Archive for September, 2011

The government of South Korea ordered the ground at ballparks and stadiums in Busan sprayed down to prevent deadly asbestos fibers from becoming airborne, but the sporting venues will remain open for

A radical shift in the way clinical trials are conducted may be the key to getting new drugs to market, according to one researcher. This concept may especially provide a positive outlook for patients

An experimental chemotherapy treatment being investigated for benefits to pleural mesothelioma patients recently failed a Phase III trial after not achieving the required clinical significance.

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Ruth Phillips took her eight-months-to-live, mesothelioma diagnosis from one highly regarded cancer center to another — from Atlanta to New York to Washington, D.C. — and it hardly changed.

It was Mission Accomplished for a band of 50 volunteers who traveled to New York City this weekend to stand outside NBC Studios Monday morning for the popular “Today” show, making sure a

Risk of asbestos exposure in some public schools may no longer be a problem. President Obama’s proposed new jobs bill, officially titled the “American Jobs Act,” includes a measure

Merlin Olsen’s lifetime exposure to asbestos, which caused the mesothelioma cancer that eventually killed him, began as early as age 11 with a summer job on a construction site, leading to the

It won’t take long for America to know that Monday, Sept. 26, is Mesothelioma Awareness Day, not when at least 50 advocates wearing bright orange Cure Meso t-shirts gather in New York’s

While the cleanup continues and the death toll still climbs, a district court judge approved Montana’s $43 million settlement with more than 1,300 plaintiffs regarding the contamination of vermiculite