The general public knows that asbestos is dangerous. The cancer-causing mineral should be extinct in commercial goods, yet stories of contamination continue to surface. The latest troubling report is about asbestos found in a children’s toy makeup kit. The Environmental Working Group (EWG)...
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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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The Environmental Protection Agency’s wishy-washy attitude toward banning asbestos is now the subject of a lawsuit. According to The Hill, a political news website, 11 attorneys...
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Learning you have mesothelioma is unquestionably a negative experience. In fact, many patients and survivors of the disease consider that doctor visit or phone call to be the...
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Unfortunately, there are quite a few misconceptions regarding mesothelioma, the rare and aggressive disease caused by asbestos exposure. Some people ask, “Is mesothelioma...
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