Mesothelioma News

By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 7:01pm BST April 10, 2008
The use of asbestos half a century ago has triggered an epidemic that will kill 200,000 people in Britain through lung cancer and mesothelioma, an untreatable cancer of the mesothelium, a thin membrane that lines the chest.
The disease can develop up to 60 years after […]

January 15, 2008: 09:01 AM EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc.’s (NYSE:PRX) proprietary products division said Tuesday it has acquired the exclusive licensing and commercialization rights to Onconase from Alfacell Corp. (NASDAQ:ACEL)
Onconase is a drug used in the treatment of inoperable malignant mesothelioma currently in Phase […]

If you worked at one of the old vermiculite ore processing plants in downtown Salt Lake City, call the Utah Department of Health at 538-6191. Your life may depend on it.
    And while you’re on the phone, tell them “Thanks a lot.” Say it sarcastically.
    The health department has known for at least six years […]

By Jeremy Small

A GROUP offering support to sufferers of asbestos exposure in York has condemned a decision to block the NHS dispensing a drug to treat the condition.
A document published by the National Institute For Clinical Excellence (NICE) - which provides guidance on treating ill-health - said it did not recommend pemetrexed disodium (Alimta) as […]

SACLAY, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CISBIO, a developer and marketer of diagnostic assays for the
quantification of tumor markers, announced that the MESOMARK®
Assay, the world’s first in vitro test
for managing patients with mesothelioma, an aggressive and deadly form
[…]

by Pat Martin Member of Parliament, Winnipeg Centre, Canada
Canada is a progressive, modern western democracy with an admirable commitment to equality, human rights and
social justice. Having said that, I hang my head in shame that Canada continues to be one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of asbestos - the greatest industrial hazard […]

by Gopal Krishna, Coordinator Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI)
Although the Supreme Court of India has ruled that the Government of India must comply with International Labour Organization OLO) resolutions, our Government has chosen to ignore the ILO resolution (June 14,2006) stating “the elimination of the future use of asbestos and the identification and proper […]

by Engineer Fernanda Giannasi, Coordinator of Latin American Virtual Ban Asbestos Network, Founding Member of Brazilian Association of Asbestos-Exposed Victims (ABREA)
At the COP1 discussions (2004) on the inclusion of chrysotile on the PIC list,
there was a deafening silence from the Brazilian delegation, despite a public
commitment given by the (Brazilian) Environment […]

by Dr. Barry I. Castleman, Environmental Consultant
Around the world, when public health workers call for national bans on asbestos, one of the things they hear from the local asbestos industry is that the U.S. has not banned asbestos. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued regulations to phase out the use of almost all asbestos […]

by Dr. Jim Brophy, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers, Sarnia, Canada
According to the International Labour Organization (lLO) over 2 million workers die each year of occupational causes. Over 75% of these preventable deaths are due to work- related disease. Shockingly 10% of these fatalities occur among children. Cancer represents the single largest […]