Lobbyists push use of deadly asbestos in developing nations
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Quoted from http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/21/97625/lobbyists-push-use-of-deadly-asbestos.html
Lobbyists push use of deadly asbestos in developing nations
MCT
By Jim Morris | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
WASHINGTON — A global network of lobby groups has spent nearly $100 million since the mid-1980s to preserve the international market for asbestos, a known carcinogen that’s taken millions of lives and is banned or restricted in […]
Asbestos’ U.S. legacy may be half-million deaths
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Quoted from http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/21/97624/asbestos-us-legacy-may-be-half.html
Asbestos’ U.S. legacy may be half-million deaths
Anthophyllite asbestos fibers viewed through an electron microscope. | U.S. Geological Survey
By Jim Morris | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
WASHINGTON — The first sign of trouble came as Bill Rogers was mowing his lawn one January morning in 2007. “As I would go back and forth with […]
Asbestos still killing families, decades later
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010Quoted from http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/21/97843/asbestos-still-killing-families.html
Asbestos still killing families, decades later
Julie Gundlach plays with her daughter, Madeline Young, 7, at their home in St. Louis. Gundlach has mesothelioma. | Derik Holtmann/Belleville News-Democrat/MCT
By Brian Brueggemann | Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat
EDWARDSVILLE — Growing up, the laundry room in Julie Gundlach’s home doubled as a playroom.
And that’s where the 39-year-old figures she […]
WR Grace Co. responsible for over 400 deaths in Montana town due to asbestos
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Quoted from http://www.examiner.com/x-29099-Grand-Rapids-Public-Health-Examiner~y2010m7d6-WR-Grace-Co-responsible-for-over-400-deaths-in-Montana-town-due-to-asbestos
WR Grace Co. responsible for over 400 deaths in Montana town due to asbestos
July 6, 10:33 AM
Grand Rapids Public Health Examiner
Nancy Zielinski
Health workers are saying that the W.R. Grace vermiculite mines are responsible for at least 400 deaths in Libby, Montana, due to asbestos contamination. Montana’s congressional delegation is looking to the US […]
Aircraft maintenance and mesothelioma
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Quoted from http://www.ijoem.com/article.asp?issn=0019-5278;year=2010;volume=14;issue=1;spage=24;epage=24;aulast=Bianchi
Aircraft maintenance and mesothelioma
LETTER TO EDITOR
Year : 2010 | Volume : 14 | Issue : 1 | Page : 24
Claudio Bianchi, Tommaso Bianchi
Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer-Italian League against Cancer, Monfalcone Hospital, Monfalcone - 34074, Italy
Date of Web Publication
24-Jun-2010
Correspondence Address:
Claudio Bianchi
Center for the Study of Environmental Cancer-Italian League against Cancer, Monfalcone […]
Worker wins asbestos-linked compensation claim
Thursday, June 24th, 2010Quoted from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/06/24/2935568.htm
Worker wins asbestos-linked compensation claim
By Megan Lewis
Posted Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:24am AEST
A central Queensland man has made a successful claim against his former employer’s insurer after being diagnosed with terminal asbestos-linked cancer.
Rockhampton resident Ian Hutcheon, 74, says he was exposed to asbestos fibre during the four years he worked at the former […]
Asbestos caused death of engineer
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Quoted from http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/8220951.Asbestos_caused_death_of_engineer/
Asbestos caused death of engineer
9:15am Wednesday 16th June 2010
TRIBUTES have been paid to an engineer who contracted the terminal illness mesothelioma after coming into contact with asbestos.
Keith Rawlinson, aged 64, from Horwich, died on Christmas Day last year in Bolton Hospice, an inquest heard.
He worked for British Leyland for 20 years where, for […]
Suit alleges woman contracted mesothelioma by washing family’s work clothes
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010Quoted from http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/227349-suit-alleges-woman-contracted-mesothelioma-by-washing-familys-work-clothes
Suit alleges woman contracted mesothelioma by washing family’s work clothes
6/7/2010 11:29 AM
By Michelle Massey, East Texas Bureau
TYLER-After years of cleaning the asbestos-containing clothes of her father, husband, and son, Claudia Headley was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma and died from the disease on May 30, 2008.
Claudia’s husband Robert and her sons Scott and Steven […]
Mechanic wins landmark legal case against James Hardie
Monday, June 7th, 2010Quoted from http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/brakes-on-asbestos-20100605-xlqz.html
Brakes on asbestos
MATTHEW BENNS
June 6, 2010
“I never, ever saw a warning”… John Booth. Photo: Steve Holland
A MECHANIC who spent his career working on asbestos brake linings has won a landmark legal case against manufacturer James Hardie after being diagnosed with mesothelioma.
John Booth, 73, told the NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal the disease left him […]
For asbestos-ravaged town, questions persist
Monday, May 24th, 2010Quoted from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011938889_apusasbestostown.html
For asbestos-ravaged town, questions persist
By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press Writer
LIBBY, Mont. —
Gayla Benefield and Eva Thomson are sisters who have grown used to death. For two decades, they have watched asbestos from a nearby vermiculite mine strangle their parents, Thomson’s husband, an aunt, several in-laws and numerous neighbors and friends.
So as they wandered the […]
