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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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Mesothelioma Watch was created as a means to hold asbestos manufacturers and companies who forced their employees to work with and around asbestos accountable for the thousands of cases of cancer they have caused. We do this in three ways.

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FEMA Ignored Pleas for Help with Asbestos Cleanup

25 February 2009

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 [...]

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Asbestos: In Some Homes, a Clear and Present Danger

22 February 2009

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 [...]

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Mesothelioma Video

07 February 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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Court Case May Change Mesothelioma Liability Rules

21 January 2009

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 [...]

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New Meso Drug Given the Fast Track in Europe

21 January 2009

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 [...]

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UK Medical Study Shows No Value to Meso Chemotherapy

02 December 2008

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 [...]

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