Asbestos has an appealing characteristic: It can prevent fires. Many businesses relied on the mineral for decades as an insulant. Baking and cooking was no exception. Asbestos can also cause mesothelioma, meaning bakers and cooks were at risk daily. Mesothelioma is a rare disease affecting...
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Think of T-cells like an animal protecting their territory. They’re the body’s top defense mechanism, effective at evicting intruders. However, they’re often ineffective at...
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Mesothelioma patients have just a few universally approved treatment options. Not long ago, they had even fewer. Extrapleural pneumonectomy was the lone surgical option for years....
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Asbestos is a dangerous attacker if only because it infiltrates the body without detection. It’s invisible to the naked eye and is just about everywhere — in homes, schools...
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Each year, the U.S. News & World Report online news source ranks the top hospitals in the country. The list of 21, which the website calls the “Honor Roll,” intends to...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a medical device, NovoTTF-100L System, for treating mesothelioma. The acceptance of the tumor treating fields device was...
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Let’s play a mesothelioma word association game. If I say “mesothelioma,” then a natural response you or anyone else can make is “asbestos.” It’s simple: Asbestos is a...
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Clinical trials involving immunotherapy are standard in the mesothelioma treatment world. Another one just finished the first phase of testing — and showed hope for pleural...
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According to multiple reports, the cause-and-effect relationship between Johnson & Johnson and mesothelioma is now the center of a criminal investigation. Bloomberg cited...
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For decades, the main avenues for curing mesothelioma involved chemotherapy and surgery. In recent years, emerging methods such as immunotherapy and gene therapy offered patients...
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A town the size of Libby, Montana, shouldn’t be the epicenter of anything. With roughly 2,700 people as of 2017, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town isn’t...
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