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Chaffee Crossing is a small town in Arkansas that is the site of an old U.S. army base recently swept by fire.  The destruction ranged over one hundred acres and destroyed 150 buildings.  There were no human casualties in the fire, but the buildings destroyed were almost certainly sites where asbestos insulation, plumbing fittings and [...]

Asbestos is the only known catalyst for the lethal cancer mesothelioma.  Asbestos and asbestos products have largely disappeared from the market, but it has not disappeared from millions of American homes.  The EPA treats asbestos products as an ongoing problem because removing many of them can cause exposure to deadly asbestos fibers as older asbestos [...]

A case now underway in Britain’s High Court may change fundamental liability rules with regard to asbestos exposure.  The question before the court is whether liability for asbestos-related diseases commences from the time the victim is exposed to asbestos, or when an asbestos-related disease manifests itself.
The lethal asbestos-caused cancer mesothelioma may not be diagnosed for [...]

A European drug company named MolMed has had good initial success with a medication called Arenegyr which is designed to attack malignant tumors brought on by mesothelioma.  As a result, European medical authorities have granted the drug “orphan status” in order to speed its development.  European Orphan Drug designation is granted to therapeutics intended for [...]

A group of doctors based in London have released the results of a study conducted to analyze the value of chemotherapy for patients with mesothelioma.  Specifically Richard Stephens and Professor Mahesh Parmar, Medical Research Council, Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom conducted the Cancer Research UK-funded, randomized trial involving 409 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma [...]

Construction workers and next of kin of deceased workers filed a lawsuit in Tokyo, Japan seeking damages of approximately 6.6 billion yen (about US $444 million) from the government and manufacturers related to illnesses stemming from exposure to asbestos. 178 plaintiffs including construction workers and family members filed the suit against 46 building manufacturers and [...]

Everyone, including the EPA, knows that dust from asbestos based products is going to contain asbestos fibers.  The procedures that the EPA has laid out for brake jobs in this asbestos-averse era are remarkable.   If you work or have worked in a brake shop you should check them out at the link below.
Briefly, the EPA [...]

When the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy released its first Trial Lawyers, Inc. report, in 2003, we called asbestos litigation the longest-running mass tort in U.S. history and arguably the most unjust. Even as the incidence of new cases of the serious lung cancers caused by asbestos remained constant for mesothelioma, at 2,000 to [...]

The Canadian Labor Congress is calling for a ban of all asbestos mining in Canada, even though a recent study on the cancer risks of asbestos has not yet been released.  Seven scientific and medical experts, hired by Health Canada, submitted their report examining the link between asbestos and cancer in March. However, the report [...]

The Firefighting Authority is putting into place new safety measures for handling asbestos fires, which may pose firefighters their greatest health risk. Yesterday’s fire in Keshet gave firefighters their first opportunity to try out new regulations. The firefighters used protective equipment and washed themselves afterward to minimize their exposure to asbestos.
Firefighters around [...]