Quaker Chemical settled with an insurance company and agreed to pay part of the costs “in connection with asbestos bodily injury claims” according to the Associated Press. Part of the long shake-out of the tragic asbestos legacy.
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Eli Lilly released a press release last week reporting on data from experience of Alimta treatment of mesothelioma. Now that the medicine has been on the market and available to a large portion of patients for a couple years, there is good evidence that it helps extended life expectancies. Lilly has also applied for European
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No details, but a report out of Britain about two “first degree” relatives being diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma at more or less the same time. Sad, but a too-often occurance. Asbestos is either in the home or is brought home by someone from the workplace.
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More on that French cruise liner, the Blue Lady. A high court in India finally gave permission for the ship to be dismantled. This ship has been roaming the seas looking for a resting place. The hazards posed by asbestos and other toxic materials have caused much concern. Bangladeshi authorities turned the ship away, and
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Almost 6 years after the terrorist attacks, lower Manhattan has recovered somewhat; Building 7 of the WTC was rebuilt, plans are underway for more buildings, and over 15,000 people have moved into the area in recent years. However, the legacy of asbestos remains. The Deutsche Bank was damaged back in Sept 2001 and has never
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Scientists in Australia found that the high concentrations of mesothelin in pleural effusions and peritoneal effusions are a marker for mesothelioma. This may help doctors develop better methods for diagnosis of mesothelioma. Diagnosis has always been difficult because the early symptoms (pleural effusions) can be due to many conditions.
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New prize for cancer research. Researchers submit their ideas and fill out an application. The judges award $1 million to the winner for personal use. All member ideas become public. They are calling this The Gotham Prize and are planning to give it once a year, starting in February 2008. The idea of monetary prizes
The field of cancer treatment includes many promising area and paths for possible advances. Angiogenesis, kinase inhibitors, tomotherapy, proton therapy, and more. One exciting area is the development of vaccines to prevent cancer. Researchers around the world are making advances and are in animal trials. It might be several years before we get any human
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Yesterday’s New York Times had an article on chemotherapy fog – the intellectual deficit associated with chemotherapy. Memory loss and difficulty concentrating are well known as side effects. Communities of cancer patients are full of talk about the phenomena and the Journal of Biology reported that 80% of chemotherapy patients experience some sort of “chemo
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There’s always a temptation for regulators and policy-makers and their advisors to take money from the very interests they are regulating/overseeing/legislating. It recently came out that the epidemiologist Richard Doll, who famously established the link between smoking and cancer, was a paid consultant to the chemical industry, even when he was conducting a government study
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