A year ago a South Korean woman, Rachel Lee, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma joined an international delegation to Canada to urge Quebec provincial officials to stop subsidizing and exporting asbestos, a known carcinogen, to Asian countries.

In 2010, a jury awarded a former oil well-worker $15.2 million, because he contracted a lung disease during his employment. Now the company ordered to pay the lawsuit, Conoco Phillips is appealing the decision.

A New Jersey recycling company was charged for illegally dumping materials containing asbestos on an upstate New York farm. According to the Wall Street Journal, Eagle recycling was fined $50,000 dollars for illegal dumping. Close to 8000 pounds ...

Rochester, NY – An Avon contractor has been indicted on multiple federal charges for improperly removing asbestos from a large warehouse in Rochester. Asbestos is known to cause mesothelioma cancer.

Over the years we've become aware of how much asbestos is in our surroundings. This naturally-occurring mineral is prized for its fire-retardant principles. Not only are we aware that asbestos is all around us but we are also aware that it causes ...

Harold Tompkins was a beloved Australian actor, most well-known in the U.S. for his role in the film Gallipoli, died after he battled the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.

Just one day after we honored the brave souls, who fought and died at Pearl Harbor, we should also reflect on the battle they still wage with mesothelioma and other diseases caused by asbestos.

Florida company, Kilibrew Inc., a construction and engineering firm presented a new technique called ‘pipe bursting’ as a method to deal with aging asbestos pipes, commonly used throughout portions of the state

Last month a fire destroyed at least six buildings in the downtown area of Minonk, IL, and took almost one hundred firefighters to put the blaze out. Now, not only do residents of the small have to grapple with the clean-up, they now have to worr ...

An undercover investigation conducted by a Virginia College student found that area asbestos-abatement companies have allegedly violated safety regulations.

The increasing numbers of natural disasters which have plagued Australia have prompted health experts to state that they can no longer consider bonded asbestos safe. At the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia’s Annual Scientific Meeting can ...

International experts convened at the second Asian Ban Asbestos Conference to encourage nations to ban the mining and exporting of asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral with fire-retardant properties which is also connected to mesothelioma cancer.

Prince William and his new wife Kate have decided where in Kensington Palace they are going to live, but they have one problem, their apartment contains cancer causing asbestos and must be removed before they can move in. William and Kate may not ...

Treating patients with mesothelioma generally requires a multi-modal approach combining surgery with chemotherapy and radiation. But for some mesothelioma patients, surgery isn’t possible based on the irregular shape of malignant tumors. Italian ...

Mesothelioma patients have some treatment options that can prolong and improve the quality of their lives, but there is no cure. Now researchers in Australia have begun researching a new immuno-therapy technique which may possibly inhibit tumor g ...

Drug shortages are impacting the health of individuals and making it difficult for doctor to get the medications needed to treat disease like mesothelioma, breast and colon cancer and childhood leukemia. The patients, who need these drugs, often ...

Berlin, Vermont. - Hurricane Irene left a great deal of destruction and flooding as she passed through New England. Especially in Berlin, Vermont, where the clean-up of a trailer park is delayed due to the presence of asbestos. More funds have to ...

Sufferers of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of lung cancer may have a new treatment opportunity available to them. Illinois-based pharmaceutical company, Pinnacle Biologics Inc., announce it has filed for Orphan Drug designation for one of its ...