Nearly every contractor in the U.S. knows that asbestos was used for decades in thousands of building products. Those same contractors also understand that asbestos is a hazardous material that should be handled with care and that all exposure to asbestos …
Sometimes, the world seems to be losing the war against cancer, with seemingly more and more people being struck by the disease each year. Even the quest for new and better treatments appears stalled as well. But researchers say that’s not the case. As a …
In a country that has the highest rate of mesothelioma in the world, scientists at a university in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, are working on what they are referring to as a new strategy for mesothelioma treatment. In a story on Yahoo7 …
The family of a Bloomington, Illinois man who died of asbestos-related cancer was awarded $1.4 million by a jury this week. According to an article in the Bloomington Pantagraph, the family of Jake Lilienthal sued GM&O Railroad – which operates rail …
In the western U.S., naturally-occurring asbestos isn’t unusual and it usually doesn’t present a problem. But in northeastern Washington, not far from the city of Bellingham, residents are concerned because asbestos from a nearby mountain is washing into a …
Two men from Herkimer County, New York will be doing some jail time after they ignored federal and state rules pertaining to the disposal of asbestos-containing materials. In a courtroom overseen by U.S. District Judge David Hurd, Dominick Mazza was …
A Detroit area man will spend the next 365 days staring at the walls of a federal prison for his role in exposing workers and others to toxic asbestos fibers. According to a story aired on CBS 62 – Detroit, Anthony M. David, age 34, of Canton, Michigan has …
Verastem Inc. recently announced that they have received orphan drug status from the European Commission for a new drug that has been designed to treat mesothelioma. The goal of orphan status, both in Europe and in the United States, is to encourage the …
In a press release published earlier this week, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) pronounced that it could not support the new “Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013” until significant changes are made to protect the public from …
With a group of doctors recently in the news complaining about the high cost of new cancer drugs, others say it’s actually time we spend more money on those drugs because they truly bring down the cost of cancer care overall, often eliminating the need for …
When it came time to remove asbestos-containing materials from the now-defunct Nestle plant in Fulton, New York, there was a right way to do it and a wrong way. Plant owner Edward Palmer chose the wrong way. According to an account in the Syracuse Post- …
Last week, state and federal environmental agencies raided the Hilton Center in Rensselaer, New York, prompted by suspicions that “asbestos-related projects” carried out at the industrial park during the last five years may have involved illegally handling …
Australia’s major provider of cable and mobile phone service, Telstra, has come under fire as the company works to prepare underground pipes and pits currently used by copper phone lines to house its fiber-optic cables, making way for the new National …
Experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are already warning residents of Moore, Oklahoma that the debris left behind after this week’s killer tornado could be hazardous to their health. EPA spokesman Chris Whitley told the media that …
A French Socialist party leader who was charged with manslaughter related to the death of thousands of French citizens who were exposed to asbestos has been cleared of the charges by an upper-level court. The decision paves the way for Martine Aubry to re- …
Two separate recent studies have addressed two common aspects of cancer care, raising questions about whether the protocols for treating patients with the disease may need to change in the near future, both lessening side effects and lowering patient costs …
A professor of geography and planning at the California State University at Chico told the school newspaper this week that he’s still concerned about the presence of asbestos in aging Butte Hall, despite the fact that the Division of Occupational Safety …
Throughout the last few decades, as more and more sophisticated drugs are developed to fight cancers of all types, the prices of these drugs continue to rise. Now, specialists who are disgusted at the high cost of these medications are joining together and …
The old Wetmore Elementary School in Utica, New York has sat abandoned for nearly 20 years, waiting for the day when someone would find a new use for the 1900s-era school building. Now, school district officials say thieves who entered the school to steal …
Customers who store their items in two storage sheds at the decommissioned K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in Marquette County, Michigan may not be able to retrieve their items for quite some time now that asbestos has been discovered at the two 40,000-square- …
