Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - July 19, 2021

According to his estate’s attorneys, the factory had Mitchell “spending several hours every week cutting rope packing with a band saw, which threw asbestos particles in the air.”Ac...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - July 19, 2021

Two more employees of an embattled asbestos handling service plead guilty pleas to having conspired to violate federal laws and state regulations in illegally removing asbestos at ...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - July 19, 2021

The U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Energy has passed the bill that seeks to give financial incentives and reliefs to homeowners for the removal of asbestos and lead from ...

Cameron Ayers

4 mins read - July 19, 2021

This new rule on asbestos reporting comes as a result of the settlement reached by a coalition of 11 state attorneys general in the U.S.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) un...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - July 18, 2021

Amanpour says she made her diagnosis public not only for transparency but also to highlight the importance of an early diagnosis and to “urge women to educate themselves on this di...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - April 27, 2021

A new asbestos trust worth an estimated $610 million is forming in the wake of a glass bottling company’s bankruptcy proceedings.Ohio-based O-I Glass announced a plan April 26 to e...

Cameron Ayers

2 mins read - April 23, 2021

Europe is poised to see a new first-line therapy for mesothelioma after getting the green light from a medical review agency.A division of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) — whi...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - April 23, 2021

EPA’s long-used method of dealing with asbestos-contaminated sites — burying it in sludge to prevent the cancerous fibers from becoming airborne — could carry serious repercussions...

Cameron Ayers

3 mins read - April 22, 2021

The Canadian government plans to impose new restrictions on certain talc products following an exhaustive government report that concluded it could be dangerous.A final screening a...

Cameron Ayers

2 mins read - April 21, 2021

Researchers have uncovered a potentially important diagnostic tool in battling mesothelioma: DNA sequencing.DNA affected by mesothelioma exhibits a distinct pattern after sequencin...

Cameron Ayers

2 mins read - April 19, 2021

A talc producer must pay $4.8 million to a veteran afflicted with mesothelioma after a California jury found it responsible for his asbestos-related disease.Willie McNeal Jr., 78, ...

Cameron Ayers

2 mins read - April 16, 2021

A Scottish research team has devised a novel way of detecting mesothelioma from among the hundreds of lung scans radiologists read every day: train a computer to do it for them.A p...