Blog Posts in June, 2011
Posted on Jun 30, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The World Health Organization (WHO) published a study in Respirology recently in which it cautioned Asian policymakers of the potentially catastrophic effects of asbestos exposure in their ...
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Posted on Jun 28, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The University of Hawaii announced last week that its Cancer Center received an anonymous $3.6 million grant designed to ensure the UH Cancer Center's role as the world's preeminent research center ...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Representatives of the world's nations met in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month to finalize the provisions of the United Nations treaty known as the Rotterdam Convention. The Convention ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Bob Knapp, a commercial real estate developer in Des Moines, Iowa, who pled guilty to two charges of conspiracy to ignore federal asbestos regulations in February, was sentenced earlier this week to ...
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Posted on Jun 23, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Alton, Illinois, isn't just a suburb of St. Louis. It's the hometown of jazz great Miles Davis, the sight of the final Lincoln-Douglas debate, and the birthplace of Robert Wadlow, the world's tallest ...
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Posted on Jun 21, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Jeffrey Pandocchi, an asbestosis patient in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, filed a complaint last month against 103 defendants in which he claimed that they were responsible for producing the asbestos or ...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2011 By Bryan Fears
In 2009, the U.S. government declared the town of Libby, Montana, the nation's first national public health emergency. For years, Libby's infamous asbestos mine owned by W.R. Grace spewed aerosolized ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced recently that asbestos patients in Montana would be eligible for a number of additional health benefits courtesy of a new pilot program ...
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Posted on Jun 16, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Asbestos has put Panama City, Florida's City Commissioners in a rock-and-a-hard place decision: save a landmark to the city's past or invest in the city's future. It's a dilemma made inescapable by ...
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Posted on Jun 14, 2011 By Bryan Fears
For residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Joplin, Missouri, the tornado is gone, but the rubble remains. In Tuscaloosa, for instance, the EF-4 tornado that damaged 7,000 buildings and tore a 5.9-mile ...
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Posted on Jun 13, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced last weekend that asbestos-related lung diseases – such as mesothelioma, asbestosis and lung cancer – are expected to rise sharply in Asia during the next ...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Recent judicial decisions in Missouri have shed light on an important state statute that provides an effective avenue of redress for workers who experience a variety of occupational injuries, ...
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Posted on Jun 9, 2011 By Bryan Fears
In August 2007, a fire engulfed the 17 th floor of the Deutsche Bank building in New York City. By the time firefighters got the blaze under control, the inferno had raged for more than six hours, ...
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Posted on Jun 7, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Combination therapy – specifically, the combination of lung-sparing surgery and photodynamic therapy (PDT) – may be the medical miracle which thousands of asbestos victims and mesothelioma patients ...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Think that dumping asbestos-contaminated construction materials in violation of the Clean Water Act isn’t a big deal? Think again. As Dominic Mazza, both as an individual and the owner of Mazza & ...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Residents of Sweet Home, Oregon, are irate with a local developer, Dan Desler, 67, for conducting improper demolition and, furthermore, failing to provide local residents with notice of the ...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intervened in the Camden, New Jersey community last week, removing over four hundred containers of hazardous material, including extensive amounts of ...
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