Mesothelioma News

Leonard Handley, of Trent Road, Midanbury , died aged 70 at Countess Mountbatten House hospice, West End , on January 28 due to heart failure and peritoneal malignant mesothelioma.

Cinnaminson, NJ, May 21, 2013 This month, a new online resource for the people dealing with vermiculite insulation has become available.

The Long Island Rail Road must face a lawsuit by a man who worked as a cashier at a diner on its property in the 1970s and alleges he got mesothelioma from being exposed to asbestos that railroad workers brought into the eatery on their clothes, a state judge has ruled.

Even from birth, Kraus faced enormous challenges. He was the only person to be born in a Nazi forced labor camp during WWII and survive .

The partner of a Sheffield man who died from asbestos-related cancer is appealing for help about how he breathed in the deadly dust.

THE daughters of two asbestos victims have spoken out about new Government compensation plans - as they pepare to stage a charitable fundraising ball.

A Lowestoft woman who has asbestos-related cancer from dusting down and washing her husband's work clothes has won a six-figure pay-out against her spouse's former employer.

But the Plymouth Learning Trust, the Plymouth Association of Primary Heads and Plymouth City Council have stressed children and staff are not under any threat and the risks are being managed.

Effie Creswell, his partner of 34 years, is appealing for his ex-colleagues to provide information about the conditions he worked in as a labourer and general foreman in the 1970s and 80s, during which time it is thought he may have been exposed to asbestos.

Justice for thousands of asbestos-related cancer victims may be a step closer as a result of a new Bill, a North East MP has claimed Justice for thousands of asbestos-related cancer victims may be a step closer as a result of a new Bill, a North East MP has claimed.

MANY people are still being "forgotten" by a payment system which aims to help victims of a deadly asbestos-related disease, say campaigners.

But it might come as a surprise how some businessmen willfully put young labourers - college and high school students among them - in serious harm's way, and just to save a buck.

FORMER pottery worker Austin Cotton lived with prostate cancer for two years but died just two months after he was diagnosed with the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.

HAMPSHIRE families whose relatives die after asbestos exposure will be denied compensation after a Government U-turn condemned as a "disgrace". The Queen's Speech promised a Mesothelioma Bill to provide payouts to sufferers unable to trace the employer who exposed them to the deadly dust.

Rosetta Genomics Ltd. , a leading developer and provider of microRNA-based molecular diagnostics, announces receipt of $625,000 as payment in full from the negotiated settlement announced on April 18, 2013 with Sanra Laboratories in connection with the Company's sale to Sanra of Parkway Clinical Laboratories .

The Queen laid out plans to make it easier for victims of asbestos-related cancer to claim compensation in her speech on Wednesday.

John Birkett from Washington has developed mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos as an apprentice shipwright at Walker and Hebburn.

The state Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill supported by many in the medical community that would no longer require doctors to give patients as much information about available alternative treatments.

CHARITY champions are on target to raise 1,800 after getting into the running for a South Tyneside man fighting a killer disease.

More than a quarter of a million pounds of Hertsmere taxpayers' money will be put aside for potential asbestos insurance claims, politicians decided last night.