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From June 10-14, the Nasdaq Composite index fell 1.5 percent, half a percent faster than the Standard and Poor 500.

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.

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.

For several years in the 1950s, Martin Gregg worked as an insulation installer handling Kaylo brand insulation products.

Cancer drug developer Verastem Inc. said Thursday that its most advanced experimental treatment was awarded orphan drug status in the European Union.

THE widow of a Portsmouth factory worker who died from an asbestos-related disease is asking his former colleagues for help.

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.

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.

A FORMER engineer has won compensation after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer linked to asbestos during his time working at a Worcester factory.

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.

The pathological distinction between malignant pleural mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma of the lung can be cumbersome using established methods.

Verastem Inc. has received orphan designation from the European Commission for its potential therapy for mesothelioma.

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.

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 is a rare form of cancer that develops in the protective lining of the internal organs of the body.

Jun 12th 2013 - Edison Investment Research today published a report on Verastem entitled "Adaptive VS-6063 Phase II Design".

At an inquest in Hertfordshire's Coroner Court in Hatfield today it was ruled that his death was caused by mesothelioma.

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.

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.