Archive for August, 2011

Kathleen Mullen started making a documentary as a personal tribute to her father, as a way to honor and remember his life.

She finished the film as an indictment of the industry that killed him

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) this week joined the growing list of organizations to condemn its own ruling Conservative Party for allowing the continued mining and exporting of asbestos, the

Frank Bender, who found fame as a forensic sculptor with his knack for identifying victims of violent crimes and helping capture criminals, became the latest well-known American to die of mesothelioma.

Bender,

Anyone diagnosed with mesothelioma – the cancer caused by an exposure to asbestos – will not qualify for help under the recently-appropriated $2.8 billion federal fund supposedly designed

The Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, among others, has begun a CT lung cancer screening program, based upon a recent groundbreaking study that has shown it to be effective in early detection of the disease.

“This

It’s not often that the Red Sox, Bruins and Patriots – Boston’s three high-profile professional sports franchises – join forces like this.

But it’s also not often

The flood waters have receded and help is arriving, but the danger still lurks — albeit silent and slow — in places like Minot, North Dakota.

TheNorth Dakota Department of Health