what labor and public health groups have spent years waiting to hear about the nation’s asbestos epidemic. “We’ve actually made the commitment that we are moving forward on a ban,” Trudeau said. “We know that its impact on workers far outweighs any benefits that it might provide.” Trudeau…
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed the government is moving forward with a ban on asbestos, the nation’s leading cause of work-related deaths.
On May 20, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization working to eradicate the life-ending effects of mesothelioma, will hold a conference for patients and their loved ones in Houston to ensure that those in need are provide…
Bayer announced today that data from several studies across its oncology portfolio will be presented at the 52 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology , taking place June 3-7 in Chicago. The data represent clinical research on Bayer’s oncology products, as well as continued investigation of Xofigo injection in other areas of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer .
The avelumab presentations, from the rapidly accelerating JAVELIN clinical development program, include new study results from a number of difficult-to-treat cancers, including data from the pivotal Phase II trial of avelumab being investigated as seco…
Representatives of the charity Mesothelioma UK made a presentation at a meeting of Parliament’s All-Party Asbestos Meeting, which included Fareham MP Suella Fernandes. Miss Fernandes attended after being contacted by her constituent Anne Moylan, who wo…
$1.3M will be spent to clean up burst pipes in Framingham Schools where asbestos tiling complicated the water flooding.
TRIBUTE: Bombala High School students dressed in purple and white in memory of Joanne Joseph who recently lost her battle with cancer. On Friday, May 6 Bombala High School was awash in purple and white to raise funds on behalf of the Joseph family, in …
A Louisiana trial judge awarded $7 million to the surviving family members of a woman who died of cancer after years of laundering her husband’s asbestos-tainted clothes . Myra Williams died from mesothelioma, a disease caused exclusively by exposure t…
A new study conducted in Canada suggests that performing tests for p16 deletion and BAP1 loss may be good ways to rule out malignant mesothelioma in people suspected of having the asbestos cancer. Surviving Mesothelioma has just posted an article expla…
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