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- South Africa: Govt, Mines Agree to Compensate Ex-Mineworkers Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 2:27AMThe Department of Health is to sign an agreement with the Chamber of Mines and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) to kick-start a project to benefit former mineworkers who are seeking compensation for occupational lung diseases.
- Worker lung health partnership to meet Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 12:50PMEVELETH — The Minnesota Taconite Workers Lung Health Partnership will be meeting at 2 p.m. June 12 at the Joe Begich Building of theIron Range Resources agency for an update on studies and other information.
- Nanotube Workers Could Face Same Risk as Asbestos Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 12:27PMNanotubes -- the super-small, high-strength carbon fibers increasingly being deployed as static charge conductors in computers, strengtheners in composites for auto bodies, and electrical brushes -- are potentially as dangerous as asbestos, a team of scientists warned Tuesday. Injected into mice, nanotubes triggered the kind of cellular reaction that typically leads to the fatal cancer ...
- Nanotube Workers Could Face Same Risk as Asbestos Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 12:12PM Nanotubes -- the super-small, high-strength carbon fibers increasingly being deployed as static charge conductors in computers, strengtheners in composites for auto bodies, and electrical brushes -- are potentially as dangerous as asbestos, a team of scientists warned Tuesday.
- Carbon Nanotubes - Researchers Find Asbestos Cancer Link Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 7:48AMA link between carbon nanotubes and the type of cancer caused by asbestos has been drawn by scientists.
- Media Advisory: May 19 Briefing on Asbestos Legislature Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 6:53PM Congresswoman Lois Capps and the staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee organized a briefing for key staff members of the House, on the critical need for legislation to ban asbestos.
- 1.5m workers facing cancer threat: ACTU Monday, April 28, 2008 @ 8:49PMThe Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) says 1.5 million Australians may be exposed to varying levels of cancer-causing substances at work.
- Uganda: Budo Fire Survivors Need Asbestos Tests Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 5:15PMWhile the country is still grappling with the fire tragedy that took away lives of 18 pupils of Budo Junior and injured many others, there is now also another danger lurking in the aftermath of the inferno.
- [Campus] House votes to give University money for mesothelioma research Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 3:08AMThe Minnesota House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday to give $4.9 million to the University to study a rare but deadly form of cancer, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty has already threatened a veto. The research will include a collaborative between ...
- Gravel has residents uneasy Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 12:18AMn Rock used for roads, baseball fields contains a mineral that officials say may cause cancer
- North Dakota gravel sparks fears Saturday, April 5, 2008 @ 5:00AMThe sounds of children playing baseball has been silenced at one ball field in this western North Dakota city. Officials fear the ground itself is simply too unsafe. The ballpark, one of two in this town of about 700 people, is covered with crushed gravel containing erionite, a mineral found in the chalky white rock mined from the nearby Killdeer Mountains. The rock, used for decades on ...
- Mesothelioma Victim Wins $20 Million Verdict in Asbestos Lawsuit Announces Baron & Budd, P.C. Wednesday, March 12, 2008 @ 10:38AMThe law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C. today announced a $20 million civil verdict in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of Joan Mahoney, 69-year-old victim of mesothelioma, a painful and debilitating form of cancer affecting the lining of the lungs, and Daniel Mahoney, her husband of 42 years. The jury attributed 30% of the $20 million liability to defendant Georgia Pacific Corp.
- Mesothelioma Victim Wins $20 Million Verdict in Asbestos Lawsuit Announces Baron & Budd, P.C. Wednesday, March 12, 2008 @ 8:30AM SAN FRANCISCO----The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C. today announced a $20 million civil verdict in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of Joan Mahoney, 69-year-old victim of mesothelioma, a painful and debilitating form of cancer affecting the lining of the lungs, and Daniel Mahoney, her husband of 42 years.
- Workers Ignorant About Asbestos Danger Friday, February 22, 2008 @ 4:50AMBuilders, gasfitters and other tradesmen and women have an "alarming" ignorance of the risks posed by asbestos, according to a new report. The British Lung Foundation said a survey of 400 workers showed that only one in eight knew that exposure to asbestos could be fatal.
- Pleural plaques campaigners want action over asbestos Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 2:37PMCampaigners are stepping up pressure on the government to reintroduce the right to compensation for victims of asbestos exposure after it was revealed that some senior civil servants dismissed resulting diseases as being as harmful “as freckles”.
- Asbestos sufferers attend protest Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 3:10AMPeople from Merseyside suffering from the effects of asbestos exposure are attending a protest in London.
- Should vaccines be mandated? Thursday, December 13, 2007 @ 3:10PM
- Local News Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 11:10PMAdam Kunkel gets set at the starting blocks for a race.
- Despite the shelter, houseplants still face a barrage of challenges Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 11:08PMHow are your indoor plants doing? I mean the ones you brought in from the garden this fall, in hopes they would stay healthy long enough to go back outside in the spring.
- YOUR HEALTH: Measles deaths down 91 percent in Africa since 2000 due to vaccination campaign Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 11:02PMCAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Africa has slashed deaths from measles by 91 percent since 2000 with an immunization drive, a rare success story for the continent, health officials said Thursday.
- Family, friends say goodbye to guitarist Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 11:02PMHundreds of family, friends and fans paid their last respects to a Middletown-born guitarist who passed away unexpectedly while on tour.
- Dubai rulers let Geo go on air Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 10:52PMISLAMABAD: The authorities of Dubai Media City (DMC) and IMC Dubai have restored the Geo News channel immediately and asked the administration of the channel to start telecasting its programmes from the facility in the DMC from Thursday midnight.
- Rubble Trouble Thursday, November 29, 2007 @ 3:19AMThe local landfill deals with filthy stuff, obviously. But while some kinds of trash are simply slimy, others are downright dangerous.
- Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Provides Year End 2007 Pipeline Update and Outlines 2008 Key Business Objectives Monday, November 26, 2007 @ 7:00AM BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.----Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today provided an overview of recent advances in its clinical development stage programs and announced its 2008 key business objectives for these programs.
- Report results reassuring Friday, November 23, 2007 @ 4:06PMFor a community deeply uneasy about the health impacts of environmental pollutants, the findings of a new health report should be somewhat reassuring.
