Each year in the US, almost 3000 people will get a rare kind of cancer called mesothelioma. Regularly attributed to asbestos exposure sometime in the distant past, this variety of cancer can take d...
Mesothelioma is a rare yet deadly cancer that almost always surfaces in a malignant form and results in tumors on significant organs of the body. Most people believe mesothelioma is a cancer of the...
September 26, 2009 marked the 5th annual Mesothelioma Awareness Day, and each year more and more states participate. This year, New Jersey Senator Tom Kean moves for an official recognition of Sep...
Earlier this year, ABC reporter Matt Peacock published his book Killer Company: James Hardie Exposed. The book centers on James Hardie, a major industrial company responsible for numerous asbestos...
Next Saturday September 26, 2009 marks the 4th annual Mesothelioma Awareness Day. Radio stations across the country will be playing music by Warren Zevon, a singer/songwriter who died of the dea...
An article in the July 2009 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association set out to quantify the number of mesothelioma deaths in the U.S.
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People living near W.R. Grace’s former Zonolite factory in Spokane are having their yards tested for asbestos with new technology that can detect the presence of asbestos fibers at lower levels tha...
The mesothelioma symptoms are too slow and gradual years to surface. Early medical tests to confirm the etymology of the mesothelioma symptoms can be years of your life, and can even offer you a hi...
Mesothelioma Prognosis: For many asbestosis patients the mesothelioma prognosis is maybe hopeful. Study indicate the epithelial cell type have been associated more often with a favorable prognosis....
Providing an insight into the principles of Change Management, QBE’s latest Issues Forum considers how organisations can make change work positively for them so that not only can proposals be drive...
Mesothelioma is a form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos is made up of tiny fibers, often used to make insulation in homes, schools and other buildings etc. This disease attacks th...
In response to the health risks posed by asbestos exposure, some countries have
imposed strict regulations and adopted bans, whereas other countries have intervened less and continue
to use varying...
An informative description of the causes of mesothelioma, diagnostic studies used in the medical evaluation of mesothelioma, and the medical and surgical options for treating mesothelioma.
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rapidly fatal asbestos-associated malignancy
with a median survival time of < 1 year following diagnosis. Treatment strategy is determined
in part using kn...
Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), with their unique physicochemical and
mechanical properties, have many potential new applications in medicine and industry. There has
been great concern subse...