Topic: Asbestos

Leslie Controls, a manufacturer that supplied asbestos-containing gaskets and valves to the U.S. Navy from the 1940s until the 1980s, has created a fund to compensate Navy veterans who were harmed by asbestos disease. Breathing…

Many New York firefighters and police know the name Dr. Stephen M. Levin and his advocacy for their health. Dr. Levin focused early attention on the adverse health effects and respiratory disease that first responders…

The dean of Medicine at McGill University said in a statement Thursday that the prestigious Canadian research university will conduct a preliminary inquiry into accusations that a McGill researcher had allowed his research to be…

New York Public Advocate Bill de Blasio urged New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration to reconsider a decision not to undertake a thorough study of cancer rates among NY police officers who worked at Ground…

The president of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization said that she was appalled by a recent U.S. government report showing a dramatic increase in asbestos imports into the United State in 2011. Asbestos, a mineral…