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Biotech's and tech's biggest gainers, losers last week
From June 10-14, the Nasdaq Composite index fell 1.5 percent, half a percent faster than the Standard and Poor 500.
Outrage of asbestos veterans denied compensation despite exposure on Royal Navy shipbuilding sites
Current rules mean sailors, soldiers and airmen who develop the fatal condition mesothelioma cannot get payouts from the MoD if they were exposed to asbestos before 1987 Ministers today face urgent calls to end the "outrage" of 200 military veterans being denied compensation despite developing a deadly asbestos disease after serving their country.
Corning Watch: Judge approves Pittsburgh Corning reorganization plan
The second of the major bankruptcy cases in which Corning Inc. has been involved in the past two decades appears to be inching toward a conclusion.
Wife Exposed to Asbestos Washing Clothes Wins $27 Million
For several years in the 1950s, Martin Gregg worked as an insulation installer handling Kaylo brand insulation products.
Verastem Cancer Treatment Gets European Incentives
Cancer drug developer Verastem Inc. said Thursday that its most advanced experimental treatment was awarded orphan drug status in the European Union.
Can you help with asbestos questions?
THE widow of a Portsmouth factory worker who died from an asbestos-related disease is asking his former colleagues for help.
Festival procession will remember Rex
The festival committee are paying tribute to the 74-year-old, who died of mesothelioma on Tuesday, by dedicating this year's street parade to him.
Rex Barnett and his wife of 52 years, Sandra
The festival committee are paying tribute to the 74-year-old, who died of mesothelioma on Tuesday, by dedicating this year's street parade to him.
Cancer sufferer is given compensation for illness
A FORMER engineer has won compensation after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer linked to asbestos during his time working at a Worcester factory.
Verastem directors buy $475K of stock, company set for potential pivotal trials
Westphal was one of four executives who purchased $475,000 worth of shares. Three directors of cancer drug company Verastem Inc. and its founding executive chairman have purchased $475,000 worth of the company's stock in the past week as it plans to start a potential pivotal trial against mesothelioma in coming months.
Translation of microarray data into clinically relevant cancer...
The pathological distinction between malignant pleural mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma of the lung can be cumbersome using established methods.
Verastem wins orphan status from EU for mesothelioma drug
Verastem Inc. has received orphan designation from the European Commission for its potential therapy for mesothelioma.
Deadly asbestos found in 80 per cent of schools
Information, collected via a Freedom of Information request to Warrington Borough Council , also discovered that more than 20,900 school children in the area could potentially be exposed to asbestos in their classrooms on a daily basis.
Couple gets $27M in O-I lawsuit
Rose-Marie Grigg and her current husband, Martin Grigg, were awarded a combined sum of $27.3 million from an Oakland jury last week.
Mesothelioma Chances Increase in the Downwind Direction and Closeness to the Asbestos Source
Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer that develops in the protective lining of the internal organs of the body.
Adaptive VS-6063 Phase II design
Jun 12th 2013 - Edison Investment Research today published a report on Verastem entitled "Adaptive VS-6063 Phase II Design".
A retired floor layer has died from an asbestos related disease at the age of 88.
At an inquest in Hertfordshire's Coroner Court in Hatfield today it was ruled that his death was caused by mesothelioma.
New Jersey Mesothelioma Lawyer Receives Top Rating in Mass Torts Law
Moshe Maimon, a highly-acclaimed New Jersey mesothelioma lawyer and partner at the national asbestos litigation firm Levy Phillips & Konigsberg LLP, has been recognized as a "2013 Top Rated Lawyer in Mass Torts Law" by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell, the leading lawyer rating service in the United States.
Plea to former colleagues over asbestos in buildings
Jane Merritt, 64, who worked at the Swindon Plessey MoD site and the Raychem distribution centre, was told in January 2012 that she had malignant mesothelioma, a cancer which affects the lining of the lungs.