Mary Pieper

5 mins read - August 15, 2024

What if a technology could look inside the human body not just to see what our organs looked like, but to track their processes as they function? For patients of the rare, aggress...

Mary Pieper

2 mins read - August 12, 2024

A recent study provides preclinical evidence that treating pleural mesothelioma with a DNA hypomethylating agent (DHA) is an effective form of therapy.  Recently, the co-target...

Mary Pieper

2 mins read - August 12, 2024

Bloomberg reported Monday that more than 75% of the plaintiffs who filed lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson claiming that the use of asbestos-contaminated talc products resulted i...

Mary Pieper

4 mins read - August 12, 2024

A jury trial began in South Carolina this week to determine if a man’s use of asbestos-contaminated Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder was the cause of his mesothelioma.  Michael ...

Mary Pieper

5 mins read - August 5, 2024

According to an analysis performed by Mesowatch, the number of senior women in the United States dying from mesothelioma — a fatal form of cancer caused by exposure to deadly asbe...

Mary Pieper

2 mins read - July 29, 2024

A jury ordered Avon Products, Inc. to pay $24.4 million Friday to the family of a man who developed cancer decades after being exposed to asbestos-contaminated talc while working ...

Mary Pieper

3 mins read - July 25, 2024

A bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed legislation on Capitol Hill Tuesday to end the “Texas Two-Step,” a bankruptcy maneuver that Johnson & Johnson and Georgia Pacific have bee...

Mary Pieper

2 mins read - July 17, 2024

Johnson & Johnson has proposed a $505 million settlement with two bankrupt mining companies that supplied J&J with asbestos-contaminated talc for its talcum powder products.  P...

Mary Pieper

3 mins read - July 15, 2024

A federal court upheld an $8 million verdict Thursday against BNSF Railway over the deaths of two former residents of Libby, Montana, where asbestos-containing mining material was...

Mary Pieper

3 mins read - July 8, 2024

The World Health Organization on Friday stated talc is “probably carcinogenic,” based on a study by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).The study, publishe...

Mary Pieper

3 mins read - July 5, 2024

Frontiers in Oncology provisionally accepted a case report Friday suggesting the use of first-line nivolumab and ipilimumab could be more effective than chemotherapy in malignant ...

Mary Pieper

4 mins read - July 2, 2024

A scientist has scored a victory over Johnson & Johnson, which alleged her influential research linking asbestos-contaminated cosmetic products to the deadly cancer mesothelioma wa...