A GRIEVING widow is appealing to former employees of the Tunnel Cement Works in West Thurrock to help find out where and how her husband was exposed to asbestos. Great grandfather Cornelius King died in April 2013 at the age of 76 from mesothelioma, wh…
Dozens of groups are pressing Ottawa to join more than 50 countries in banning asbestos, a move the Liberal Party supported while in opposition. A letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this month notes that Canada still allows the use of asbesto…
Individuals suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder are unable accurately to assess risk. They think that if something is dangerous-such as radiation or germs-then it is always dangerous, no matter how much of it, or how little of it, they encounter.
About 200 Chicago Public Schools face the threat of asbestos health hazards inside their buildings.
Students returned to Oak View Elementary in California after the school shut for a $6 million asbestos abatement.
A handbook for people affected by an asbestos-related cancer is being launched in advance of the 20th anniversary of a landmark legal case involving a Leeds woman. It was April 2, 1996, when the legal proceedings started by June Hancock came to an end …
The lawsuit was filed by a man and his family before he died from asbestos exposure that resulted in him developing mesothelioma. The man worked in Port Hueneme in California for over 25 years, and his family believes exposure to asbestos dusts from th…
They now have a $39.00 price target on the stock. They wrote, “We anticipate data from the Ph2 tazemetostat trial in NHL will be the main driver of the stock.
HBO will air the stand-up comedian’s one-hour special later this spring. His mesothelioma diagnosis will likely raise awareness of the disease.
Quincy Jones, a Los Angeles-based comedian who has terminal cancer, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Monday , where the talk show host revealed she’ad convinced HBO to air an hour-long stand-up special starring Jones himself. The comedian had previ…
Michael and Camille Geraldi met in the gastroenteritis ward of Miami Children’s Hospital in 1972. He was a pediatrician, she was a nurse who was cradling a terminally ill infant in Room 238.
The collaboration between Genisphere LLC, provider of the 3DNAA drug delivery platform, and the PDT is a complementary treatment option that can be added to surgery for removal of residual cancer. Photosensitizing drugs are administered to patients pri…
Mesothelioma specialist Dr. Dan Sterman says the clinical trial promises to extend patients’ lives and improve their quality of life.
Anticancer vaccines have been picking up steam lately, with the ongoing study of various platforms like live tumor cell vaccines . This technology relies on taking tumor cell lines and modifying them so they can be transplanted into a patient to promot…
WARREN RUDA / THE CITIZENS’ VOICE Rubble remains at the Huber Breaker site last summer. The Department of Environmental Protection announced Monday that asbestos fibers were present in five samples taken on March 8, near the old boiler building at the …