The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) issued the following statement today from ADAO President/CEO and Co-Founder Linda Reinstein: “ADAO shares the horror of other asbestos victims groups, doctors, engineers, scientists, labour leaders, and public health organizations at the Zimbabwean government’s announcement to craft a revival plan for the Shabanie and Mashaba asbestos mines… Asbestos / [...]
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Statement From The ADAO Regarding International Joint Opposition Letter To Zimbabwean Government On Re-Opening Of Asbestos Mines
November 8, 2011
Avoid Asbestos, Insulation And Lead Dust Exposure During Storm Cleanup
November 5, 2011
Cleaning up storm-damaged buildings can create serious health and environmental hazards, the Alabama Department of Public Health cautions. Buildings that have been damaged can produce a range of materials that may be hazardous including asbestos, home or industrial cleaning products, insulation, old lead paint and other materials that may contain lead… Asbestos / Mesothelioma News [...]
Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Should Not Be Subjected To Radical Lung-Removing Surgery Say Physicians
November 5, 2011
International mesothelioma experts gathered at the 1st International Symposium on Lung-Sparing Therapies for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) on Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Santa Monica, CA. A wide range of medical specialists reviewed information from a variety of U.S. centers as well as from the recently concluded Mesothelioma And Radical Surgery (MARS) trial from the [...]
Combination Therapy Shows Promise For Rare, Deadly Cancer Caused By Asbestos
November 4, 2011
Pleural mesothelioma patients who undergo lung-sparing surgery in combination with photodynamic therapy (PDT) show superior overall survival than patient treated using the conventional therapy of extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) (or en bloc removal of the lung and surrounding tissue) with PDT, indicates new research from the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the U… [...]
Nanotubes Could Pose Health Risk To Production Line Staff, Study Suggests
November 2, 2011
Tiny fibres used to strengthen everyday products such as bicycle frames and hockey sticks could pose health hazards to those involved in their manufacture. Certain types of carbon nanotubes – cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair – could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University of Edinburgh researchers [...]
Health Risk Posed By Nanotubes
October 25, 2011
Tiny fibres used to strengthen items such as bike frames and hockey sticks could pose risks to workers who make them. Certain types of carbon nanotubes – cylindrical molecules about one-thousandth of the width of a human hair – could cause cancer in the lining of the lung, University research shows… Asbestos / Mesothelioma News [...]
Mesothelioma Patients’ Lives Extended Years In Study
October 24, 2011
Physicians at the University of Pennsylvania may have found a way to increase the lifespan of mesothelioma patients. These findings came from a study published in the June 2011 issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and were largely unexpected given that the original purpose of the study was to see if intraoperative photodynamic therapy [...]
Link Between Asbestos And Genetic Mutation
October 24, 2011
Mice inhabiting a northern town of Israel known for its high concentration of asbestos-contaminated dust, have a higher level of genetic somatic mutations, compared with other regions where asbestos pollution levels are lower. This has been shown in a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo and Dr. Uri Shanas of the University of [...]
$3.58 Million Gift Will Forward Scientific Advances For Mesothelioma Research, One Of The Most Difficult To Treat Cancers
October 23, 2011
The UH Cancer Center has received a $ 3.58 million gift from an anonymous donor to support the mesothelioma research of Dr. Michele Carbone, director of the UH Cancer Center. Carbone and colleagues, who include Drs. Haining Yang and Giovanni Gaudino, have made a series of recent scientific breakthroughs that will lead to new ways [...]
