Copyright 2009 Medical News Today Latest Asbestos / Mesothelioma News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/asbestos/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170284.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170284.php The dangers of asbestos will be amongst the workplace hazards and health issues under the spotlight at the National Painting and Decoration Show in Coventry next week (11-12 November). The Health and Safety Executive HSE is hosting a stand at the Ricoh Arena event to promote its month-long 'Asbestos: The hidden killer' campaign, which urges tradesmen to protect themselves from breathing in the deadly fibres which they may disturb through renovation projects. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169535.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169535.php Over nearly a century, thousands of residents and workers in Libby, MT, have been exposed to asbestos-contaminated vermiculite ore, leading to markedly higher rates of lung disease and autoimmune disorders, and causing to Libby in 2002 to be added to the federal Environmental Protection Agency's "National Priorities List. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169197.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169197.php Two businesses and a company director have been fined after workers in Manchester were exposed to potentially deadly asbestos fibres. The prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) comes just days before the launch of a national £1.2 million campaign to increase awareness about asbestos among tradespeople. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166660.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/166660.php Two companies have been prosecuted after workers and members of the public were exposed to unacceptable levels of asbestos during a removal project. The Health and Safety Executive took the companies to court, on the 06 October 2009, after an unlicensed contractor carried out the specialist work at a warehouse in Brimsdown, Enfield. On 29 November 2005, Noble Gift Packaging Ltd contracted A & T Roofing Ltd to remove the roof from a building on Lockfield Avenue. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/165083.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/165083.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) expressed its deep disappointment at a decision by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to uphold a complaint about its 'Asbestos: The hidden killer' awareness campaign. The ASA has upheld one complaint from a single source challenging HSE on the numbers of workers it quoted as dying as a result of exposure to asbestos fibres. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/163211.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/163211.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning the building trade that companies and contractors will face prosecution if they remove asbestos without a licence. It follows HSE's successful prosecution of three contractors who carried out unlicensed asbestos removal at Kelford School in Rotherham in 2006. Mansell Build Ltd (previously Birse Build Ltd) of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire,was fined £12,500 and ordered to pay £12,500 costs. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161610.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161610.php A new technique may help clinicians hone in on a diagnosis in patients presenting with a pleural effusion of unknown cause. The study, led by principal investigator Y.C. Gary Lee, Ph.D., appears in the September 1 issue of the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161177.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/161177.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning employers of the need to manage asbestos at their premises after a Canadian company were prosecuted for potentially exposing employees and contractors to carcinogenic fibres at their Swansea plant. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157094.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/157094.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) warned property owners to ensure that they keep accurate records of asbestos in their buildings and pass any information on to contractors. The warning follows a serious incident in which contracted workers as well as members of the public were exposed to airborne asbestos fibres as a result of refurbishment work in council properties in Fraser Avenue, Inverkeithing in November 2007. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154619.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154619.php The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday declared its first-ever "public health emergency," asbestos contamination near Libby and Troy, Mont., northwestern mining towns, the Associated Press reports. "Asbestos contamination from a now-closed vermiculite mine has been cited in the deaths of more than 200 people and illnesses of thousands more. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148110.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/148110.php Designing a Randomized Controlled Trial for Physical Activity, Weight Control, and Breast Cancer Risk Researchers describe the rationale and a possible design for randomized controlled trials that test the impact of physical activity and weight control on breast cancer risk. Breast Cancer Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147938.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/147938.php The Environmental Information Association (EIA) and the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) today announced the development of the Chrysotile Asbestos Fact Sheet (CAFS). The EIA and ADAO concluded, along with the majority of scientific agencies, that there is sufficient evidence to support that all forms of asbestos, including chrysotile, are carcinogenic and are responsible for asbestos-related lung cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal and ovarian cancers. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145613.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/145613.php The Vermont Department of Health has found that five deaths from asbestosis during the years 1996 to 2005 among people who lived near the Vermont Asbestos Group (VAG) mine can be explained by occupational exposure to asbestos. Phone interviews with next of kin and VAG employment records have confirmed that three of the five people who died had worked at the mine, and two moved to Vermont after developing asbestosis, apparently from other work exposures. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/144780.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/144780.php The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the leading organization serving as the voice of asbestos victims, today applauded the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)'s reconfirmation this week that all commercial asbestos fibers - including chrysotile, the most commercially used form of asbestos - cause lung cancer and mesothelioma. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141541.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141541.php The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the leading organization serving as the voice of asbestos victims, celebrates the passage of S.RES.57, a resolution that declares the first week of April as "National Asbestos Awareness Week" and urges the Surgeon General to warn and educate Americans on the severe hazards of asbestos exposure. ADAO praises Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) for his work in introducing the important resolution. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141141.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141141.php One in 17 British carpenters born in the 1940s will die of mesothelioma - a cancer of the lining of the lung caused by asbestos - according to new research[1]* published in the British Journal of Cancer. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140835.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140835.php Morphotek®, Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of North America, has announced that it has commenced a multi-centered Phase II study of its MORAb-009 monoclonal antibody in mesothelioma. The study will evaluate MORAb-009, plus the chemotherapy drugs pemetrexed and cisplatinum, as a first-line treatment for patients with mesothelioma. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140859.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/140859.php Mesothelioma is a form of lung cancer that is almost always caused by asbestos exposure and is most commonly found in the outer lining of the lungs called the mesothelium. A majority of the people who develop mesothelioma contract this cancer through breathing in asbestos fibers or being exposed to asbestos dust while on the job. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138162.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138162.php The Health and Safety Executive has warned firms to properly assess risks when working with asbestos and ensure, if necessary, only licensed contractors are used. The call follows the prosecution on 4 February 2009 of Westpoint Schoolcare Ltd for breaching Regulations 5, 8(1) and 11 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138015.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138015.php The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) will host its 5th Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference in Manhattan Beach, CA., on Saturday, March 28, 2009, with activities throughout the weekend. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136661.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136661.php Four men from Texas are suing Chevron and Gulf Oil on behalf of their father who died recently of mesothelioma which is a cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Kyle, Dan, Ted and Mark Bergeron claim that their father Gliese Bergeron's disease was wrongfully caused. Gliese Bergeron died of mesothelioma on October 22, 2008. According to the lawsuit filed Dec. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136341.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136341.php The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning that firms exposing workers to asbestos would be penalised. It added that electrical contracting companies and other building and refurbishment trades must provide suitable asbestos awareness training to employees or face prosecution. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136297.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136297.php LegalView, the most informative legal resource available on the Internet, informed its mesothelioma information blog readers of a new diagnostics test that is capable of differentiating between the deadly mesothelioma cancer and other types of similar lung cancers, thus improving expediency of treatments. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136155.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/136155.php Americas Watchdog created the Mesothelioma Victims Center to be the absolute best resource & help center in the world for an individual who has been diagnosis with a lethal form of cancer called mesothelioma. According to the Americas Watchdog, "We created the Mesothelioma Victims Center so that a mesothelioma victim, or their family would not have to go through what we went through, when it was discovered that a close family member was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Asbestos / Mesothelioma Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134045.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134045.php The SimmonsCooper law firm announced today that the Mesothelioma Video Library Web site, a free educational resource for patients and families affected by mesothelioma, has been recognized by the Web Marketing Association and W3 Awards for its innovation and excellence on the web. The Mesothelioma Video Library is the first video-driven Web site to address mesothelioma and asbestos-related issues. Asbestos / Mesothelioma