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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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Navy Veterans High Risk Candidates for Mesothelioma

02 August 2008

Asbestos was a critical element of shipbuilding for many years.  Mesothelioma is the lethal cancer associated with exposure to asbestos fiber – a disease than has a latency factor of 20 to 50 years.  As a result, the disease has lately become an emerging factor among those who worked in and around ships during the [...]

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Mesothelioma Foundation Seeks Pentagon Funding

27 July 2008

The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is leading a charge on the Pentagon budget for money to fund meso research. Their reasoning is simple:  according to a Capitol Hill newsletter,  “…at least one-third of the people suffering from mesothelioma – a lethal form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure — have either been in the Navy [...]

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British Parliament Acts to Protect Mesothelioma Family Victims

19 July 2008

In the United States, the rate of fatality among mesothelioma patients is two to three thousand a year.  The UK nearly matches that rate: British mesothelioma deaths occur at the rate of about 2,000 per year.   In both countries it has been established that family members of individuals who have been repeatedly exposed to asbestos [...]

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Mesothelioma Exposure – What about the Families?

14 July 2008

Mesothelioma is a particularly aggressive form of cancer that in more than four out of five cases attacks the lungs.  It has become a well-known disease over the last three decades because it is most often caused by exposure to asbestos and because of its lethal nature.  Perhaps the most unusual property affecting the link [...]

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San Francisco Mesothelioma Victim Wins $20 Million Lawsuit

03 July 2008

A San Francisco jury has awarded a $20 million damages verdict to a woman who was exposed to asbestos while working with her husband in their home remodeling business.  Mrs. Joan Mahoney was awarded the judgment after suing a number of defendants including Georgia Pacific, the corporation who produced a joint compound that contained asbestos [...]

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Asbestos Disclosure in Home Inspections

28 June 2008

Asbestos was a popular ingredient in hundreds of home construction products through about 1975, when asbestos was identified as the source of mesothelioma and other respiratory afflictions.  The use of asbestos in construction materials has been almost entirely phased out, but millions of homes in this country still contain materials that have asbestos as a [...]

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