Many people believe that the declining use of asbestos in the United States means that mesothelioma is not a disease of the ...
As if a mesothelioma diagnosis isn’t stressful enough, patients diagnosed with the rare and fatal asbestos-related disease ...
When the head of an Illinois-based asbestos abatement company falsely certified that a property he’d contracted to work on was clean, the contaminated material he left behind posed a significant risk ...
While immunotherapy has been increasingly used to treat mesothelioma in the United States, other countries have been slower to adopt the innovative treatment. A study from oncologists at Geetanjali ...
Mesothelioma is extremely difficult to diagnose, and a missed diagnosis can lead to deadly delays in treatment. But just as it’s important to correctly and quickly identify the rare, asbestos-related ...
Though talc companies continue to push back against claims that their products cause mesothelioma, victims continue to file lawsuits and continue winning in court. In the case of a California man ...
Mesothelioma widow Linda Horton has won a second victory over General Electric, this time from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The appellate judges affirmed a lower court’s decision ...
In addition to being one of the most challenging cancers to treat, mesothelioma is one of the hardest cancers to catch early. It can take 40 or more years after asbestos exposure for symptoms like ...
A mesothelioma diagnosis forces families to make serious decisions quickly, often using information they found online. You are entitled to know who stands behind what you are reading. Our advisory ...
Mesothelioma victims who’ve filed claims tied to long-ago exposure to asbestos in Libby, Montana, are facing a new challenge as a federal court is being asked to decide whether BNSF Railway ever had ...
Earlier this year, a unanimous ruling by Maryland’s Supreme Court made a significant difference for mesothelioma victims whose illness was caused by secondary asbestos exposure. The court eliminated a ...
For years, health officials have tracked lung cancer, mesothelioma, lymphoma, and leukemia deaths from Sept. 11-related illnesses, which now account for more deaths than the attacks themselves. While ...