A former tradesman from the UK has expressed concern that not enough people are aware of the dangers of asbestos exposure. The sixty five year old man, Tom King, was diagnosed with the asbestos related cancer, mesothelioma, two years ago. However, although he is still alive he is unable to perform many day to day […]

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Politicians in the UK have been warned to think carefully before passing draft asbestos legislation relating to those that have contracted a benign asbestos related disease. The legislation relates to those that contract pleural plaques, which is a scarring of the lungs.
Professor Neil Douglas, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, has said […]

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A company from Painesville , Illinois , has been fined twenty five thousand dollars by the Environmental Protection Agency over asbestos related breaches, according to a recent report. The company is said to have violated air pollution laws during a project that was carried out last year in March 2007.
The report claims that the […]

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Asbestos and Mesothelioma are foreign terms for many people but unfortunately asbestos exposure is a prevalent as ever. It’s not hard to see, as a quick “Google News” search will bring up hundreds of results, many of which are recent, in which asbestos negligence is abundant.
Government regulations help but are not assisting in public awareness […]

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An appeal lodged by WR Grace in relation to asbestos related criminal charges has been rejected by the Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected last week, and related to a case where criminal charges had been brought against the firm over the release of asbestos from a mine in Libby , Montana .
WR Grace […]

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A UK law firm has recovered compensation for the family of a woman that died from an asbestos related disease as the result of washing her husband’s clothes in the 1960s. The woman suffered secondary asbestos exposure from the asbestos dust and fibers on her husband’s work clothing. The compensation amounted to one hundred […]

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A woman from the UK has won compensation after claiming that she contracted a deadly asbestos related cancer from hugging her father when she was a child. The woman, Debbie Brewer, claims that she was exposed to asbestos when she hugged her father when she was younger.
Her father worked at Devonport Dockyard in the […]

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According to a new report baseline CT screening could prove beneficial and effective in the detection of lung cancer among people that have a history of being exposed to asbestos, which is a potentially deadly substance and a known carcinogenic. Researchers state that this method of screening could benefit those at high risk of […]

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A developer in the UK has been accused of negligence for potentially exposing people to asbestos by leaving asbestos waste exposed at a site in Exeter that was being prepared for housing. Authorities heard about the asbestos risk from a local resident, who told them that the risk was at the Old Royal Naval […]

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The face of asbestos campaigning in Australia , Bernie Banton, has lost his fight against the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma, and died earlier this week. Mr Banton had been the face of asbestos campaigning for some time, but last August discovered that he had actually contracted the asbestos related cancer himself.
Bernie, who was aged […]

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An apology has been made by the Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott to asbestos campaigner Bernie Banton in Australia. Mr Banton led a group to present a petition to Mr Abbott recently, with the aim of the petition being to get subsidies on a drug used to treat asbestosis, which is a condition caused […]

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The family of a man from the UK has received a compensation payout after he died as a result of the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma. He was aged seventy five years of age when he passed away in the summer of 2005 from mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that results from exposure to […]

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A group of campaigners in Wales is aiming to overturn a recent ruling in relation to victims of asbestos related disease. The group is headed by the GMB Union and industrial solicitors, and aims to overturn a House of Lords ruling that compensation will be stopped for those suffering from pleural plaques.
In its decision […]

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