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EPA finds asbestos poses cancer risks for workers, reigniting calls for ban

April 10, 2020 By Thomas Lamb

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that [ asbestos dust ] poses an unreasonable risk of [ lung cancer and mesothelioma ] to both workers and consumers who inhale it, ramping up pressure on the agency to ban the substance. In a draft risk assessment published this week, the EPA said that workers who inhale [ asbestos dust ] … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Asbestosis, Exposure, Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos dust, asbestos exposure, asbestos-related cancer, asbestos-related diseases, asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma

Montana Supreme Court: BNSF Not Shielded from Liability in Libby Asbestos Cases

March 26, 2020 By Thomas Lamb

In a unanimous decision, the Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday determined that BNSF Railway Company is not shielded from liability for its role in spreading [ asbestos dust ] in the Northwest Montana town of Libby, where hundreds of people have died and thousands more are sick due to exposure. Facing hundreds of asbestos-related damage claims … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestosis, Exposure, Law, Lawsuits, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos lawsuits, asbestos-related cancer, asbestos-related diseases, law, legal, Libby

Philly School District poised to pay $850K to teacher diagnosed with mesothelioma

March 2, 2020 By Thomas Lamb

Lea DiRusso, the career city teacher diagnosed last year with a deadly asbestos-linked cancer, is in line to be paid $850,000 by the Philadelphia School District. The school board on Thursday night will consider a resolution allowing the district “to execute, deliver, and perform a settlement agreement” with DiRusso and Amr Osman, her husband, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Claims, Exposure, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos claims, asbestos exposure, asbestos fibers, asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma, Schools, Teachers

State Proposes ‘Asbestos Watch Area’ Near Old Davidson Mill

January 22, 2020 By Thomas Lamb

State environmental officials want to designate part of the west side of Davidson as an “asbestos watch area.” But the renewed discussion about asbestos from an old factory nearby is reviving concerns among residents in the historically African American neighborhood. The neighborhood around the former Carolina Asbestos factory near downtown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Exposure Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos exposure, asbestos fibers, asbestos-related cancer, asbestos-related diseases

Powder Keg: FDA bowed to industry for decades as alarms were sounded over talc

December 9, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to discuss the best way to detect cancer-causing asbestos in talc powders and cosmetics. The “Asbestos in Talc Symposium,” sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration [ and intended to investigate asbestos in talc powders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Exposure, Mesothelioma, Talc Tagged With: asbestos-contaminated talc, asbestos-infused talc, asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma

Cancer in the classroom

November 26, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

[Lea DiRusso was exposed to asbestos while teaching at schools for nearly 30 years, then this teacher is diagnosed with mesothelioma.] Every week during the school year, teacher Lea DiRusso climbed on a chair and hung her students’ best work on a clothesline strung between two old heating pipes. As she tugged the line down to clip on artwork or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Exposure, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos exposure, asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma, Schools, Teachers

Hey, government people, have you heard about mesothelioma?

September 27, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

Just when you think it cannot become worse, it does. For many decades, we have known about the hazards of asbestos, as well as its relationship to mesothelioma and other thoracic and abdominal malignancies. We even see there is a growth industry among our friends in the legal world, with the emergence of for-profit firms apparently devoted only … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos exposure, asbestos-related cancer, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma

A Most Reckless Proposal — A Plan to Continue Asbestos Use in the United States

August 8, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

Each year, nearly 40,000 Americans die often painful, protracted deaths from diseases caused by asbestos. These deaths occur in firefighters, police officers, construction workers, miners, military veterans, shipyard workers, and maintenance workers whose exposures to asbestos are primarily occupational. Death also occurs in partners and children … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asbestos, Asbestosis, Lawsuits, Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos lawsuits, asbestos-related cancer, asbestos-related diseases, asbestosis, lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma

Malignant pleural mesothelioma: from bedside to bench and from bench to bedside

June 10, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare but very aggressive cancer of the thin tissue layer (pleura) covering the lungs. The development of MPM is strongly linked to previous exposure to the fibrous mineral asbestos, which has been widely used until the 1980s, in particular in the building industry. Although patients are generally eligible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Medicine, Mesothelioma Tagged With: asbestos-related cancer, malignant mesothelioma, malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), mesothelioma, mesothelioma diagnosis, mesothelioma treatments

NIOSH considers mesothelioma registry; seeks input

May 28, 2019 By Thomas Lamb

The [ National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ] is gauging the feasibility of a national [ mesothelioma registry ] intended to track cases of mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer linked to on-the-job exposure to asbestos. According to a Request for Information published in the April 8 Federal Register, the agency is asking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Case Reports, Facts, Mesothelioma, Uncategorized Tagged With: asbestos exposure, asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

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