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Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy
 
Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

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 the [...]

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Libby Montana: A Long Road to Recovery

12 December 2009

Libby, Montana, a small town sprung up in a beautiful valley around the Kootenai River, has been dealing with asbestos contamination for more than half a century now. The town’s toxicity was caused by a vermiculite mining operation, a mineral used in the manufacture of insulation and fire retardant materials throughout the twentieth century, whose [...]

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Palliative Care Options Conference in San Diego Next Week

05 December 2009

A Palliative Care Options conference will be hosted in San Diego, California, on Tuesday the 8th of December, next week at the Town & Country Resort and Convention Center. The convention will discuss supportive care options for patients of mesothelioma. Supportive care, or palliative care, refers to treatments and practices for decreasing pain and improving [...]

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Mother of Youngest UK Mesothelioma Victim Searches for Answers

26 November 2009

Leigh Carlisle became the UK’s youngest mesothelioma victim in August of last year. It’s still undetermined exactly how or when she was exposed to the deadly asbestos fibers that caused her death. Mesothelioma is often thought of as a disease diagnosed exclusively in the elderly, but the fact is that asbestos was used as an [...]

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United Kingdom: asbestos related deaths on the rise

20 November 2009

Mesothelioma and other asbestos related illnesses are a serious problem in just about every industrialized nation, and diagnoses continue to increase worldwide. Even though mesothelioma diagnoses are climbing dramatically both in the Unites States and abroad, readily available treatment options fail to substantially curb the very poor prognosis of the disease. The Health and Safety Administration [...]

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Australian Experts Discover Breakthrough Mesothelioma Treatment

14 November 2009

A new radiotherapy technique has been discovered by researchers at the Austin Health Centre in Victoria, Australia. The radiotherapy is said to improve the life expectancy of mesothelioma sufferers, which, sadly, is often around just two years from diagnosis. For seven years Dr. Malcolm Feigen, an Austin Health Centre Radiation Oncologist, has been researching and developing [...]

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Mesothelioma

07 August 2009

The Face Of The Asbestos Epidemic This short film was produced to raise awareness of the issues surrounding mesothelioma. It includes interviews with people who have the disease. Although the participants of this film live in the U.K. the stories are no different than those of victims and families suffering here in the United States. The [...]

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