Monthly Archives: October 2010

A New York businessman has pleaded guilty in federal court to failing to conduct an inspection before an asbestos removal project, exposing workers and neighbors to deadly asbestos fibers. Breathing asbestos is linked to development…

Doctors are of two minds about which surgical approach is preferable for patients with mesothelioma, according to Dr. Raja Flores, chief of thoracic surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. Mesothelioma is a cancer…

Patients with advanced mesothelioma that is inoperable are often treated with a regimen of chemotherapy such as cisplatin and pemetrexed. But if the powerful chemotherapy drugs don’t slow the cancer’s growth, what then? Researchers are…

A federal jury in Utica, N.Y. this week convicted Certified Environmental Services, two senior managers and one employee of conspiring to falsify asbestos inspection reports and concealing incomplete asbestos removal work at schools, homes and…

Yvonne Moaby did not have a factory job that brought her into contact with asbestos. She was a housewife in the Cotswalds area of Great Britain. Yet, Mrs. Moaby, who had been healthy and fit…