Archive for February, 2012

For almost two decades now, Robert Cameron, M.D., has touted the pleurectomy/decortication surgical procedure for patients with pleural mesothelioma.

He even created his own forum to promote

Patients with lung, colon, ovarian and pancreatic cancers required more doctor visits to get a referral to an oncologist compared to patients with other cancers, a new UK study finds.

The report,

There was some promising research uncovered, a $9 million jury award, more asbestos headaches for Halliburton, and dock workers in Malta filing liability claims in New York, all at the Mesothelioma

A motion to withdraw the government’s offer of a $58 million loan guarantee to revitalize the asbestos mining industry in Canada was dropped this week because of a lack of support in the Quebec

A group of past and present Halliburton shareholders filed a legal brief this week with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas, asking that the company’s latest efforts to minimize its asbestos

An FDA approved drug commonly used for malaria and rheumatoid arthritis showed considerable promise recently in improving the effectiveness of treatments already being used to fight malignant mesothelioma

The heirs of dockyard workers from the small Mediterranean country of Malta are filing liability claims in New York against American companies that provided asbestos products for U.S. Navy ships.

Many

The family of John Bristow won a $9.18 million award in a Newport News, Virginia, asbestos case on Friday. The jury decided that John Crane Inc. was ultimately liable for Bristow contracting mesothelioma.

Bristow,

Stephen M. Levin, M.D. will not be forgotten anytime soon.

Levin, the New York City occupational specialist who carried the health-care torch for the 9/11 First Responders, will be honored Tuesday,